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Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time i……続きを見る

In 1850 a German immigrant with an adopted name and six dollars in his pocket arrived in San Francisco. Forty years later, Henry Miller was the largest private landowner in the United States and one……続きを見る

This is the first part of the two part series on the greatest Indian thinkers 1.  B.R. Ambedkar 2.  Dr. M. VISVESVARAYA 3. Basaveshwara 4. Dayanand 5. Rammohun Roy続きを見る

Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is an iconic figure of the Beat generation. In this revealing study Phil Baker traces this cult writer's life - from the ……続きを見る

The workings of Mr. Sweet. He was an average black man who tried to survive In this world in an all white neighbor hood. 続きを見る

The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the ‘Maguire Seven’ wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA. On the night of October 5 1974, an IRA unit left bombs in tw……続きを見る

An unrivalled insight into the early life of Henry Kissinger **'**A triumph of journalistic digging, and it makes for a little gem of a book.. a magnificent story about boyhood, identity and belongi……続きを見る

“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”ーPresident Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a p……続きを見る

The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles. 'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deep……続きを見る

Adolph F. Bandelier, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Father Anton Docher are names closely associated with the early colonial days in New Mexico. All of these characters appear in this narrative of Isl……続きを見る

Guillermina Georgina Andrew-Connor was born and raised into a world where manners and moral codes dictated how the individual would act, and in some cases even think. She was expected to sacrifice ……続きを見る

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia and was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the psycholo……続きを見る

Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year. William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three o……続きを見る

This book recounts the dramatic true story of the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, martyred during the French Revolution's "Great Terror," and known to the world through their fictional repres……続きを見る

During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple ……続きを見る

Helen Keller : American Foundation for the Blind (A Short Biography for Children) American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century's le……続きを見る

First published in 1981, this is about the life of Bertrand Russell, born when Queen Victoria had nearly three decades still to reign, was one of the most influential of the twentieth century, as we……続きを見る

A gripping account of Andrew Jackson's triumphant military career by acclaimed military historian Robert Remini, winner of the National Book Award. Andrew Jackson is best known as the president who ……続きを見る

The ultimate story of escape to riches, revenge and redemption by ‘the Napoleon of storytellers’. Falsely accused of treason, Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding night and imprisoned in the gri……続きを見る

Chester Nez’s memoir was just the beginning. Here are more stories and photos from the last remaining Navajo Code Talker of World War II. After the publication of his book, Code Talker, Chester Nez ……続きを見る

In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Marine Corps’ ground campaign up the Tigris and Euphrates was notable for speed and aggressiveness unparalleled in military history. Little has been written, however,……続きを見る

Lois Nicholls is pregnant and heartbroken when she leaves her country of birth, South Africa to begin a new life in Australia with her husband and toddler. Through a series of anecdotes she provides……続きを見る

"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." ーSteve Weinberg, USA Today John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowne……続きを見る

Walking with Shadows is a book of exile and of odyssey: the incredible and moving story of a young Polish freedom fighter, Joe Tarnowski, who survived the frozen hell of the war-time Soviet Gulag to……続きを見る

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Matthew Henry (1662-1714) is highly-valued by contemporary preachers and Bible users. Here we get a closer look at the life of Matthew Henry by an author who has had a life-long interest in Matthew ……続きを見る

The Schrader Letters give a wonderful insight into the triumphs and struggles, loves and hates, quarrels and makeups, birth and deaths of the family of Dr CUD Schrader in rural NSW. Dr Schrader and ……続きを見る

Die spannende verhaal van die kommunis Bram Fischer, leier van ’n revolusionêre beweging in ’n ondergrondse komplot teen die apartheidsregering, is maar een deel van Fischer se storie. Nadat hy die ……続きを見る

When you’re at Oriole Park enjoying a soda with a tray of nachos or hot dogs... or need an apartment and want to choose from 14 apartment complexes with over 3000 units... or seek a nursing facility……続きを見る

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, s……続きを見る