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Fanny Burney's work, 'Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from Her Diary and Other Writings,' provides readers with an insightful glimpse into the author's personal life and relationships ……続きを見る

Henry Clay Bruce's 'The New Man: Twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man' is a powerful memoir that sheds light on the harsh realities of slavery and the journey to freedom. Written ……続きを見る

James Boswell's 'Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica' offers a unique insight into the life and mindset of the renowned Scottish biograp……続きを見る

Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden a……続きを見る

Unleash Your Inner Conqueror: Journey into the Epic Legacy of Alexander the Great! Are you ready to embark on an unforgettable odyssey through the annals of history, led by the indomitable spirit of……続きを見る

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classicーa powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament t……続きを見る

Early in my military career, I set out to become a White House Fellow. This book tells the story of my journey to achieve that goal. Along the way, I served as Administrative Assistant to General of……続きを見る

New York Times Best Seller Over 5 million copies sold For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-……続きを見る

Dumas who was born in the year 1762 in the Saint-Domingue French sugar colony, modern day Haiti. His father, Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, was a French nobleman who became a marquis. Aft……続きを見る

Who was Tse Tsan Tai? Insurrectionist? Socialite? Patriot? Revolutionary? Born and raised in Australia and trained in Anglo-Hong Kong’s civil service, Tse Tsan Tai (1872–1938) was all of these and m……続きを見る

臺灣人袂當放袂記的正義佮勇氣； 二二八受難人權律師── 湯徳章勇敢悲壯的一生。 臺灣第一本「臺文本位」漫畫！ 隨書附贈：華文翻譯本 「臺灣人，萬歲！」 這是湯徳章律師， 在槍決前，用日文大聲吶喊的遺言。 過去……続きを見る

The man of science who wanted nothing more from the world except peace, Einstein in his short life won the heart of not only the academia circuit but also of many women around the world. This book r……続きを見る

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker's best books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of……続きを見る

The sixty-year reign of George III (1760–1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history: the ending of the Seven Years’ War with France, the American Wa……続きを見る

本書收錄詞學家趙叔雍就其生平觀察，及與眾多民初名士交遊的過往，所留下的數篇珍貴文章，每篇文章均極具史料珍藏價值。內容包含：國劇大師齊如山於台病故時，詳載其生平的悼念文，以及劇藝大師梅蘭芳生活、戲劇、……続きを見る

While researching family genealogy, I was surprised to learn that my wife is related to Major General George Armstrong Custer, Major General Galusha Pennypacker, Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, and ……続きを見る

Most people know that Christmas is when we celebrate Jesus' birthday…even if he wasn't actually born at Christmas. But what about the other start of the Advent season? Jolly Old Saint Nick (AKA Sant……続きを見る

Um Estadista do Império é a terceira publicação da Coleção Joaquim Nabuco. Apresentada em 5 volumes, com a obra, além da biografia de seu pai, José Tomás Nabuco de Araújo, que viveu de 1813 a 1878 e……続きを見る

'Thoroughly researched… brings superbly to life figures whom history should not have forgotten.' - Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'A highly readable, enjoyable and informative book.' - John McTernan,……続きを見る

Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers is the firsthand account of British/American colonial frontiersman, major Robert Rogers. In his diary Rogers covers the period from 1755 until 1761 during wh……続きを見る

While recently researching the rumored marriage of a Scots-Irish Immigrant by the name of David Kennedy, Sr. to a Native American woman in colonial Pennsylvania in the early-1700s, I uncovered a dar……続きを見る

As I was researching the Fleming branch of my family tree, I learned that Janet Stewart (my 15th great-grandmother) was the daughter of King James IV of Scotland and wife of Lord Malcolm Fleming. I ……続きを見る

This book is devoted to the career of a well-known officer of the Continental army and a personal friend of George Washington's, Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge of the Second Regiment Light Dragoons. The……続きを見る

Colonel Alexander McKee was a colonial British Indian agent who preferred to remain loyal to the government which had long employed him when the colonies decided to sever connections with the mother……続きを見る

The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titl……続きを見る

"These records are taken from a diary kept during my service in the Confederate Army, under Generals Morgan and Bedford Forrest, and are, therefore, simply my personal experiences and recollections.……続きを見る

D. Leopoldina, Imperatriz e Maria do Brasil, de autoria de José Theodoro Mascarenhas Menck, é uma obra comemorativa do Bicentenário da Independência e dos 200 anos da vinda de D. Leopoldina para o B……続きを見る

For four years in the 1970s, the people of Cambodia endured a nightmarish era of brutality that left millions dead, and its survivors still wounded from the trauma they endured. Based on a series of……続きを見る

Das Leben von der Königin Luise war untrennbar mit dem Kampf Preußens gegen Napoleon verbunden. Dieses Buch erzählt über das Schicksal von Königin Luise nicht nur als Frau von Friedrich Wilhelm III,……続きを見る

The Chechen War was supposed to be over in 1996 after the first Yeltsin campaign, but in the summer of 1999, the new Putin government decided, in their own words, to 'do the job properly'. Before al……続きを見る