Historical Biography – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 6

Martha R. Lang
Historical Family Memoirs

Historical Family Memoirs is a collection of fascinating historical stories about Vermont and Cape Cod from the mid-1700's to the mid-1950's. This book includes events of significant historical importance…

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Sami Moubayed, Fakhri Al-Barudi
The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri Al-Barudi

Syria's tumultuous twentieth century through the life of a central figure in Syrian politicsBorn into an aristocratic Damascene family in 1889, Fakhri al-Barudi was a household name in Syria, universally …

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Ian Fleming
The Diamond Smugglers

THE TRUE STORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME RING AND ITS DOWNFALLIn 1957, as the Cold War raged, Ian Fleming took a respite from writing James Bond to craft a work of nonfiction every bit as tense as a Bond …

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Elyse Graham
Book and Dagger

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency…

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Stephanie Gorton
The Icon and the Idealist

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORYA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that prof…

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Stephanie Gorton
The Icon and the Idealist

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORYA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that prof…

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Joshua D Rothman
A Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom

Descended from German Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century, Elisha Tyson was born in 1749. As a young man he became wealthy in the milling business in northeastern Maryla…

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Paul Russell
When Power Corrupts

When Power Corrupts is the remarkable true story of Paul Russell, who arrived in Africa as a young police officer during the final years of colonial rule, never imagining he would stay, let alone dedicate…

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James G. Benze
Nancy Reagan

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image l…

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James E. Sherow
The Chisholm Trail

One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw…

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Morrison's China

When George Morrison,1862-1920, was 18 years old he confided to his diary that it was his "fixed determination to do something great, 'some day'." From his origins in Geelong, Victoria, the son …

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Mari Keller Dyer
Discovering D'Arensbourg

In the early years of French Louisiana, Charles d'Arensbourg was the first commander and judge of the German Coast, the third oldest German settlement in the United States. His life in Europe has been tol…

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Guy De La Bédoyère
The Confessions of Samuel Pepys

A remarkable collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of their publication.The Diary of Samuel Pepys is the most celebrated persona…

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John D Warner
Walter Beinecke and the Reimagining of Nantucket

Following the demise of whaling in the late 1800s, the island of Nantucket fell into an economic torpor. Its population declined, and homes and local businesses fell into disrepair. In the mid-twentieth c…

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Henner Kotte
Chemnitzer Köpfe in Kunst und Literatur

Tatsachen - Band 71

Der Reichtum Sachsens wurde - so eine landläufige Sentenz - in Chemnitz erarbeitet, in Leipzig durch Handel gemehrt und in Dresden verprasst. In "Rußchamtz" stampften und schnurrten die Maschine…

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Sary Zananiri
Photographing Biblical Modernity

This open access book offers the first in-depth appraisal of the photographic archive of Frank Scholten (1881-1942), a queer Dutch photographer and Catholic convert whose work in Palestine between 1921 an…

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Claude F Mariottini
Ancient Israel's Women of Faith

Do You Know the God of Ancient Israel's Women of Faith?Believers today are facing a profound spiritual poverty--an ignorance of the women who shaped their faith and, as a result, an incomplete understandi…

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Geoffrey Rodoreda
George Orwell in Stuttgart

April 1945. Der britische Autor George Orwell kommt als Kriegsreporter in die württembergische Hauptstadt, direkt nachdem Stuttgart von den alliierten Truppen eingenommen wurde. Er dokumentiert das Chaos …

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Alexandra Stewart,
Race to the South Pole

Follow the stories of two men braving the extreme conditions of Antarctica in one historic race to reach the South Pole.

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Rosemarie Lengsfeld Turke, Garrett Turke
American Shoes

Winner of the 2023 Gold Moonbeam Children's Book Award in Non-Fiction: Chapter BookCommended as a "moving and hopeful story of courage and perseverance" in a starred review by Booklist , America…

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