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''Those Devils in Baggy Pants'' is a renowned World War II memoir written by Ross S. Carter, an elite paratrooper in the United States military. Originally published in 1951, the book delivers a raw, firsthand account of frontline combat across Europe. It is widely...
"U-505" is a gripping non-fiction book written by Rear Admiral Daniel Vincent Gallery, detailing the extraordinary and highly classified capture of the German submarine U-505 on June 4, 1944. Daniel V. Gallery, then a U.S. Navy Captain, commanded Task Group 22.3—a...
''Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941–1945'' is a historic 1954 war memoir written by Mochitsura Hashimoto, a former Lieutenant Commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy. As one of only four surviving Japanese submarine captains from the war, Hashimoto...
''Notes from the Gallows'' (Czech: Reportáž psaná na oprátce) is a harrowing prison memoir by Czech journalist and anti-Nazi resistance leader Julius Fucík. Written in 1942 while detained in Prague's Pankrác Prison, the text was secretly penciled on scraps of cigarette...
''Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History'' is a landmark biography by Robert E. Sherwood that chronicles the unique partnership between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his closest advisor, Harry Hopkins. The book won the1949 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or...
Colonel Edmund W. Starling joined the White House Secret Service Detail during Woodrow Wilson’s first term and remained through Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third. His record as personal bodyguard to Wilson won him the position as head of the Detail, and in that capacity he...
''The Song of Bernadette'' was written by Franz Viktor Werfel (1890-1945) and translated by Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955), now in the public domain outside of the USA. It tells the famous story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 reported...
Babur was a descendant of both Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, combining nomadic warrior traditions with his twenty-year fight to retain power in Central Asia, his move to Kabul, and his strategic, hard-won battles that established the empire in India. It provides a...
The emperor's personality is brought to life against a background rich with the varied cultures he united through Christianity. Out of the lowering darkness of devil-ridden, pagan Europe in the Middle Ages emerges the towering figure of Charlemagne, the King-Warrior who...
The story of Genghis Khan. What is the mystery that surrounds Genghis Khan? More gigantic in historical literature than Alexander the Great, the Caesars, Napoleon, or Hitler... 750 years ago, Genghis Khan, the great Mongolian warlord conquered half the world. A nomad, a...
Aimee Crocker (1863-1941) was an heiress to gold and railroad fortunes and a daughter of Judge Edwin B. Crocker (1818-1875), legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, Justice of the California Supreme Court in 1865 and founder of the Crocker Art Museum, the...
The Road to Mayerling: Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria by Richard Barkley is a thought-provoking non-fiction historical book that explores the life and the tragic murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Marie von...
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: 1874-1920: Years of Adventure is the first volume of the former President's autobiography, published in 1951, detailing his early life, rise as a world-renowned mining engineer, and pivotal role in international relief efforts during and...
Winifred Fortescue was born in Suffolk in 1888. At the age of 17 she decided to help the family's ailing resources by taking a career on the stage, and starred in a number of productions. In 1914 she married John Fortescue, the King's Librarian and Archivist, and in...
The Golden Ham, first published in 1956, recounts the career of entertainer and comedian Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) from his beginnings in show-business to the mid-1950s when he was at the peak of his early success withThe Honeymooners. In his foreword, author Jim...
Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official living in Cuba. As a young girl she was sent to school in New Orleans, where she ran away and married a U.S. Army officer. After the outbreak of the war, she persuaded her husband to renounce his commission...
Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a...
"Heaven Lies About Us" recounts Spring's childhood in Cardiff during the closing years of the 19th century. He grew up in an impoverished but loving family and left school at age 12 to support them after his father's death. The path of a writer: Spring's memoir...
Here is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of the most stimulating and well-loved writers of the 20th century. His...
First published in 1930. A charming memoir of the high Victorian-into-Edwardian epoch. Benson writes from the perspective of the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury, moving in elite circles since his adolescence, and also his successful career as a novelist. He aims to...
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