Biography & Autobiography - Historical

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Sword and Blossom: A British Officer'...

Peter Pagnamenta

In 1904, when thirty-four-year-old British Army captain Arthur Hart-Synnot was sent to Japan to learn the language of his country's new ally, romance was the furthest thing from his mind. At least five generations of the Hart family h...

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Published: May 2007

Alicia

Alicia Appleman-Jurman

After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank ...

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Published: Dec 1989

The Last Days of Richard III and the ...

John Ashdown-Hill

A fully revised and expanded edition includes the discoveries of the Leicester dig, Richard III's burial location, and the DNA results of the skeleton found A uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days details these ...

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Published: Apr 2013

Romanovs

Robert K. Massie

MASTERFUL.'--The Washington Post Book World'RIVETING . . . UNFOLDS LIKE A DETECTIVE STORY.'--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from...

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Published: Oct 1996

Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Anto...

Susan Nagel

The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women—Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution.Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention ...

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Published: Aug 2009

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marria...

Phyllis Rose

In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.

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Published: Oct 1984

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life ...

Janet Wallach

Turning away from the privileged world of the 'eminent Victorians,' Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in...

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Published: Jul 2005

Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the ...

Jean-Vincent Blanchard

DIVChief Minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. One of the first statesmen to clearly understand the nec...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Lo...

Susan Bordo

"Bordo's sharp reading of Boleyniana and her clear affection for this proud, unusual woman make this an entertaining, provocative read."—Boston Globe Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is ...

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Published: Apr 2014

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

Catherine Clinton

Every schoolchild knows of Harriet Tubman's heroic escape and resistance to slavery.But few readers are aware that Tubman went on to be a scout, a spy, and a nurse for the Union Army, because there has never before been a serious biog...

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Published: Jan 2005

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, ...

Jane Dunn

The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books ha...

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Published: Dec 2004

When Normal Blew Up: The Story of the...

Joni Foster

In 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old-fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter in the back. He shouted for everyone to leave, he had a bomb. The s...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Diary of Petr Ginz

Petr Ginz

Not since Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, ...

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Published: Sep 2008

Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-R...

Lucinda Hawksley

Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed biography of the Pre-Raphaelite artists' museThe supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model...

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Published: May 2014

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six W...

Lucy Moore

The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous, freethinking women of the era—women who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Libe...

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Published: Jun 2008

The Travels of Marco Polo

Marco Polo

One of the ten best adventure books of all time (National Geographic Adventure). Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. Working from the traditional lyr...

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Published: Oct 2003

Waco: A Survivor's Story

David Thibodeau

The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch--Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.Twenty-five years ag...

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Published: Mar 2018

John Quincy Adams

Harlow Giles Unger

He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supr...

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Published: Aug 2013

Queen Victoria's Children

John Van der Kiste

Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who, despite their very different characters remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and thei...

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Published: Jun 2010

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

David Starkey

No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study, David Starkey argues that the king wa...

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Published: May 2004

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Antonia Fraser

France's beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and specula...

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Published: Nov 2002

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Rea...

Fiona Carnarvon

A lively follow-up to Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story of Catherine Wendell, the beautiful woman who married the 6th Earl of Carnarvon and presided over Highc...

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Published: Oct 2013

Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the In...

Julia Fox

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry's ruthless and absolute power, including her own...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign o...

Nancy Goldstone

The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial-and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle A ges. On March 15, 1348, Joanna I , Queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the Pope and his court in...

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Published: Oct 2010

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious...

Mark Kurlansky

While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds ...

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Published: Feb 2013

Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton S...

Jehanne Wake

As gripping as the best historical novel, Sisters of Fortune is the story of the exuberant Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the American sisters who enthralled the highest levels of English Regency society decades before the n...

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Published: Feb 2012

Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

Anthony Everitt

Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis," is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. InHadrian and the...

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Published: Sep 2010

Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of t...

Miep Gies

She found the diary and brought the world a message of love and hope.It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts....Yours, AnneFor the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astoni...

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Published: Feb 2009

The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Ita...

Elizabeth Lev

Wife, mother, leader, warrior. Caterina Riario Sforza was one of the most prominent women in Renaissance Italy—and one of the most vilified. In this glittering biography, Elizabeth Lev reexamines her extraordinary life and accompli...

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Published: Oct 2012

Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban E...

Mirta Ojito

A New York Times reporter recounts her childhood in Cuba before the events of the Mariel boatlift rendered her a teenage refugee in Miami, describing the Cuban revolution, the beliefs about el norte that prompted her family’s im...

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Published: Apr 2006
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