Biography category: 101305 books
Defiant Joy
The Remarkable Life and Impact of G.K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
You may be aware that G. K. Chesterton authored influential Christian biographies and apologetics. But you may not know the larger-than-life Gilbert Keith Chesterton himself—not yet. Equally versed in poetry, novels, literary criticism, and journalism, he addressed politics, culture, and religion...
Ireland's Saint
The Essential Biography of St. Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Explore Patrick's place in history, the spread of Christianity beyond the Roman Empire, how Patrick first came to Ireland, the influence of the earlier Palladius on Patrick's work, political and social conditions at that time, and the spiritual battles with the Druids. This 21st century edition now...
Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life
The Definitive Short Biography of the Founding Father of Irish Republicanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
The definitive short biography of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), the founding father of Irish republicanism
Originally published in 1981 as part of the groundbreaking Gill’s Irish Lives series, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life remains the most concise, accessible and authoritative...
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
This revelatory account unveils how Stalin became Stalin, examining his shadowy journey from obscurity to power—from master historian Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Based on ten years of research, Young Stalin—companion to the prizewinning Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar—is a brilliant prehistory...
Elizabeth the Queen
The Life of a Modern Monarch
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Perfect for fans of The Crown, this magisterial biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a close-up view of the woman we’ve known only from a distance—and a captivating window into the last great monarchy.
From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at...
by MOHAMMED ABDUL HAFEEZ
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
This is a small book in which there is a biography of Hazrat Syed Shah Ismail Quadri Ghodwadi Sharif is added and in this book there are some great achievements of this great Sheikh of Deccan which are not yet known to the general persons and other persons are published in a very interesting style...
Diana
Her True Story in Her Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The sensational biography of Princess Diana, written with her cooperation and now featuring exclusive new material to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death.
When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. Greeted...
Victoria: The Queen
An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak,...
Elizabeth of York
A Tudor Queen and Her World
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Bestselling historian Alison Weir tells the poignant, suspenseful and sometimes tragic story of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Yorkist King Edward IV and sister of the Princes in the Tower, a woman whose life was inextricably caught up in the turmoil of the Wars...
Queen of Scots
The True Life of Mary Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This Whitbread Award–winning biography and basis for the film ***Mary Queen of Scots ***starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie “reads like Shakespearean drama” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
“A triumph . . . A masterpiece full of fire and tragedy.” —Amanda Foreman, author...
by MOHAMMED ABDUL HAFEEZ
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
THIS IS BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF HADRAT KHAJA USMAN HARUNI AND WHO WAS PASSED AWAY FROM THE WORLD AFTER MANY HARD TASKS AND AS WELL AS MANY MIRACLES DURING HIS LIFE PERIOD. HE WAS SPIRITUAL MASTER OF HADRAT KHAJA MOINUDDIN CHISTI OF AJMARE IN INDIA.
THIS IS VERY OLD BOOK AND FIRST PUBLISHING ON KOBE INC.
Livia, Empress of Rome
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, Matthew Dennison brings to life a woman long believed to be one of the most feared villainesses of history.
Second wife of the emperor Augustus, mother of his successor Tiberius, grandmother of...
Queen Anne
The Politics of Passion
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain’s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming...
Harry
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Prince Harry is arguably one of the most recognised faces in the world today, and over the years has attracted both criticism and praise. In his 29 years he has served on the frontline in Afghanistan and taken lives there, he has set up his own charities, undertaken his first solo tour representing his...