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A Testament To Giuseppe Garibaldi. This book is your ultimate resource for Giuseppe Garibaldi. Here you will find the most up-to-date 163 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Giuseppe...

A biography of one of the greatest naval heroes of World War II.   This is the first biography of Cpt. Robert Ryder VC, Royal Navy, one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Nazaire in March 1942, which completely destroyed the port’s dry dock—depriving...

A breath of fresh Rabindranath Tagore air. This book is your ultimate resource for Rabindranath Tagore. Here you will find the most up-to-date 213 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Biographies, , language: English, abstract: During World War I a wealthy British woman, having already published three books, trains as a nurse and while serving in France meets a soldier whom she marries in 1919. After some time she...

This extraordinary new biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O’Neill’s tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling innovatively recounts O’Neill’s life in four acts, thus highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave...

"The great virtue of McCormick's memoirs is their blunt honesty. He writes with a persuasive directness about what happened to him and what he believes..."--Arts and Letters The title of John McCormick's autobiographical book, may be taken both literally and symbolically. In a literal...

Famous for setting in motion the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther is often lifted high as a hero or condemned as a rebel. But underneath it all, he was a man of flesh and blood, with a deep longing to live for God. This biography by respected Reformation scholar Herman Selderhuis captures...

The book is a collection of essays that examine the biography as a source for historical information. Further, the biographies include those of people `in the middle merchants, writers, religious leaders and marginalized groups such as actresses, and other women.

Helen Keller, an extraordinary human being who fought for the disabled and handicapped people. It's amazing how Helen Keller was able to overcome her extreme limitations due to blindness and deafness, especially during the time where there was not much support for the disabled people. Helen did not...

Woodrow Wilson’s presidential campaign in 1912 marked the beginning of a remarkable personal and political collaboration between Wilson and Colonel Edward M. House. The book traces the complexities of Wilson’s life and career along with his relationship with House, who for almost a decade was...

An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official versions. Michael Riordon has thirty years’ experience as a writer and broadcaster...

Takes A Fresh Look At Jonathan Edwards. 'Jonathan Edwards' might allude to: This book is your ultimate resource for Jonathan Edwards. Here you will find the most up-to-date 166 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to...

This is the amazing untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement's champion, Father Luis Olivares (1934–1993), a Catholic priest and a charismatic, faith-driven leader for social justice. Beginning in 1980 and continuing for most of the decade, hundreds of thousands of Salvadoran and Guatemalan...

At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis - and no one knew why. On 30 September 1950, a young physician named Richard Doll concluded in a research paper that smoking cigarettes...