Historical Biography – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 9

Martha Saxton,
The Conversions of Edward Gibbon

A new feminist biography of the incomparably influential English historian Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . The Enlightenment-era, six-volume epic The His…

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Kevin Jackson
Legion: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Lawrence of Arabia

There have been literally hundreds of books about T. E. Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia, but never a work quite like Legion.Legion tells the astonishing life story of an man who was far more th…

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Claire McCardell

Named one ofThe New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2025T he riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you've never heard of.Claire McCardell forever changed fas…

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Deborah Lutz
This Dark Night

Emily Brontë (1818-48) was only twenty-seven years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Wuthering Heights …

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Megan Hoyt,
Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero

This 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist by author Megan Hoyt and illustrator Iacopo Bruno brings to light the inspiring, true story of Gino Bartali, a beloved Italian cyclist and secret champion in …

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Annie Thoms
with their eyes

Commemorating twenty years, this deeply moving play, written by high school students who witnessed the tragedy unfold, remembers September 11, 2001 . This edition features new cover art, an updated introd…

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Rose Mary Wood
Chronicles of Cass County, Michigan

Along the Indiana border in Southwest Michigan lies Cass County, a place rich in historical significance.Nearly one thousand freedom seekers traveled through the area on their way to Canada. The first ren…

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Louis DeCaro Jr
John Brown

This is the first book with a full biographical scope on Brown's life, not just his controversial Harper's Ferry raid of 1859.John Brown: A Reference Guide to His Life and Worksis an overview of Brown's l…

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Michael Gross
Flight of the Wasp

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history.For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico h…

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Nancy K Williams
Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous TerritoryHollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver and …

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Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
American Prometheus

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself…

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Boncompagni Ludovisi (1856-1935), Ugo,
The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility

The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobilityis an intimate look at an ancient papal family who grew up accustomed to almost unimaginable wealth, power, and glamour. A tender elegy to a bygone era, this book offe…

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Boncompagni Ludovisi (1856-1935), Ugo,
The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility

The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobilityis an intimate look at an ancient papal family who grew up accustomed to almost unimaginable wealth, power, and glamour. A tender elegy to a bygone era, this book offe…

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Egon Bahr
»Das musst du erzählen«

List bei Ullstein - Band 61220

Auf dem Sterbebett von seinem Sohn Lars gefragt, wer seine Freunde gewesen seien, antwortete Willy Brandt: >>Egon.<< Tatsächlich war Egon Bahr jahrzehntelang Brandts engster politischer und pe…

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Yvonne Clark-Rhines, Monica Clark-Robinson,
Teaching for Change

This powerful picture book biography spotlights Septima Poinsette Clark, the civil rights leader who taught Black adults how to combat Jim Crow-era voting regulations. Written by Septima's granddaughter, …

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Daniel Huhn,
I Will Come Back for You

A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and an against-all-odds reunion.

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Diane Glancy
Lazarus

This hybrid biography of the enigmatic historical figure extends narrative convention to consider the story behind Lazarus's silent life and what we may draw from it.Lazarus, the odd ball. The odd man out…

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Sylvio J. Godon,
Ich bin ein Pole. Jestem Polakiem.

In Warschau unter der Militärregierung entdeckt ein junger deutscher Student den wahren Puls Polens. Durch die Augen von Sylvio J. Godon erleben wir den Alltag zwischen Ausgangssperren und Lebensmittelkar…

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Daniel Ehrlich
The Nylon Hotel

A brilliantly entertaining collection of character studies, written with warmth and humour, that reflect the changing fortunes of Burmese life. All friends of Burma will find this book hugely. Entertainin…

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Joyce E Chaplin
The Franklin Stove

A Washington PostNoteworthy Book One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of the Year So Far "[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." -The New Yorker "F…

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