Best Historical Biographies Of All Time - April 2024

It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!

"It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you. "Dan Brown, Author of Reunion Alabama, 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world .Everybody loves her.In 2012, she's still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers. Veronica "Ronni" Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facili... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0578448831
• ASIN: 0578448831
• ISBN: 0578448831
• Manufacturer: The Art of Dixie

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

“The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation. In Ghost Soldiers Hampt... [Read More]

• ASIN: 038549565X
• ASIN: 038549565X
• ISBN: 038549565X
• Brand: Anchor
• Manufacturer: Anchor

We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
• ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy

Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe. She was assigned to France, where she helped the Resistance movement, escaped prisoners of war, and American Allied paratroopers. By 1942 she was considered so dangerous to the Gestapo that she had to escape over the Pyrenees mountains―on an artificial leg, no less. When she got to England, she was reassigned to France by the OSS, disguised as an old peasant woman. She helped capture 500... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159921072X
• UPC: 884203109865
• ASIN: 159921072X
• ISBN: 159921072X
• Brand: Lyons Press
• Manufacturer: Lyons Press

Educated: A Memoir

• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail” (The Wall Street Journal), the “intimate and sweeping” (Raleigh News & Observer) untold, true story behind the Biltmore Estate—the largest, grandest private residence in North America, which has seen more than 120 years of history pass by its front door.The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Teddy Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent, Jam... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476794057
• ASIN: 1476794057
• ISBN: 1476794057
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival)

A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller! — What happened that night on Dead Mountain?The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the mountain climbing incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1452140030
• ASIN: 1452140030
• ISBN: 1452140030
• Brand: Chronicle
• Size: N/A
• Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call to social services about the escalating brutality in her home.When they jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home, and she risks losing the support of family, coming to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved.Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, trium... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0615835600
• ASIN: 0615835600
• ISBN: 0615835600
• Manufacturer: K.L Randis

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts.  Frankopan re... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101912375
• ASIN: 1101912375
• ISBN: 1101912375
• Brand: VINTAGE
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Robin

• ASIN: 1627794247
• ASIN: 1627794247
• ISBN: 1627794247
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

• ASIN: B01G1K1RTA
• ASIN: B01G1K1RTA
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

#1 International BestsellerRegina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, former New York State official, and foster youth activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons. A true-life rags-to-riches story, Etched in Sand chronicles Regina’s ris... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062218832
• ASIN: 0062218832
• ISBN: 0062218832
• Brand: Brand: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307409600
• ASIN: 0307409600
• ISBN: 9780307409607
• Brand: Crown
• Manufacturer: Crown

The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II

The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian farmers and peasants risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers while they waited for rescue, and in 1944, Operation Halyard was born. The risks were incredible. The starving Americans in Yugoslavia had to construct a landing strip large enough for C-47 cargo plane... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451224957
• UPC: 783324820270
• ASIN: 0451224957
• ISBN: 0451224957
• Brand: Nal Caliber
• Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

The Life We Bury

A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
• ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
• Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

Heroes for All Times : A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #51: High Time for Heroes

"A nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #49: Stallion by

• UPC: 193172029

The Most Famous Entrepreneurs of All Time - Biography Book 3rd Grade Children's Biographies

Yes, your child can dream and with hardwork, those dreams can turn into reality. Deliver the stories of these famous entrepreneurs to tickle the interest and push dreams forward. Reading about the story of how

• UPC: 421468261

Heroes for All Times : A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #23: High Time for Heroes

Jack and Annie learn amazing facts about six history-changing individuals, including Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Muir, Florence Nightingale ,and Harriet

• UPC: 24244546

An Historical Dictionary of All Religions from the Creation of the World to This Present Time. ... Compiled from the Best Authorities, by Thomas Broughton, ... of 2; Volume 2

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated

• UPC: 222405630

Sherlock Holmes: The Collection - eBook

This NEW and EXPANDED Multimedia Edition contains:a new introductionlinks to free audiobooksan in-depth biography of the authorseveral HTML tables of contentshigh quality layoutsFor more detailed information, please read the “EXPANDED MULTIMEDIA EDITION” section at the

• UPC: 731580753

A Time to Risk All - eBook

Clodagh Finn has travelled throughout Europe to piece together the story of this remarkable, unknown Irish woman, meeting many of those children Mary Elmes saved. Here, in a book packed with courage, heroism, adventure and

• UPC: 583971200

The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time, Michael Shapiro

Eminently readable, informative, and entertaining, "The Jewish 100" ranks the most influential Jews of all time, with biographies of each person and the reason for his or her ranking. The influence of these men and

• UPC: 628890167
• Rating: 5.0

An Historical Dictionary of All Religions from the Creation of the World to This Present Time. ... Compiled from the Best Authorities, by Thomas Broughton, ... Volume 1 of 2

An Historical Dictionary of All Religions from the Creation of the World to This Present Time. ... Compiled from the Best Authorities, by Thomas

• UPC: 671850176

The Celebrity 411 : Spotlight on All Time Low, Including Their Performances in Music Festivals, Best Selling Albums Such as the Party Scene, Nothing Personal, Famous Hit Singles, Associated Acts, and More

The Celebrity 411: Spotlight on All Time Low, Including Their Performances in Music Festivals, Best Selling Albums Such as the Party

• UPC: 53542197

Captain Bartholomew Roberts, a Pirate's Journal : The Most Successful Pirate of All Time!

Why I became a pyrate: My life, and them reasons for becoming a pyrate hath bin a subject of much controversy. However, me person in particular, who, after examining the events logically, concludes, considering the

• UPC: 53025448

THE BEST OF ALL TIME HORROR CLASSICS CHRISTOPHER LEE AS NEW RARE PAL VHS VIDEO

• UPC: 123684720004
• Category: VHS Tapes
• Price: 5 AUD