Biography & Autobiography
285 books
*Non-fiction
429
John W. Arctander - Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla
This is this story of William Duncan, an English missionary, who established a colony among the Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest. He worked there from 1856 until his death in 1918 at the age of 86. — Summary...
10 hours 42 minutes
War & Military
486
Charles William Chadwick Oman - Seven Statesmen of the Later Republic
While there are many general histories of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, the Oxford historian, Charles Oman, writes that his little book is rather «a series of studies of the leading men of the century,...
11 hours 55 minutes
War & Military
511
Osmund Airy - English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded the masterly Peace of Westphalia for France, confronts the rebellions of the...
9 hours 19 minutes