Memoirs

Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art

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Thomas Carr Howe



"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of…

Six Years at the Russian Court

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Magaretta Eagar



From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…

The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777

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Nicholas Cresswell



Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take h…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 02

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne and Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne



Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." (Sum…

Brief Lives Volume II

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John Aubrey



Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664

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Samuel Pepys



Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife, difficulties with staff, power str…

Civil War Women, North And South

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Various



This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

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Ward Hill Lamon



Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

Why Crime Does Not Pay

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Sophie Lyons



The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…

Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger

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Walter Bates



Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …

Three Accounts of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton



A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

A Winter of Content

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Laura Lee Davidson



A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descri…

Confessions of Two Brothers

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John Cowper Powys



A short self portrait of Powys’ beliefs, temperament and peculiarities which prefigures his later, greater Autobiography. (Summary by Keri F…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne



Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…

Travels in Brazil, Volume 1

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Henry Koster



A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…

A Wheel Within A Wheel

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Frances E. Willard



Frances Willard was an influential campaigner and educator for social reforms, temperance and women's education, suffrage and empowerment, a…

Christmas Under Three Flags

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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox



This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, …

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story…

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Charles Todd Quintard



Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate …

The Life of John Ruskin

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William Gershom Collingwood



W. G. Collingwood became a student of John Ruskin in 1872 when he started his study in University College, Oxford. For many years he dedicat…

Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

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Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie



Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

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