Frederick Douglass & Harriet Jacobs 
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [EPUB ebook] 

Union cavalryman Boston Corbett became a national celebrity after killing John Wilkes Booth, but as details of his odd personality became known, he also became the object of derision. Over time, he w …

India for Indians by Chitta Ranjan Das is a seminal work focused on the Indian independence movement and the quest for self-governance. The book delves into the themes of nationalism and political re …

In a life dedicated to studying and writing about Nazism and the Holocaust, Otto Dov Kulka has set to one side his experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, Kulka brings …

”War, superb as it is, is not necessarily a filtering process, by which men and nations may be purified. Well, there are many people to write you of the noble side, the heroic side, the exalted side …

A poignant and very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War and into the 1950s, from columnist Hunter Davies Despite the struggle to make ends meet during …

This book uses the life and work of Caffie Greene, one of the most influential grassroots community activists and public health educators in twentieth-century Los Angeles as a platform to examine the …

Although the author’s graduation from his pre-sea nautical HMS Conway was both expected and anticipated, to be honoured at the same time with the Queen’s Gold Medal was certainly not, coming as it di …

‘Tomorrow I will be leaving the delights of beautiful, snowy Ramsbury and setting off on my adventure to Ghana …’The inspirational true story of one woman, two villages, infinite optimism and thous …

If you enjoy visiting second-hand book fairs, or browsing in bookshops, ‘All the Fun of the Book Fair’ offers a revealing look behind the scenes.It tells how a life-long book-lover finally, after ret …

Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century. When she died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission …