Peter Bowman 
Endurance: A German Tale from the World War Era [EPUB ebook] 

The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost. Under President Eisenhower the US pursued a policy of support for dictators, the economic …

A rare feminist perspective on a people and a culture in one of the most tumultuous regions in the world, Nadia, Captive of Hope is the autobiography of Fay Afaf Kanafani, an Arab Muslim woman born i …

Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His pe …

How a family-run business from humble Bikaner transformed Haldiram into a global, much-loved brand In the early twentieth century, a young man, Ganga Bhishan Agarwal, aka Haldiram, gained a reputatio …

The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych-a career in three parts. In his early years, Ginzberg”s work was dedicated to understanding the history of economics, from Adam Smit …

It was the case that shocked the nation. On the evening of 20 April 2011, Tina Nash”s life changed forever. After suffering months of beatings and domestic abuse at the hands of boyfriend Shane Jenk …

Fidel Castro had ruled the island of Cuba for fifty-two years when ill health forced him to step down in 2008. Over the course of that time, he changed Cuba from a republic to a communist state and b …

Educated is the story of a girl’s struggle for balance between learnings about life and her family’s worldviews. From her loyalty to and love for her family to the need of severing these same ties, t …

Francois Mitterrand is one of France”s most famous twentieth-century politicians, yet interpretations of his values and leadership vary widely. Alistair Cole”s in depth study starts with a chronolo …