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The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
Pu Yi, Henry Pu Yi, Paul M. Kramer · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorDragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
Sterling Seagrave · 601 pages
The author of *The Soong Dynasty* gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
Liliuokalani · 414 pages
The Glitter and the Gold
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan · 290 pages
This book is so much fun. If you're interested in the history of the upper class in the US or England, it is well worth checking this book out. Parts of it are laugh-out-loud funny, such as the description of dinner with the Duke; others are edge-of-your-seat exciting, such has her escape from the oncoming Germans in WWI; and others are just poignant, such as some of the anecdotes from her childho
Alexandra: The Last Tsarina
Carolly Erickson
Six Records of a Floating Life
Shen Fu · 176 pages
Autobiographical story of Shen Fu and his wife, Yun, in 19th(?) century China. (In four parts - two lost).
The Final Curtsey
Margaret Rhodes · 152 pages
Margaret Rhodes was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost-vanished world of privilege. Her aunt was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth is her first cousin. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip. Three years later the King and Queen attended her own wedding; Princess Margaret was a bridesmaid. In 1990, she was appoint
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Pamela Hicks · 262 pages
This magical memoir about a singular childhood in England and India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten provides a privileged glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the twentieth century's leading figures.
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Jung Chang · 464 pages
In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a coup against her son’s regents and placed herself as the true source of power—governing through a silk screen that separated her from her male officials. Drawing on newly available sources, Jung Chang comprehen
A Royal Duty
Paul Burrell · 430 pages
A ROYAL DUTY by Paul Burrell, the man in whom she confided on matters big and small. Burrell became Diana's confidant and his unique perspective casts new light on the Princess of Wales and the events that would shape her life and the lives of those around her. At the time of her death there was much speculation about Diana's future plans including her thoughts about remarrying and the possibili
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie · 791 pages
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself
A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur
Gayatri Devi, Santha Rama Rau · 335 pages
Memoirs of the maharani of Jaipur, an Indian princely state, encompassing her privileged childhood, her marriage as the maharajah's third wife, the events of Indian Independence and her political career in India after Independence
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Sally Bedell Smith · 718 pages
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea
Lady Hyegyeong · 329 pages
Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin · 444 pages
A poor child living in poverty is chosen out of millions of children to attend Madame Mao's dancing ballet. His life drastically shifted from living in poverty to studying dance.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass · 570 pages
"Born and raised a slave, Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895) made two escape attempts before reaching freedom, educated himself against all odds, and became a leading abolitionist and spokesperson for African Americans." "My Bondage and My freedom is his account of his life, and that of slaves generally, in antebellum Maryland. Just as impressive as Douglass's gift for conveying the stark terrors and
Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer
Peter H. Burnett · 389 pages
Personal History
Katharine Graham · 642 pages
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women - a book that is, as its title suggests, both personal and history. It is the story of Graham's parents: the multi-millionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post; the aggressive, formidable, self-absorbed mother, known in he
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant · 646 pages
At the age of thirty-nine, Ulysses Simpson Grant volunteered to command a regiment after the attack on Fort Sumter. His campaign in early 1862 against Forts Henry and Donelson resulted in the first major Union victory of the Civil War. Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga - the great battles in the West that followed - are stunningly described in Personal Memoirs. After Grant's rise to commanding gener
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 208 pages
Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World. Written initially to guide his son, Franklin's aut
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson · 110 pages
Catherine of Aragon
Garrett Mattingly · 384 pages
A biography of the first wife of Henry VIII of England and an evaluation of the controversy surrounding her part in his life.