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Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
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Include books by the same authorShadows of the Workhouse
Jennifer Worth · 294 pages
Trials Of The Earth
Mary Mann Hamilton, Helen Davis · 336 pages
A People's History of American Empire
Howard Zinn, Paul M. Buhle, Mike Konopacki · 288 pages
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown · 416 pages
Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing f
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold · 352 pages
Lillian's Story: One Womans Journey through the 20th Century
Sally Patricia Gardner · 314 pages
Born in Suffolk in 1900, Lillian's life spans the twentieth century. The eldest daughter of a farmworker, she is destined for service at the age of twelve, but her life is changed irrevocably, first by World War One, and subsequently even more by World War Two. These dual experiences cast their shadows forward and influence the rest of her life - a long and eventful life. The post-war austerity ye
Ava's Man
Rick Bragg · 265 pages
The Pulitzer Prize--winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, made boats out of car
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Kathleen Krull · 48 pages
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
Mari Sandoz · 428 pages
Presents a biography of Crazy Horse, one of the last Indian leaders to wage war against the wave of immigrants invading their lands.
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Miklos Nyiszli · 160 pages
See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15671648W
Travels with Herodotus
Ryszard Kapuscinski · 288 pages
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad -- perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India -- the first stop on a decades-
And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel · 241 pages
"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab new
The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters
Charlotte Mosley · 848 pages
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
Samuel Pepys · 1,152 pages
I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years
Victor Klemperer · 544 pages
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald C. White Jr. · 845 pages
In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American Leaders." But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In American Ulysses, Ronald C. White argues that we need to once more revise our estimates of him in the twenty-first. Based on seven years of research with prim
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Chinua Achebe · 352 pages
Achebe's long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-1970.
Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition
Robert Falcon Scott · 529 pages
From Manassas To Appomattox
James Longstreet · 690 pages
James Longstreet, also known as Robert E. Lee’s Old War Horse, was one of the top Confederate generals of the American Civil War. Longstreet wrote the memoirs *From Manassas to Appomattox* detailing his experience in the war.
Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
Owen Matthews · 308 pages
A raw, vivid family memoir about lineage and escape - how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it, trapped in the skeins of history.