This book tells of Han Wu Di, an influential ruler of ancient China for 54 years, and also covers religious beliefs, clothing and adornment, and inventions and the arts of the time period.
Biography – Autobiography- Memoir
A Fortunate Life
Describes the author’s experiences growing up on the West Australian frontier, working as an itinerant rural laborer, and fighting in World War I. Condensed edition.
The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Presents a history of the struggle for political control in Mexico during the years 1910-1920, including biographical sketches of key personalities.
Behind The Secret Window: A Memoir Of A Hidden Childhood During Ww Ii
The autobiographical account of an eight-year-old Jewish girl as she hides from the Nazis in a small bedroom in Lwow, Poland, in 1943 contains twenty-nine examples of her many paintings during that period.
Luba: The Angel Of Bergen-Belsen
Presents an illustrated biography of the Jewish heroine, Luba Tryszynska, who saved the lives of more than fifty Jewish children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the winter of 1944/45.
Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl
The autobiographical reminiscences of a young Jewish girl coming of age during World War II describes her life in hiding from the Nazis and offers a poignant study of the tragedy of the Holocaust.
Chingis Khan
A biography of the Mongol leader and military strategist who, at the height of his power, was supreme master of the largest empire ever created in the lifetime of one man.
Margrit’s World War Ii
In 1943, five-year-old Margrit was separated from her mother, father, and siblings and sent to a farm in Bavaria to escape the bombing in the big city of Hamburg.
The Upstairs Room
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer’s house during World War II. Continued by the author’s The journey back.
Doctor on an Elephant
Riding elephants, crossing flooded rivers, outrunning rogues, and avoiding tigers are not the things that most doctors face in an average workday, but then they don’t work in the province of Bengal. Dr. John Symington did. As the doctor for several tea plantations in a region along India’s northeastern border in the early part of this century, and adventure was simply part of his day.