Biography - Secondhand

This volume examines the degeneracy in the family Hitler and Geli both came from, the emotional and sexual problems Hitler suffered, and gives the reader a chance to look at...

At 20 years of age, Ross Gregory was selected to play cricket for Australia. He went on to play alongside Bradman before enlisting in the RAAF and serving in England...

Enter a world of mystery and hauntings fair and foul . the best ghost stories you will read for a long time ... from the author of the bestselling Ancient...

Born into the vastness of Pixton Park in Somerset, Auberon Waugh was drawn early into class warfare; he pretended he had seen evacuees and children of servants eat rat poison...

The book titled The Autobiography by the author Arthur Ransome. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A history of the first-flight race documents the efforts of such Wright brothers' competitors as the Smithsonian's Samuel Pierpont Langley, Glenn Curtiss, and Alexander Graham Bell.

My Name Escapes Me, the January 1995 to June 1996 diary of Alec Guinness, received wide critical acclaim and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year....

The book titled Backcloth by the author Dirk Bogarde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The touching, true story of the first Australian RAAF airman to fly a Lancaster Bomber in World War II. As a fifteen-year-old boy growing up in Sydney, Francis Norman 'Norm'...

Ever wondered whether change is possible? Respected businesswoman Stacey Currie is proof that it is. Raised in housing commission accommodation, Stacey was pregnant at 15. At 19, she had two...

From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in 1928, Lores Bonney was hooked. With her aviation licence and...

Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming exchanges of their courtship until the year before...

Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York's cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects...

The heroic, #1 New York Times bestselling tale of the men who saved the world's greatest art from the Nazis, and the basis for the acclaimed motion picture starring George...

The success of John Coldstream's bestselling biography of Dirk Bogarde demonstrates that the interest in one of Britain's leading actors, memoirists and novelists does not diminish, even though it is...

An impressionistic study of Bruce Chatwin's life and work by one of his friends. It is not a biography, but a collection of Clapp's own memories of Chatwin and those...

Martin Cooper (1910-86), was one of the leading critics of the post-war period and chief music critic of "The Daily Telegraph" from 1954-7 as well as a broadcaster and author...

To some the Marquis de Sade was a monster, to others an apostle of sexual freedom and a literary genius. Lever reconstructs the life of the "divine marquis" in all...

The book titled Sinead: Life of Sinead O'Connor by the author Jimmy Guterman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is not only the story of one man's war, but of an aircraft - the Typhoon, or "Tiffy" as it was affectionately known - which the author describes as...

The book titled Life Sentence: Memoirs of Hartley Shawcross by the author Hartley Shawcross. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

So what we ll do is, we ll take this boy born into a life of illusion, bred by a mother who had hallucinations, trained in the art of being...

The book titled Beyond Lion Rock: Story of Cathay Pacific Airways by the author Gavin Young. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command...

Immortalized in print by Henry James and on canvas by John Singer Sargent and a legend in her own lifetime, Isabella Stewart Gardner struck out boldly against Victorian repression to...

Communists vilified her as a raging neurotic. Leftists dismissed her as a confused idealist. Her family pitied her as an exploited lover. Some said she was a traitor, a stooge,...

The book titled Mountbatten: The Official Biography by the author Philip Ziegler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Fords: An American Epic by the author Peter Collier. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Dymphna Lodewyckx was a brilliant linguist who instead of pursuing a career, married Manning Clark. She was her husband's constant research assistant and unofficial editor, as well as the mother...

Remarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating walks from around the planet - some lasting weeks, some lasting just a few days, but all of them set against spectacular backdrops....

Ludwig Binswanger (1881-1966) came from a distinguished Swiss psychiatrist dynasty which had run the internationally-renowned sanatorium Bellevue in Kreuz-lingen for generations. In 1907 he spent a year at the Zurich...

This is the story of New Zealand's most notorious art forger. Charles Frederick Goldie is the country's most famous artist. Carl Feodor Goldie is the most infamous forger. Karl Feodor...

The book titled The Popes: 50 Celebrated Occupants of the Throne of St. Peter by the author Michael Walsh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Despite Wallace's almost mythical status boosted in no small part by the film Braveheart present-day perceptions of him are not always based on the objective analysis of the historical facts....

Peter Campbell was the resident designer and art critic for the London Review of Books. He worked for the magazine from its first appearance in 1979 and wrote more than...

A box that plays music contains five books and a magnet.

The astonishing true journey of Trudi Kanter, an Austrian Jew, whose courage, resourcefulness, and perseverance kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion is a rediscovered masterpiece....

Mailer wrote almost 50,000 letters over the course of his life, keeping a copy of almost every one of them. He corresponded with presidents and politicians, artists and athletes, writers...

The book titled The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing That Changed by the author Rupert Isaacson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

"Many books have been written about the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, Australia. This one is very different. It speaks about the real situation that we face every day, a...

Discusses the life and work of Hungarian violinist Zoltan Szekely, who gained fame as the leader of the Hungarian String Quartet, and explores his working relationship with composer Bela Bartok

This text presents the autobiography of the man who made karate an international martial art, in which he recalls his own teachers and of his efforts to define and spread...

While the rumblings of oncoming war shook a divided Spain, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja traveled through the Spanish countryside to the family tomb in Seville. Nearly seventy...

This biography presents a portrait of one of the century's most famous dancers. The author travelled to Los Angeles, New York, London, Ireland and Viena to interview many of those...

"Remembering Charlie" is the life story of Charlie Chaplin, told by one of his friends and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs from the private collections of the author and...