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The Story of the Malakand Field Force Winston S. Churchill · 1898 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Impegnativo The future prime minister served as an officer with a cavalry unit in India that saw no action, while he was there. Wanting to see some fighting, young Churchill connived to get himself temporarily attached to the Malakand field force, which was in action in the northwest frontier area and contracted with some British newspapers to write of what he saw. Informative, exciting and well written. … Temi in comune: Great Britain. Army, Churchill, Prime ministers, Great Britain

The Second World War Winston S. Churchill · 1941 · ★ 4.4 · 1031p · ≈ 34h · Impegnativo Never before in history have there been combined in one man the character, the political leadership, the military perception and the eloquence which our generation has known in Winston Churchill. It is no wonder that when it was announced that he would write the history of the Second World War, there arose throughout the world an interest and excitement caused by no other publication of this… Temi in comune: Churchill, Prime ministers, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

An autobiography Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi · 1927 · ★ 4.4 · 455p · ≈ 15h · Moderato Le lotte non violente di Gandhi contro il razzismo, la violenza e il colonialismo, prima in Sudafrica e poi in India, lo avevano reso così celebre e ammirato che, quando a metà della propria carriera gli fu chiesto di scrivere un'autobiografia, colse quell'occasione per spiegarsi. Temeva infatti che l'entusiasmo verso le sue idee finisse per superare la comprensione più profonda della sua ricerca… Temi in comune: Hommes d'État, Statesmen, Biography & Memoir

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Impegnativo Temi in comune: Biography & Memoir

Diario Samuel Pepys · 1825 · ★ 4.3 · 16p · ≈ 32m · Impegnativo Samuel Pepys (23 febbraio 1633 – 26 maggio 1703) fu amministratore della marina inglese e membro del Parlamento. Il dettagliato diario privato che Pepys tenne dal 1660 al 1669 rappresenta una delle fonti primarie più preziose per comprendere il periodo della Restaurazione inglese. Vi si intrecciano confessioni intime e resoconti oculari di eventi memorabili: la Grande Peste di Londra, la Seconda… Temi in comune: Statesmen, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

The Dragon and the Raven G. A. Henty · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Impegnativo Per molti anni l'Inghilterra fu assalita da orde danesi, i cui barbari ridussero i Sassoni a un pietoso groviglio di comunità disperse e devastate. Verso la fine del IX secolo d.C., da quel cupo scenario europeo emerse un uomo di nome Alfredo: con la sua saggezza, il suo sapere e il suo coraggio, radunò un esercito di prodi guerrieri che ricacciò i Vichinghi verso il Nord. Questa vicenda storica… Temi in comune: Great Britain

Agricola P. Cornelius Tacitus · 1585 · ★ 3.7 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Impegnativo "Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last major writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98. He was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended 'fifteen years of enforced silence'. These first products were brief: the biography of his late father-in-law Julius Agricola and an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the… Temi in comune: Statesmen, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · ★ 3.7 · 474p · ≈ 15h · Impegnativo xlvi, 467 p. ; 20 cm Temi in comune: Grande-Bretagne, Great Britain

Marlborough Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Moderato "Marlborough: His Life and Times is an exhaustive, four-volume panegyric biography, in which Churchill defends his ancestor against claims of war-mongering and charlatanism made by Thomas Macaulay, a 19th-century historian and Whig politician. The Duke of Marlborough was a military commander and statesman, who rose from a page at the Stuart court to one of the richest and most successful royal… Temi in comune: Statesmen, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg · 1926 · ★ 4.3 · 762p · ≈ 25h · Impegnativo This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew… Temi in comune: Hommes d'État, Statesmen, Biography & Memoir

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