18 books like My Early Life

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The Story of the Malakand Field Force Winston S. Churchill · 1898 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging 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. … Shares: Churchill, Great Britain. Army, Prime ministers, Great Britain

The Second World War Winston S. Churchill · 1941 · ★ 4.4 · 1031p · ≈ 34h · Challenging 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… Shares: Churchill, Prime ministers, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

An autobiography Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi · 1927 · ★ 4.4 · 455p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest for truth rooted in devotion to… Shares: Hommes d'État, Statesmen, Biography & Memoir

The life of Niccolò Machiavelli Roberto Ridolfi · 1963 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A narrative biography of the Florentine in which his own deeds and his own words speak for themselves. Shares: Hommes d'État, Statesmen, Biography & Memoir

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

The Anti-Death League Kingsley Amis · 1803 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Amid preparations for Operation Apollo, secret agent Brian Leonard meet James Churchill who has "gone round-the-bend for a parole from the mental ward," "a widowed beauty ..., an unfocused psychiatrist, an unbelieving chaplain, and a charming alcoholic."--Container. Shares: Great Britain. Army, Great Britain

Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg · 1926 · ★ 4.3 · 762p · ≈ 25h · Challenging 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… Shares: Hommes d'État, Statesmen, Biography & Memoir

My lobotomy Howard Dully · 1998 · ★ 4.5 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital--or ice pick--lobotomy.Abandoned by his family within a year of… Shares: Biography and autobiography, Biography & Memoir

Diary Samuel Pepys · 1825 · ★ 4.2 · 16p · ≈ 32m · Challenging Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second… Shares: Statesmen, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Julius Caesar Jacob Abbott · 1849 · ★ 4.4 · 103p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history. Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Charles I, Charles II, Cleopatra, Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great,… Shares: Hommes d'État, Biography & Memoir

Mémoires Jean Monnet · 1976 · 642p · ≈ 21h · Moderate L'Histoire place désormais Jean Monnet parmi les quelques hommes du XXe siècle qui, par leur action, ont infléchi le destin du monde et transformé nos conditions de vie.En fait, ses Mémoires, devenus aujourd'hui l'ouvrage de référence d'un nombre croissant de décideurs, révèlent la prodigieuse aventure d'un homme dont l'action a été déterminante à chaque grand carrefour de l'histoire… Shares: Statesmen, Biography & Memoir

Diary of a Pilgrimage Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1891 · ★ 3.7 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging While it is beyond doubt that Jerome K. Jerome is most well known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat, the range of his other literary achievements is staggering. Journalist, playwright and author, a wealth of his writing has remained just beyond the public gaze. Diary of a Pilgrimage is one such work. The pilgrimage of the title is a journey to see the famous Passion Play at… Shares: Biography and autobiography, Biography & Memoir

Agricola P. Cornelius Tacitus · 1585 · ★ 3.7 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Demanding "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… Shares: Statesmen, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

The perfect gentleman Imran Ahmad · 2012 · ★ 3.6 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Imran Ahmad shares his story of life as a Pakistani Muslim growing up in England in this coming-of-age memoir"--Provided by the publisher. Shares: Childhood and youth, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Marlborough Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Challenging "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… Shares: Statesmen, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Moi︠a︡ zhiznʹ Leon Trotsky · 1930 · 602p · ≈ 20h · Challenging Shares: Statesmen, Biography & Memoir

Ayyām Ṭāhā Ḥusayn · 1932 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares: Childhood and youth, Biography & Memoir

Shi ji Sima Qian · 1550 · ★ 1.0 · 20p · ≈ 40m · Demanding xx, 243 p. ; 23 cm Shares: Statesmen, Biography & Memoir

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