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Biografier giver dig adgang til ægte livsfortællinger og skæbner, der har sat deres præg på verden. Her finder du bøger om både nulevende og historiske personer - fra de magtfulde til de misforståede, fra kendte navne til hverdagens helte. Vores udvalg rummer inspirerende historier om mod, passion og vilje, hvor virkelighedens stemmer får plads. Uanset om du søger en biografi med indhold til samlingen, en rørende gave eller blot ønsker at læse om mennesker, der har ændret verden, er der masser at vælge imellem. Find din næste biografi hos WilliamDam.dk og oplev fortællinger, der berører og sætter sig fast.
This is a biographical study of Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones, last Governor of Nyasaland. He was posted to Northern Rhodesia as an administrative cadet in 1931. He moved to Nyasaland in 1960, during which time he became Governor-General.
Tamerlane ruled over one of the largest empires in history - an empire that stretched from Syria in the east to the fringes of China, and from southern Russia to northern India.
In this, the first post-communist biography of Tito, the acclaimed historian Geoffrey Swain paints a new picture of this famous figure, focusing primarily on his Communist years. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Communist and Eastern European history.
Analysing the form and influence of Ruskin's social theory, this book looks at Ruskin's significant contribution to social and... Læs mere
The author was living in Tehran during the build-up to the Iranian Revolution and kept a daily account of the events he witnessed as the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Shah squared up to each other. This diary makes a crucial contribution to our historical understanding of events.
A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability.
This work focuses upon the 19th-century author, James Morier, and his two brothers, Jack and David. It reveals how during the Napoleonic wars the brothers forsook the world of trade to become involved in countering French activities and influence in the Ottoman Empire and Persia.
This political and intellectual biography of Darcus Howe uses Howe's dramatic personal history as a lens through which to explore the British civil rights movement in the defining years of the 1970s and 80s.
The Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, leader of the rising German Empire based on Prussian militarism and discipline, and Lord Odo Russell, Britain's Liberal Ambassador, were politically and socially worlds apart. Their remarkable friendship is examined in this volume.
Ahmet Agaoglu's life and writings reflect huge 20th-century historical events, such as revolutions in Russia in1905 and 1917 and the establishment of... Læs mere