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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.
The Nguyen of Kim Bai (a village in the Red River delta in Vietnam) traces its ancestry back to at least the 15th century. The region is also considered to be the birthplace of the Vietnamese race (the epic revolt of the Trung sisters against the Chinese occupiers occurred here).
This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.
Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.
From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in... Læs mere
Looks at the king and his beliefs, domestic problems, and foreign policy.
Explores the many struggles to fix Marie Antoinette's identity.
In this work, historians tell the story of the Romanovs as complex individual personalities and as key institutional actors in Russian history, from the empire builder Peter I to the last tsar, Nicholas II.
Aims to provide an exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life of Russia's 18th century tsar/reformer and the theme of progress through violence in Russia.
As the elder daughter of an emperor whose wife had presented him with no sons, Isabel stood to inherit the monarchy of Brazil with the passing of Dom Pedro II. On three separate occasions, Isabel was named regent, or head of state.
This is a re-examination of the life and works of Queen Mother Elisabeth of Belgium. She not only played a major role in Belgian life through two world wars, but also acted as a key patron and organiser of European musical life for over 40 years.
Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading popular historian Alison Weir 'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot.
A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian. 'Thoroughly enjoyable, beautifully written and meticulously researched' Observer