Tag: Memoirs

Free Download Stendhal, Matthew Josephson, "Memoirs of Egotism"
English | 2012 | pages: 165 | ISBN: 0070611459, 1435109481 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Written in 1832, three years before The Life of Henry Brulard (which recounts the author’s boyhood and youth), Memoirs of Egotism forms the essential middle section of Stendhal’s intended autobiography. Along with Journals of Italy, these volumes comprise what André Gide has called one of the truly great autobiographies in any language.

Free Download Gregorio Mora-Torres, "Californio Voices: The Oral Memoirs of José María Amador and Lorenzo Asisara (Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series)"
English | 2005 | pages: 274 | ISBN: 1574411918, 1574414380 | PDF | 6,7 mb
In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early Californios, one of them being eighty-three-year-old Don José María Amador, a former "Forty-Niner" during the California Gold Rush and soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco. Amador tells of reconnoitering expeditions into the interior of California, where he encountered local indigenous populations. He speaks of political events of Mexican California and the widespread confiscation of the Californios’ goods, livestock, and properties when the United States took control. A friend from Mission Santa Cruz, Lorenzo Asisara, also describes the harsh life and mistreatment the Indians faced from the priests.

Free Download Spying on the Kremlin
by Mike Murtagh;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1036103838 | 237 pages | True PDF EPUB | 130.12 MB

Free Download Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie Mackinnon Hartzell By Jessie Mackinnon Hartzell; Joan Acocella (ed.)
2001 | 157 Pages | ISBN: 0824822536 | PDF | 2 MB
Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell arrived in Northern Thailand in 1912. She was awed by its beauty and became devoted to its people. This work casts light on colonialism, the Asia missions, and the convulsive changes that a newly united Thailand underwent in the early 20th century.

Free Download Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau By Gordon Robertson
2000 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 080204445X | PDF | 24 MB
Born in Saskatchewan in 1917, Gordon Robertson worked at the centre of government power from 1945 until his retirement in 1979. He worked directly with Prime Ministers King, St-Laurent, Pearson, and Trudeau, serving as senior advisor to the latter two. Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from 1953 to 1963, he also became the first Deputy Minister of the new Department of Northern Affairs under Jean Lesage. In this memoir he presents a first-hand account of the events and personalities that shaped Canada during the critical post-war period.Robertson tells of Canada’s development from colony to nation and the prime ministers who presided over the process. He provides an assessment of each prime minister in action: how they organized the cabinets, what their qualities were and how these related to their failures and successes. Himself influential in many areas of government, Robertson played a key role in the long debate on constitutional reform and national unity. Even after his retirement, he remained active as an unofficial contitutional networker.Gordon Robertson has written no ordinary memoir. Along with the key events and personalities of his day he describes the development of his own ideas about the nature of Canada and its constitutional future. The result is a significant historical document, one that brings much insight to the history of post-war Canada.

Free Download Nigel Lawson, "Memoirs Of A Tory Radical"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1849540470 | EPUB | pages: 680 | 0.8 mb
A key minister for a full decade and Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1983 to 1989, Nigel Lawson was one of the most powerful and effective of Margaret Thatcher’s colleagues, and among the chief architects of Thatcherism. This abridged edition of Lord Lawson’s memoirs – first published as The View from No.11 in 1992 and acclaimed as one of the best political memoirs of the period – goes straight to the heart of economic policy-making at a time of crisis and creative change. It explains the workings of government with candour, clarity and depth, against the backdrop of the remarkable story of the rise and fall of his political collaboration with Margaret Thatcher, productive and successful for many years, but ending with his dramatic resignation in October 1989.The book includes a new final chapter reflecting on events from the perspective of 2010, also discussing the crisis in the banking sector and global warming.

Free Download David Fraser, "Wars and Shadows : Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0141008598 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 1.9 mb
This exceptional memoir by one of Britain’s most distinguished living soldiers describes a life lived against the backdrop of the most significant military events of the last century. David Fraser was raised in a military family deep in the shadow of the First World War. He absconded from school to enlist at the earliest possible moment after the Second was declared. He was intimately involved afterwards in crises in Suez, Cyprus and Malaya, and eventually became Vice Chief of the General Staff.

Free Download Diana Athill, "Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill"
English | ISBN: 1847081460 | 2010 | 667 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, ‘to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth’. In a celebration of her life and writing, Life Class brings together four of her best-loved memoirs in one volume, spanning her very English childhood, her life and loves during the Second World War, her publishing career at André Deutsch, and her reflections on old age. Introduced by Ian Jack, Diana Athill’s selected memoirs are a remarkable testament to an unusual and fully lived life.

Free Download The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer by Dottie Dodgion, Wayne Enstice
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0252085515 | 312 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a "man’s instrument" in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s.

Free Download Memoirs of a Militant: My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison
by Nawal Qasim Baidoun
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1623719038 | 176 Pages | True ePUB | 1 MB