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112 page soft cover, with index, of Brown County, Texas civil war veterans biographical sketches, 1861-1874, Book 10. ... Read more

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A look at the famous Civil War battle between the ironclads Monitor and Virginia (Merrimack) that began a new age for warfare at sea. ... Read more

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Chapters: Dolores Ibárruri. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 419. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (9 December 1895 12 November 1989), known more famously as "La Pasionaria" (passion flower) was a Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician of Basque origin, perhaps best known for her defense of the Second Spanish Republic with the famous slogan ¡No Pasarán! ("They Shall Not Pass"), during the Battle of Madrid. She grew up in Gallarta, the daughter of a local Basque miner and a Castillian mother. Upon her marriage to the revolutionary socialist miner Julián Ruiz Gabiña, Ibarruri moved to Somorrosto (Bizkaia). It was here, during the 1920s, that the once Carlist Catholic young woman became a revolutionary militant activist and one of the first members of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) when it was founded in 1921. In the 1930s, she became a writer for the PCE publication Mundo Obrero, and was elected to the Cortes as a PCE deputy for Asturias in February 1936 during the Second Republic. After the end of the Spanish Civil War and her exile from Spain, she was appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain, a position she held from 1942 to 1960, when she was made honorary president of the PCE, a post she held for the rest of her life. Upon her return to Spain in 1977, she was reelected as a deputy to the Cortes for the same region she had once represented during the Second Republic. She is usually regarded as being one of the greatest public speakers of the twentieth century. The main source of information about La Pasionaria before she became famous is her autobiography "El Unico Camino" (The Only Way). She was born as the daughter of a poor Carlist miner's family in the Basque town...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=273815 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Arthur Koestler, László Rajk, Ernő Gerő, Máté Zalka, Ferenc Münnich. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Arthur Koestler CBE (5 September 1905, Budapest 1 March 1983, London) was an author of essays, novels and autobiographies. Koestler was born in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. His early career was in journalism. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating anti-totalitarian novel, Darkness at Noon, which propelled him to international fame. Over the next 43 years, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, biographies, and numerous essays. In 1968 he was awarded the prestigious Sonning Prize "for outstanding contribution to European culture", and in 1972 he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE). In 1976 Koestler was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and three years later with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in its terminal stages. He committed suicide along with his wife in 1983 in London. Koestler's father, Henrik Koestler, was born on 18 August 1869 in the town of Miskolc in northeastern Hungary. Henrik's father, Leopold Koestler, was a Russian Jew who had settled in northeastern Hungary in 1860, where he married a local woman. Henrik left school at age 16 due to his parents' strained financial circumstances and took a job as an errand boy with a firm of drapers. Determined to improve his prospects, he taught himself English, German and French, and in the course of a few years obtained promotion to the sales department and eventually became a partner in the firm. A few years later, he set up his own business importing textiles into Hungary. Arthur's mother, Adele Koestler (née Zeiteles), wa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18950939 ... Read more

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Chapters: Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-Shek, Zhou Enlai, George Marshall, Wang Jingwei, Liu Bocheng, Lin Biao, Anna Louise Strong, Zhang Zuolin, Peng Dehuai, John Roderick, Zhu De, Rewi Alley, Zhang Guotao, James Gareth Endicott, Wei Guoqing, Yen Hsi-Shan, Ma Haide, Eva Sandberg, Eleutherius Winance, Nie Rongzhen, Chen Yi, Sun Chuanfang, Fang Zhenwu, Tian Bao, Barbara Stephens, Wang Yunwu, Bai Wanxiang, Feng Baiju. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 226. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mao Zedong ·) (December 26, 1893 September 9, 1976) was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His theoretical contribution to Marxism-Leninism, military strategies, and his brand of Communist policies are now collectively known as Maoism. Mao remains a controversial figure to this day, with a contentious and ever-evolving legacy. He is officially held in high regard in China as a great revolutionary, political strategist, military mastermind, and savior of the nation. Many Chinese also believe that through his policies, he laid the economic, technological and cultural foundations of modern China, transforming the country from an agrarian society into a major world power. Additionally, Mao is viewed by many as a poet, philosopher, and visionary, owing the latter primarily to the cult of personality fostered during his time in power. As a consequence, his portrait continues to be featured prominently on Tiananmen and on all Renminbi bills. Conversely, Mao's social-political programs, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are blamed for costing millions of lives, causing severe famine and damage to the culture, society and economy of China. This is generally accep...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19527 ... Read more

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Chapters: Belgian People of World War I, Belgian People of World War Ii, Belgian People of the Spanish Civil War, Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Henri Reynders, Robert Van Genechten, Hendrik Elias, Georges Kopp, Gabrielle Petit, Charles de Broqueville, Albert de Coninck. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Mercier (November 21, 1851January 23, 1926) was a Belgian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1907. Mercier is noted for his staunch resistance to the German occupation of 1914, and is considered to have been the mentor of Leo Cardinal Suenens. Désiré Mercier was born at the château du Castegier in Braine-l'Alleud, as the fifth of the seven children of Paul-Léon Mercier and his wife Anne-Marie Barbe Croquet. Entering the minor seminary at Mechelen in 1861, he then attended Mechelen's Grand Seminary from 1870 to 1874. Mercier received the clerical tonsure in 1871, temporarily served as dean of the seminary, and was finally ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Giacomo Cattani, the nuncio to Belgium, on April 4, 1874. He obtained his licientiate in theology (1877) and doctorate in philosophy from the University of Louvain, and also took courses in psychology in Paris. Mercier was the nephew of Reverend Adrien Croquet. In the 1860s Rev. Croquet (renamed Crockett) became a missionary to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation in Oregon. In the 1870s, a cousin to Mercier, Joseph Mercier, joined his uncle Rev. Croquet in Oregon and married into a Native American tribe. Today, there are several thousand descendants of Joseph as members of the tribe. Three of Mercier's sisters became nuns, and his brother Léon became a physician...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7335620 ... Read more

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Chapters: Civil Wars Involving the States and Peoples of Africa, Civil Wars Involving the States and Peoples of Asia, Civil Wars Involving the States and Peoples of Europe, Civil Wars Involving the States and Peoples of North America, Civil Wars Involving the States and Peoples of Oceania, Civil Wars Involving the States and Peoples of South America, Irish Civil War, Russian Civil War, Finnish Civil War, Fronde, Cambodian Civil War, 2008 Nord-Kivu Campaign, Angolan Civil War, Spanish Civil War, War in North-West Pakistan, 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, Lebanese Civil War, Colombian Armed Conflict, Bangladesh Liberation War, Algerian Civil War, Civil War in Chad, Congo Crisis, War of the Castilian Succession, Nepalese Civil War, Croat-bosniak War, Salvadoran Civil War, Civil War in Iraq, Lord's Resistance Army Insurgency, Kivu Conflict, Guatemalan Civil War, Irish Confederate Wars, Cristero War, Royalist Rising of 1651 to 1654, Ten-Day War, Rwandan Civil War, Ivorian Civil War, Cypriot Intercommunal Violence, Second Sudanese Civil War, Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, New Zealand Land Wars, Internal Conflict in Peru, Sierra Leone Civil War, 1991 Uprisings in Iraq, Chilean Civil War, Costa Rican Civil War, First Carlist War, Catalonian Civil War, First Liberian Civil War, Inca Civil War, Spanish Civil War, 1820-1823, Somali Civil War, Reform War, Persecution of Christians in Mexico, Georgian Civil War, Armagnac-burgundian Civil War, La Violencia, Austrian Civil War, Civil War in Tajikistan, Central African Republic Bush War, Guinea-Bissau Civil War, Attempts at Reconciliation in Somalia, Iraqi Kurdish Civil War, Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, Piedmontese Civil War, Trịnh-nguyễn War, Dongo Conflict, Franco-Spanish War, Colombian Civil War, Second Liberian Civil War, Mozambican Civil War, Central Plains War, Thousand Days War, Uruguayan Civil War, Somalian Revolution, Baussenque Wars, Ugandan Bush War, Sicil...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11772 ... Read more

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Chapters: Spanish People of the Spanish Civil War, Pablo Picasso, Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Lluís Companys, Buenaventura Durruti, Federica Montseny, Luis Carrero-Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero-Blanco, Dolores Ibárruri, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, José Brocca, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Miguel de Unamuno, Manuel Azaña, José Millán Astray, Santiago Carrillo, Ricardo Zamora, Eusebio Rodríguez Salas, Juan Negrín, Jesús Galíndez, Martí de Riquer I Morera, José Antonio Aguirre, Josep Tarradellas I Joan, Francisco Largo Caballero, Eduard Pons Prades, Emilio Esteban Infantes, Wilebaldo Solano, Indalecio Prieto, Federico Borrell García, Pedro García Cabrera, Andrés Nin, Rosario Sánchez Mora, Julián Besteiro, José Moscardó Ituarte, Ramon Vila Capdevila, José María Gil-Robles Y Quiñones, Ángel Pestaña, Joaquín Maurín, Arturo Barea, José Calvo Sotelo, Ceferino Giménez Malla, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Miguel Ezquerra, Enrique Líster, Manuel García Pelayo, Luis Jiménez de Asúa, Francesc Sabaté Llopart, Miguel Castaño, Valentín González, Melchor Rodríguez García, Cipriano Mera, Enrique Piñeyro Queralt, Francisco Ascaso, Rafael Sánchez Mazas, Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Josep Irla I Bosch, José Castillo, Juan March Ordinas, Joaquín Arderíus, Julio Mangada, Manuel Aznar Zubigaray, José María Pemán, Amparo Poch Y Gascón, Juan García Oliver, Valeriano Orobón Fernández, Augusto Pérez Garmendia, Juan Modesto, Joan Montseny, Julián Gorkin, Jaime Hilario, Antonio Téllez, Diego Martínez Barrio, Abel Paz, José Fondevila García, José Cabrero Arnal, Sebastián Pozas Perea, José Giral, Miguel García Vivancos, Fidel Dávila Arrondo, Ramón Rubial, Antonio Aranda, Josep Sunyol, Domingo Rey D'harcourt, Domingo López Torres, Ignacio Gallego, Belarmino Tomás, Cayetano Redondo Aceña, Carlos Asensio Cabanillas, Eduardo Sáenz de Buruaga, Rafael Sánchez Guerra, Ildefonso Puigdendolas, Heli Rolando de Tella Y Cantos, Manuel Aznar Acedo, Isaac Puente, A...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=273815 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ernest Hemingway, Emma Goldman, Robert Minor, John Dos Passos, George Seldes, Morris Cohen, Steve "Pablo" Davis, Frank Glasgow Tinker, Albert Baumler, Herbert Matthews, William Ash, William Lindsay Gresham, George Sossenko, Lester Ziffren, Lois Orr. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 130. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (now Kaunas in Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Though Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth. In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrestedalong with hundreds of othersand deported to Russia. Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9764 ... Read more

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Civil War Battle Accounts from Soldiers Officers Generals
"Shortly after the end of the war, the editors of The Century Magazine commissioned 135 eyewitnesses of each major battle & campaign on land and sea to record their recollections of those events. In many cases, the writer was the officer in charge and bought a unique perspective to the Battle's strategy, manpower, logistics, & armaments." ... Read more

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Chapters: Latvian People of World War Ii, Latvian People of the Spanish Civil War, Latvian Victims of Soviet Repressions, Kārlis Ulmanis, Konstantin Budkevich, Jānis K. Bērziņš, Eduard Berzin, Gustavs Zemgals, Solomon Mikhoels, Vladimirs Petrovs, Alfrēds Riekstiņš, Gustav Klutsis, Litene, Žanis Ansons, Yakov Peters, Yan Rudzutak, Jukums Vācietis, Arturs Sproģis, Marija Leiko, Ivar Smilga, Brūno Kalniņš, Jānis Lipke, Knuts Skujenieks, Jānis Balodis, Augusts Vilis Abakuks. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 78. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Krlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis (September 4, 1877 in Brze parish, Latvia September 20, 1942 in Krasnovodsk prison, Soviet Union) was a prominent Latvian politician in pre-World War II Latvia during the Latvian period of independence from 1918 to 1940. Krlis Ulmanis - StudentUlmanis studied agriculture at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and at Leipzig University, Germany, and then worked in Latvia as a writer, lecturer, and manager in agricultural positions. He was politically active during the 1905 Revolution, was briefly imprisoned in Pskov, and subsequently fled Latvia to avoid incarceration by the Russian authorities. During this period of exile, Ulmanis studied at the University of Nebraska in the United States, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture. After working briefly at that university as a lecturer, Ulmanis moved to Houston, Texas, where he had purchased a dairy business. Ulmanis returned to Latvia from exile in 1913, after being informed that it was safe to return due to the declaration of a general amnesty by the Russian tsar. This safety was short-lived as World War I broke out one year later. In the aftermath of the war, Ulmanis was one of the principal founders of the Latvian People's Council (Tautas Padome), which procl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=494423 ... Read more

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Chapters: Mexican People of the Mexican-american War, Mexican People of the Spanish Civil War, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Melchor Ocampo, Antonio Pujol. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: José David Alfaro Siqueiros (December 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico - January 6, 1974 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a social realist painter, known for his large murals in fresco that helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with works by Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, and also a Stalinist who participated in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky in May 1940. Siqueiros was born the second of three children in Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1896. His father, Cipriano Alfaro, was well-to-do, and was a descendant of Felipe Alfaro of Portugal. His mother, Teresa Siqueiros, came from a Chihuahua family of musicians, actors, and poets. Siqueiros had two siblings: a sister, Luz, three years older, and a brother Chucho, one year younger. David was four years old when his mother died and his father sent the children to live with their paternal grandparents. Siete Filos, Davids grandfather, would have an especially strong role in his upbringing. However, Cipriano, a devout Catholic, disapproved with the way that his parents had been raising the children in the countryside, so in 1907 he brought them back to live with him in Mexico City. There David attended a biblical school. He credits his first rebellious influence to his sister, who had resisted their fathers religious orthodoxy. Around this time, David was also exposed to new political ideas, mainly along the lines of anarcho-syndicalism. One such political theorist was Dr. Atl, who published a manifesto in 1906 calling for Mexican artists to develop a national art and look to a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=172013 ... Read more