E-böcker / Memoarer & Biografier
A Child's History of England
"There were two Popes at this time (as if one were not enough!), and their quarrels involved Europe in a great deal of trouble."If only history could always be this fun! Unlike Sha ...
American Notes
"All that is loathsome, drooping, or decayed is here."In 1842 Dickens sailed to America to observe The New World that held such fascination for the English. He went to magnificent ...
Sunday Under Three Heads
"Their good humour and delight know no bounds - for it is a delightful morning, all blue over head, and nothing like a cloud in the whole sky."Under the pseudonym of Timothy Sparks ...
Tove Jansson - Ett liv
Tove Jansson blev världsberömd för sina böcker om Muminfamiljen. som hon både skrev och illustrerade. Böckerna har översatts till mer än femtio språk och nått en världspublik. Berä ...
Cancerbrev
"Alla som varit på magnetröntgen vet att det tar sin tid. Jag ligger där och lyssnar på den klassiska musiken som jag valt. Så blir det mera aktivitet bakom glaset. Läkaren kom- me ...
Jag måste, när ingen annan vill : Kvinnosakskämpen Sophie Sager
Vem var Sophie Sager? Hon var misshandelsoffret som blev kvinnorättskämpe, sömmerskan som blev författare, kvinnan på barrikaden som blev husmodern i Brooklyn. Hon blev riksbekant ...
Inför Gud och kniven är vi alla lika
Lukten av desinfektionsmedel hänger tung i luften. Tystnaden är total, nästan hörbar. Spända koncentrerade blickar möter varandra över munskydden. Tiden står stilla. - Patienten so ...
Secret Channel to Berlin
This book focuses on the delicate connection between the head of Swiss Intelligence, Colonel Roger Masson, and the German Chief of Espionage, SS General Walter Schellenberg. The a ...
A Mighty Fortress
A Mighty Fortress is the personal account of the Captain and crew of a lead bomber in the enormous formation raids made by the 8th Airforce during the last few months of the Second ...
Unless Victory Comes
Gene Garrison spent a terrifying nineteenth birthday crammed into a muddy foxhole near the German border in the Saar. He listened helplessly to cries of wounded comrades as explodi ...
The First Jihad
Before there was Osama bin Laden, Abu al-Zarqawi or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi—the “Expected One”—who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and aposta ...
LBJ's Hired Gun
Many Vietnam memoirs have appeared in recent years, but not a single one has the humor, pathos, poignancy, and often sheer hilarity of John J. Gebhart’s riveting LBJ’S Hired Gun. A ...
Nazi Millionaires
During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria. Fearful of a ...
Surrounded by Heroes
When the author was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942 he had no reason to expect special treatment. Instead, because he was a typist and draftsman, he was grabbed up by an outfit ...
Jump: Into the Valley of the Shadow
When Dwayne Burns turned 18 during World War II, he decided that he wanted to fight alongside America’s best. He joined the paratroopers and was assigned to the 508th Regiment of t ...
Prodigals
During his first tour in Vietnam - 1967-68 - Dick Taylor was a well trained and highly motivated amateur assigned to advise a hard-bitten ARVN infantry battalion working in the mud ...
Tammikuun ensimmäinen 1900
On tammikuu ja 1900-luvun ensimmäinen päivä Pariisissa. Päivämäärä ei ole satunnainen, vaan merkittävä monella tapaa. Se on keskikohta La Belle Époquelle, ihanalle kaudelle. Kaudel ...
Matka halki Satumaan: miten minusta tuli dekkarikirjailija
Miten minusta tuli kirjailija? Suosittu dekkaristi Heleena Lönnroth ei pura elämäkerrassaan pelkästään kirjailijanuransa vaiheita, vaan kertoo avoimesti kaikesta näkemästään ja kok ...
Merenjakaja
Purjevene Pegasos on haaksirikkoutunut Sudanin rannikolle. Suurta hätää ei kuitenkaan ole – vene on kiinni kohdassa, jossa meri on vain noin metrin syvää. Port Sudanista luvataan l ...
Den ädla konsten att balansera livet
Den ädla konsten i att balansera livet handlar om att klara av att få vardagen och livet att fungera trots motstånd och svårigheter. Att leva med bruten nacke, respirator dygnet ru ...
Tack Mamma : En bok för dig som saknar
Den här boken är för dig som saknar och sörjer.Den här boken är för dig som vårdar en anhörig som är på väg bort.Den här boken är för dig som skräms av döden.Men framförallt är den ...
American Notes
'In American Notes', the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880's.Kipling affe ...
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard
In "My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard," Elizabeth Cooper offers the reader a translation of two series of letters by Kwei-li, the wife of a high-rank Chinese official.The first seri ...
Fighting the Flying Circus
"Fighting the Flying Circus" is fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker WWI memoir. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th 'Hat-in-the-Ring' Squadron, which ended the war ...
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
This posthumously published autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting accounts of the life of one of the wealthiest self-made men in American history. ...