Memoirs

The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922

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George Mallory



Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit. The northern approach to the mountain…

A Minor War History

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Martin Alonzo Haynes



A personal history of the American Civil War taken from the author's own letters to 'the girl he left behind', who later became his wife. Th…

Le Petit Nord

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Anne Maclanahan Grenfell



A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at th…

A Personal Record

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Joseph Conrad



Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…

Кремлевские жены 01. Кремлевские жены

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Лариса Васильева



Формат: аудиокнига, MP3, 96kbps  Автор: Лариса Васильева  Год выпуска: 2015  Жанр: Биографии и мемуары  Издательство: Ни…

A Versailles Christmas-Tide

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Mary Stuart Boyd



The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david w…

A Journey Round My Room

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Xavier De Maistre



Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir a…

Station Amusements in New Zealand

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Mary Anne Barker



Station Amusements in New Zealand is a collection of vignettes about life on a sheep station (high country farm) in colonial New Zealand dur…

Москва слезам не верит

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Мордовцев Даниил



Москва слезам не верит «Москва слезам не верит» – по версии известного историка и писателя Даниила Мордовцева, автором этой фра…

With the Anzacs in Cairo

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Guy Thornton



Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed …

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1663

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Samuel Pepys



Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre, always thoroughly engaged in his re…

The Long Ago

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Jacob William Wright and J. W. Wright



Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Holmes' Own Story

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Herman W. Mudgett



An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …

Разведка и Кремль. Записки нежелательного свидетеля

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Судоплатов Павел



Разведка и Кремль. Записки нежелательного свидетеля Павел Судоплатов в своих воспоминаниях рассказывает о своей жизни и службе в КГБ. Судоп…

Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art

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Thomas Carr Howe



"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of…

Six Years at the Russian Court

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Magaretta Eagar



From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664

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Samuel Pepys



Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife, difficulties with staff, power str…

The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777

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Nicholas Cresswell



Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take h…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 02

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne and Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne



Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." (Sum…

Brief Lives Volume II

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John Aubrey



Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

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