The author shares the story of her youth and young adulthood in France prior to and following World War II, describing how she was sent to the French countryside pretending to be Catholic

A new Afterword by the author now accompanies the bestselling political memoir of all time, written by a wife, mother and one of the most formidable figures in the history of American politics.

"To tell my own story is to tell that of my famous husband, General John A. Logan," explains Mary S. Logan in the preface to her autobiography. Married to John A. Logan for thirty-one years, Mary Logan shared in her distinguished husband’s career as a prosecutor in southern Illinois, as a Civil War general, and as a senator from Illinois. She observed firsthand the extraordinary events before, during, and after the Civil War, and she knew personally those world leaders who held the power to shape history. After the death of her husband, she maintained her influence in Washington, D.C. "Under the brightest and darkest skies," she explains, "I have passed than a half-century at the national capital." Born in 1838, Logan writes of her early days growing up in southern Illinois through 1913, when this book was first published. A skillful observer, she recounts events that are personal, regional, and national in scope. In charming detail, she shares her courtship and subsequent marriage to a young prosecutor from Jackson County and the births of their children. She writes proudly of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 and her husband’s election to the Thirty-seventh Congress that same year. Logan tells of the coming of the Civil War and of her husband—formerly a Democrat and an enemy of Lincoln—casting his fate with the Union and raising a regiment in southern Illinois. She poignantly describes her brother’s defection to the Confederate Army, her life in war-torn Cairo, Illinois, and her horror at her husband’s severe war wounds. She recounts the battles, the political campaigns, and Lincoln’s reelection and subsequent assassination from her point of view—and, as the wife of a politician and general, hers is a decidedly privileged perspective. In a position to observe and to participate in events ranging from momentous to minute throughout the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she reports the essential episodes of history with the flair of journalism, a career she in fact embraced after the death of her husband. She writes movingly of a wounded captain on the road to recovery who suddenly died when the minié shifted next to his lung, amusingly of the excuses soldiers invented to wrangle a pass to town, and elegantly of her trips to Europe and of the pomp and circumstance of the parties attended by the great men and women of the time. Drawing on events grand and small, she re-creates history as only a skillful writer who was in the right place at the right time could.

This fascinating book tells the stories of four women who became deeply involved in crime, giving vivid chronicles of the times in which they lived.

Autobiografie van een vrouw (1905- ) die op middelbare leeftijd betrokken raakte bij de strijd tegen de apartheid in Zuid-Afrika.

Memoires van een vrouw van Zwitsers-Iraanse komaf, die een aantal jaren gehuwd was met een van de broers van Osama bin Laden.

In de zomer van 2008 hoorde Martin Bril dat hij kanker had. Met de energie die bij hem hoorde, ging hij gewoon door met zijn dagelijkse column in "de Volkskrant", zijn tv-optredens en zijn boeken, die steeds hogere oplagen behaalden. Nederland leefde mee met Bril, die af en toe verslag deed van zijn toestand. Soms indringend of ernstig. Soms melancholiek. Vaker met humor. Maar altijd vol met zijn meesterlijke observaties van de mensen en dingen die op zijn pad bleven komen, ook in het ziekenhuis of tijdens het lezen van een bijsluiter. "Het evenwicht" is het unieke, hoogstpersoonlijke verslag van Brils ziekte. Een literair document van grote waarde.

Lillian Ellison, known in the ring as the Fabulous Moolah, is one of wrestling's pioneering veterans and heroines, both in and out of the squared circle. When wrestling first caught the attention of the public, Moolah had a ringside seat. Appearing on the scene in 1949 as a "valet" for some male wrestlers, she was introduced to the crowd as a "slave girl" dressed in revealing leopardskin. But the woman who got into the business for the "moolah" wouldn't remain a valet for long, and soon Moolah turned her humble beginnings into a successful and long-lived career. Growing up in Tookiedoo, South Carolina, Moolah was the youngest of thirteen children -- and the only girl. Surrounded by twelve rambunctious brothers, she had to be tough from the get-go. After the death of their mother when she was just ten years old, Moolah and her father spent Tuesday nights at local professional wrestling matches. At first she was just excited to do something special with her father. But everything changed when Mildred Burke (one of the most popular "lady rasslers" of the day) came to town. After years of being surrounded by boys, Moolah had finally found a woman she could look up to. From that night on, Moolah was hooked. She stayed in the ring throughout the 1950s and 1960s, even though technically women were banned from wrestling "for their own good." When the Women's Division of the National Wrestling Alliance was failing, Moolah started training girls at her home base in South Carolina, and by the late sixties the girls she had trained at Girl Wrestling Enterprises represented the single largest group of female wrestlers in the country. Soon the National Wrestling Alliance recognized her as the undisputed Women's Champ, a title she would hold for the next twenty years. Here, for the first time, the Fabulous Moolah tells all, from her friendship with the infamous Jerry Lee Lewis to a marriage proposal from country-music legend Hank Williams Sr. Moolah dishes plenty of wrestling dirt as well and relates hilarious moments from her decades long friendship with her in-ring cohort Mae Young. After more than half a century of wrestling, Moolah still trains girls for the ring and even manages to get into the ring herself now and again. She is a role model for strong women everywhere, and she will go down in history as one of wrestling's all-time greats.

Autobiografie van de echtgenote (1954) van Labour-politicus Tony Blair, van 1997 tot 2007 premier van Groot-Brittannië.

Eerste deel van een autobiografische trilogie waarin de Franse schrijver (1832-1885) zijn jeugd in een streng, provinciaals milieu beschrijft.

With an engraving of Lord Herbert by J. Cochran as frontispiece.

dagboek en commentaar daarop uit Chinees werkkamp onder MAO.

Een man in Boedapest moet in 1936 een experimentele hersenoperatie ondergaan en doet daarvan verslag.

Autobiografie van een alleenstaande moeder die, als ze hoort dat ze binnen afzienbare tijd aan kanker zal overlijden, zelf actief op zoek gaat naar een pleeggezin voor haar vier kinderen.

Persoonlijk verslag van de Bulgaarse verpleegster die samen met enkele collega's ervan beschuldigd werd opzettelijk kinderen met het hiv-virus te hebben besmet en daarvoor in een Libische gevangenis belandde.

Waargebeurd, autobiografisch verhaal over een intense relatie tussen vader en zoon, die eindigde door een vliegtuigcrash die alleen door de elfjarige zoon werd overleefd.

Autobiografie van de Spaanse tenor (1946- ).