Oral history books

1314 books were found.

Revolution Remembered: Seditious Memories After the British Civil Wars

Revolution Remembered: Seditious Memories After the...

Author: Edward Legon
ISBN: 9781526160737
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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The Patriarch, Caldwell & Company, and Me, Shirley

The Patriarch, Caldwell & Company, and Me, Shirley

Author: Shirley Caldwell-Patterson ,  William M Akers
ISBN: 9780578538037
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Shirley Caldwell-Patterson led an extraordinary life. This is her memoir.  Read More >>

Remembering Theodore Roosevelt: Reminiscences of his Contemporaries

Remembering Theodore Roosevelt: Reminiscences of his...

Author: Michael Patrick Cullinane
ISBN: 9783030692957
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories...  Read More >>

London's Aylesbury Estate: An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle'

London's Aylesbury Estate: An Oral History of the 'Concrete...

Author: Michael Romyn
ISBN: 9783030514792
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book looks beyond the Aylesbury’s public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those...  Read More >>

The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945

The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945

Author: Catrine Clay
ISBN: 9781474607896
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Award-winning historian Catrine Clay tells the gripping stories of six ordinary Germans who witnessed the rise of...  Read More >>

Raising Laughter: How the Sitcom Kept Britain Smiling in the ‘70s

Raising Laughter: How the Sitcom Kept Britain Smiling...

Author: Robert Sellers
ISBN: 9780750996587
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This is the first book detailing the history of the golden age of the British sitcom, the 1970s, through the voices...  Read More >>

Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)

Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary...

Author: Damon DiMarco ,  Governor George Pataki
ISBN: 9781595801029
Format: Paperback
$73.79

20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition of one of the bestselling and most critically acclaimed books on 9/11 ever...  Read More >>

'The Age-Old Struggle': Irish republicanism from the Battle of the Bogside to the Belfast Agreement, 1969-1998

'The Age-Old Struggle': Irish republicanism from the...

Author: Jack Hepworth
ISBN: 9781800855397
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This is a wide-ranging analysis of the internal dynamics of Irish republicanism between the outbreak of ‘the Troubles’...  Read More >>

Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000

Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000

Author: Kate Kerrow ,  Rebecca Mordan
ISBN: 9780750995177
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Previously undocumented testimonies telling stories of love, laughter, adventure and activism from the Greenham...  Read More >>

The Long Silence: The Story of James Hanratty and the A6 Murder by Valerie Storie, the Woman Who Lived to Tell the Tale

The Long Silence: The Story of James Hanratty and the...

Author: Paul Stickler
ISBN: 9780750996761
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Valerie Storie, the survivor of the infamous A6 Murder, was victim shamed for over 50 years. This is her story,...  Read More >>

The Scariff Martyrs: War, Murder and Memory in East Clare

The Scariff Martyrs: War, Murder and Memory in East...

Author: Dr. Tomás Mac Conmara
ISBN: 9781781177259
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Journey back to 1920 with the memories of a 105-year-old woman recounting the haunting incident of the 'Scariff...  Read More >>

Wartime Suffering and Survival: The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944

Wartime Suffering and Survival: The Human Condition...

Author: Jeffrey K. Hass (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Richmond)
ISBN: 9780197514276
Format: Hardback
$84.95

During the 872-day siege of Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1944, civilians endured air raids, bread rations...  Read More >>

The Storyteller's Supper: A Feast of Food Folk Tales

The Storyteller's Supper: A Feast of Food Folk Tales...

Author: Taffy Thomas ,  Dotty Kultys
ISBN: 9780750996693
Format: Hardback
$32.99

A feast of folk tales about food, with a foreword from Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement  Read More >>

Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont

Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia...

Author: Marek Bennett Francis Bordeleau ,  Joel Christian Gill Lillie Harris
ISBN: 9780916718015
Format: Paperback
$42.11

About the Book: Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont features the...  Read More >>

Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories

Great Australian Volunteer Firies Stories

Author: Bill Marsh
ISBN: 9780733340086
Format: Paperback
$34.99

'Us firefighters do more than fight fires. We also assist those who have just gone through what's probably the worst...  Read More >>

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches...

Author: Scott McKinnon ,  Margaret Cook
ISBN: 9789811543845
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both...  Read More >>

The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 on the 20th Anniversary

The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11...

Author: Garrett M. Graff
ISBN: 9781913183417
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the definitive and bestselling first-person account of the...  Read More >>

Italian Women's Experiences with American Consumer Culture, 1945–1975: The Italian Mrs. Consumer

Italian Women's Experiences with American Consumer Culture,...

Author: Jessica L. Harris
ISBN: 9783030478278
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book analyzes the spread of American female consumer culture to Italy and its influence on Italian women in...  Read More >>

As Long As I Hope to Live: The moving, true story of a Jewish girl and her schoolfriends under Nazi occupation

As Long As I Hope to Live: The moving, true story of...

Author: Claudia Carli
ISBN: 9781529385922
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The true and moving holocaust story of Jewish schoolgirl Alie Lopes Dias and the fate of her schoolfriends in Amsterdam....  Read More >>

From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust

From Ashes to Life: My Memories of the Holocaust

Author: Lucille Eichengreen
ISBN: 9781562790523
Format: Paperback
$47.39

A disturbing yet inspirational account of the author's experiences in Nazi Germany and Poland during the time of...  Read More >>

China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World

China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the...

Author: Liang Hong
ISBN: 9781839765568
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small...  Read More >>

China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World

China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the...

Author: Liang Hong
ISBN: 9781839761775
Format: Hardback
$39.99

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small...  Read More >>

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