Category: Biographies & Memoirs

The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years by Robert Rodriguez
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Overview: It has been fifty years since John, Paul, and George named themselves the Beatles and soon after recruited Ringo Starr. The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years includes fascinating and little-known stories, never-before-published photographs, and nostalgic memorabilia. The book s exclusive documentary, The Beatles: The Golden Age, captures the pandemonium of Beatlemania, from their delirious fans and madcap movies to interviews with each of the Fab Four.

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Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating by Elliot Tiber
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Overview: Palm Trees on the Hudson is the hilarious prequel to Elliot Tiber’s bestseller Taking Woodstock. Before Elliot found financial success by bringing Woodstock Ventures to his upstate motel, he was one of Manhattan’s leading interior designers. Then Elliot’s career came to a halt due to a floating society party, Judy Garland, and the Mob.

In April 1968, Elliot was hired to throw an elegant dinner party aboard a luxury yacht on the Hudson River. Included on the guest list were New York’s rich and famous–politicians, financiers, and even Elliot’s icon, Judy Garland. The big night arrived. But when a fight broke out, resulting in the destruction of everything including the rented palms, Elliot’s event turned into a financial disaster. Things couldn’t get any worse–or so it seemed, until the Mob paid him a visit.

By turns comic and tragic, Palm Trees on the Hudson is the take-no-prisoners memoir that gives readers a more intimate look at the man who went on to fight back at Stonewall and who helped give birth to the Woodstock Nation.

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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
Requirements: .MOBI Reader, 3 MB
Overview: A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR’s formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius, firm leadership, and matchless diplomacy in saving democracy in America during the Great Depression and the American cause of freedom in World War II. Drawing on archival materials, public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, acclaimed bestselling historian and biographer H. W. Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Roosevelt’s life and career.Brands explores the powerful influence of FDR’s dominating mother and the often tense and always unusual partnership between FDR and his wife, Eleanor, and her indispensable contributions to his presidency. Most of all, the book traces in breathtaking detail FDR’s revolutionary efforts with his New Deal legislation to transform the American political economy in order to save it, his forceful—and cagey—leadership before and during World War II, and his lasting legacy in creating the foundations of the postwar international order. Traitor to His Class brilliantly captures the qualities that have made FDR a beloved figure to millions of Americans.

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War (and Peace) Memoirs by Spike Milligan (first 5 Books in the series)
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Overview: When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history — as well as a legion of devoted fans and admirers. His themes ranged from environmental issues to the war, from nostalgia to depression, and his prolific output covers some of the most evocative events of the twentieth century, in a style both twistedly comic and harrowingly honest.

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971)
‘At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked ‘This is your enemy’. I searched every compartment, but he wasn’t on the train’. Spike Milligan’s on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. Bathos, pathos and gales of drunken laughter, and insane military goonery explode in superlative Milliganese

Rommel? Gunner Who? (1974)
This is the second volume of Mr Milligan’s reminiscences of World War II.

Monty: His Part in My Victory (1976)
Britain’s looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five hundred gunners try to dance with two girls and an old French matron…up there in Valhalla, Monty’s laughing fit to burst.

Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall (1978)
Britannia rules the waves TA-RA, but on occasions she waives the rules and Spike is all set to liberate-gasp-Italy. In this fourth volume of war memoirs, Lance-Bombardier Milligan (Spike actually) continues his notorious sage of World War II – from the long remembered outbreak of crabs in monkey to the unfortunate ack-acking of and American killyhawk. Dio mio, is war is a game of cards, someone was cheating.

Where Have All the Bullets Gone? (1985)
Despatched from the front line to psychiatric hospital, and from there to a rehabilitation camp – for bomb happy soldiers – in Afragola, Spike enters a period of khaki limbo away from active service which offers the chance to regroup forces in his own private war against melancholy. As ever, music, zany humour and a little help from his friends – including one, Harry Secombe, a liggle myopic blubber of fat from Wales whom he encounters in Italy – carry him through to his first stage of appearances and on, as history knows and volume 6 will tell, to fortune, overdraft, VAT, Income Tax, mortgages, accountants, solicitors, house agents and so on.Littered with uncensored excerpts from his letters, diaries and documents of the time, Where Have All the Bullets Gone? keeps up the Milligan offensive against the brass hats and their flood of official memoirs with its Tommys eye view of the war. A latterday Good Soldier Schweik, his own brand of goonish and macabre humour amuse and at the same time express the awful bloodiness of war, the unthinking courage of those who fought in it and the flavour of the almost hysterical humour that helped carry Spike and many others through their worst moments.

Goodbye Soldier (1986
In "Goodbye Soldier" the central pool of artists, now rechristened the combined services entertainment, complete with Gunner Milligan, now rechristened Lance-Bombardier, makes its way across Europe, via romantic Rome and verneral Venice, to Vienna where Spike continues to demoralize the troops from the stage despite frenzied protests from Eisenhower, Churchill and Stalin. Hastily discharged from the army in Austria, he returns to naughty Naples for an interval of connubial bliss on Capri with Ballerina. Maria Antoinette Fontana: ‘All except for Eva Maria who I was keeping in reserve’. Finally, farewell to Rome, goodbye soldier and the prospect of return to dreary Deptford where ‘fortune, overdraft, income tax, mortgages, accounts, solicitors, house agents’ awaited.

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Without a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall
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Overview: Meredith Hall’s moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. When he is twenty-one, her lost son finds her. Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father–in her own father’s hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall’s parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. What sets Without a Map apart is the way in which loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom.

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