Category: Biographies & Memoirs

The Warrior Widows : Real life stories of valiant wives of Indian soldiers by Ambreen Zaidi
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Overview: The book “The Warrior Widows” is a tribute to the Wives of the soldiers of the Armed Forces who are engaged in defending the country from internal and external threats. Everyone knows the sacrifices a soldier has to make in terms of family life, personal comfort, and perpetual exposure to the ultimate sacrifice. However, the role and contribution of a wife in a soldier’s life are seldom highlighted and mostly forgotten. When a soldier dies, the wife transients into a state called ‘Widowhood’.

As an army wife, I was always drawn towards the issues of war widows and their wards. During our regiments monthly welfare centers or the Corps day functions, I would look out for them, sit with them, hear them out and then help them in whichever way I could. One emotion that united them all, was that they were indeed broken by the tragedy but not beaten. These valiant women are the force behind our soldiers and carry on with their duties long after he has laid down his life for the nation.

The idea of writing a book on the valiant war widows came to my mind long back and I had started penning down my thoughts. It was only 2.5 years ago that I met a widow of my husband’s senior and brilliantly she took on the life post his being killed in action.

The world of these widows is totally different, given the stigma attached to being a widow especially in our country with its old customs and traditions. Many widows are left to fend for themselves and many succumb to the bleak situation which stares at them. However, many of the widows show great resolve and determination to overcome the personal loss and move on to create a future for themselves regardless of the support they received from the environment and society. This book brings out the sacrifices, struggles, and personal journeys of the strong-willed women who succeeded in creating their own success stories.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs

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Saint-Exupery: A Biography by Stacy Schiff
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Overview: From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story The Little Prince, still the most translated book in the French language.

An impoverished aristocrat from one of France’s oldest families, Saint-Exupéry moved at age twenty-seven to the western Sahara Desert, to live alone in a plank shack and manage the way station for the Aéropostale, the French mail service. His careers as a novelist and an aviator were born here, and his life once he returned to Europe was defined with brilliant and catastrophic results by the sense of isolated fascination and curiosity he developed in the desert.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs

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A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections by J. E. Austen-Leigh
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Overview: James Edward Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward’s two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all subsequent accounts. These are family memories, the record of Jane Austen’s life shaped and limited by the loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age the outlines of the young aunt they had each known. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography

functions.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs

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Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
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Overview: With original artworks throughout, an extraordinary fusion of memoir and artistic biography from the acclaimed artist and author of Self-Portrait.

Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artifice. I know you are dead and that I’m alive and that no usual communication is possible between us but, as my mother used to say, “Time is a strange substance” and who knows really, with our time-bound comprehension of the world, whether there might be some channel by which we can speak to each other, if we only knew how.

Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John centers on a series of letters addressed to the Welsh painter Gwen John (1876–1939), who has long been a tutelary spirit for Paul. John spent much of her life in France, making art on her own terms and, like Paul, painting mostly women. John’s reputation was overshadowed during her lifetime by her brother, Augustus John, and her lover Auguste Rodin. Through the epistolary form, Paul draws fruitful comparisons between John’s life and her own: their shared resolve to protect the sources of their creativity, their fierce commitment to painting, and the ways in which their associations with older male artists affected the public’s reception of their work.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs

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Another Side of France by Dave Taylor-Jones
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Overview: In 1966, Dave Taylor-Jones met a French girl in Paris who became one of the most influential people in his life. Christine and her family introduced him to the French lifestyle, food, and their unique way of looking at the world. Through them, he learnt to speak French (almost), bought a flat near Nice, found a job in Monaco and moved to live in France, all of which helped him to dispel the stereotypical image that some British people have of the French. Another Side of France records some of his experiences of French life in a humourous manner, and contains both essays and stories, presented like two sides of a coin, alternating slices of fiction with his life experiences. The fiction includes ghost stories, with the haunting of Nice’s Terra Amata Museum, the Parisian Metro, and a local medieval chateau. There are also stories are about working in Monaco, the joys of air travel, auctions of Impressionist masters and knowing your own limits of compassion. Dave’s essays capture how…
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs

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