Ergebnis für "Victory" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food, ranging from rural Berkshire to wartime London, via Belle Epoque Paris and prohibition-era New York. While Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, her accomplishments, and the life she lived, were anything but. She started her career as a nursemaid and ended it cooking for one of the best-known figures in British history, Winston Churchill, a man to whom food was central as a diplomatic tool in a time when the world was embroiled in a worldwide war.

Cancer is a killer. It stormed onto the scene, showing no remorse. Colin and his family were no match for what they were up against. Face to face with tragedy, they were left with a choice. Would they cower down and "hang on tight", hoping the inevitable passed them by? Or, in the midst of adversity, would they rise up and overcome what was meant to destroy them?

Brought to you by Penguin. 1804, immediately after his coronation as Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the supreme martial rank of the empire. Over the next decade, he elevated to it some of his most outstanding generals, who played leading roles in his extraordinary campaigns –...

""Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu."" -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO An Economist Book of the Year 2019 An urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare—past, present and future—and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne...

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling biographer vividly captures how Napoleon Bonaparte and his team of rivals blazed a path onto the world stage. After crowning himself Emperor in May 1804, Napoleon appointed twenty-six men Marshals of the Empire, a position he created to honor his...

The thrilling true tale of Australia's greatest victory in our longest war. The explosive history of the Commandos and the SAS, and Ben Roberts-Smith's VC. The SAS, THE COMMANDOS AND THE MAKING OF A VICTORIA CROSS 'The corporal made a decision that turned him into the most-famous Australian...

In a lifetime shaped by politics, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proved himself a master manipulator of Congress, the press, and the public. But when war in Europe and Asia threatened America's shores, FDR found himself in a world turned upside down, where his friends became his foes, his enemies his allies. To help wage democracy's first "total war", he turned to one of history's most remarkable triumvirates.

Bloomsbury presents Victory in Australia by Richard Whitehead, read by Oliver Hembrough ‘Such incredibly gripping sports writing. It was like being there. Truly. Every ball’ Giles Coren ‘Elegant and evocative … the definitive word on England’s most astonishing Ashes tour ever’...

Victory Through Prayer – Thriving Beyond the Valley is not just a sequel, it is the next chapter of a living testimony, a continuation of faith, fire, and flourishing. This is the sacred space beyond survival, where wounds heal, identity reshapes, prayers deepen, and purpose emerges.

VOICES OF VICTORY — a special segment of our podcast Love, Mercy, & Grace where real people will share powerful testimonies of what they’ve walked through, how they made it through, and the victories they’ve experienced along the way.Because sometimes, the story you almost didn’t tell is the story someone else desperately needs to hear. Your testimony could be someone else’s breakthrough

What becomes possible when you stop waiting for a cure and take ownership of your healing? In Starving the Wolf: A Victory Over Lupus, Karen Quiros shares a deeply personal journey that challenges conventional narratives around chronic illness and recovery. Nearly 40 years ago, a lupus diagnosis that came with a prognosis of five to seven years “at best” set her on an unexpected path—one that led her to question everything she had been told about chronic illness and the body’s capacity for change.

Bloomsbury presents Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway by David Rigby, read by Keith MacKechnie. During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never...

Few Civil War generals attracted as much debate and controversy as Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. He combined brilliance and charisma with arrogance and histrionics. He was a Catholic Creole in a society dominated by white Protestants, which made him appear exotic next to the likes of Albert Sidney Johnston and Robert E. Lee. He was reviled by Jefferson Davis and mocked by Mary Chesnut in her diary.

This insightful memoir portrays a woman's personal journey through a year of love, loss, and healing as she deals with her husband's cancer diagnosis by turning to nature. 

While Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as 1939, when Germany first attacked Poland, Roosevelt skillfully navigated a host of challenges: a reluctant population, an unprepared military, and disagreements within his cabinet to prepare the country for its inevitable confrontation with the Axis.

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 “Belongs in the library alongside the histories and biographies of Martin Gilbert, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and David McCullough.” —Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers In this epic and definitive history of the American home...

“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. Powell All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt’s Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph...

In August 2006, many senior U.S. officials thought America had lost the war in Iraq, as the senior U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer there wrote that control of al Anbar Province, the seat of the raging Sunni insurgency, was irrevocably lost to the insurgents. In January 2007, the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment deployed to Ramadi as part of the 3rd Infantry Division, the first regular Army unit to deploy to Iraq for a third time. The battalion and its went to work in a campaign that will be seen as the D-Day of the Global War on Terror.

Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific. After retreating from society in response to his professional failures, the misanthrope is drawn back by a romantic affair. (Introduction by S. Kovalchik)

At the age of 16, Jeneen Miller was prosecuted without a fair trial for telling a family-kept secret about a wrongdoing perpetrated at the hands of her uncle. After bravely coming forth to her family, they were not open to the truth. In 1988, Jeneen's parents used trickery to achieve the ultimate betrayal. Instead of the therapy they promised Jeneen, they turned her over to a prison camp in Ramona, California, without any communication. This is an account of Jeneen's battle to redeem herself after being abused by her family and Victory Christian Academy.