On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation. Białoszewski's blow-by-blow account of the uprising brings it al…
From the perspective of village activists across China, this book tells the stories of farmers and rural laborers who raised the banner of opposition to constitutional reform during the first decade of the twentieth century. Using county archives-including oral histories-as well…
The author covers the 1813 uprising by religious sects calling themselves the Eight Trigrams by using over 400 confessions from captured rebels. The personal accounts reveal the religious beliefs and everyday lives of the participants.
On the life and achievements of James Long, 1814-1887, missionary from Ireland.
On the life and achievements of James Long, 1814-1887, missionary from Ireland. The Rev. James Long was one of the most remarkable Protestant missionaries working in India in the nineteenth century. Sent to Calcutta at the age of 22 in 1840, he devoted his life to representing …
