Diary Biography

On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were violently murdered, leading to the arrest and trial of former NFL player, O.J. Simpson. The “Trial of the Century” soon turned into a spectacle on both sides of the aisle—and in the jury box itself! In this personal account by a juror who was dismissed before the trial ended, Michael Knox provides a unique look—as both insider and outsider—of this volatile case that divided a country.

Ein Glücksfall für die Historiker: Harry Graf Kessler (1868 - 1937) beschreibt das Zeitgeschehen im Jahr 1928. Das Erscheinen seines Rathenau-Buches schlägt hohe Wellen. Der Kulturbetrieb ist begeistert. Aber der Geheimdienst beanstandet Textpassagen und diplomatische Verstimmungen werden ausgelöst. Ansonsten ist "der Gesellschaftsmensch" Kessler sehr umtriebig. Oft in Frankreich aber auch in Berlin. Zum Beispiel zur Aufführung der brandneuen "Dreigroschenoper". Berührend ist das Wiedersehen mit dem Tänzer Vaslav Nijinsky.

Ein Glücksfall für die Historiker: Harry Graf Kessler (1868 - 1937) beschreibt das Zeitgeschehen im Jahr 1929. Es ist schwieriges Jahr. Zwei weitere Freunde sterben: Hugo von Hoffmannsthal und Sergei Djaghilew, und zusammen mit dem Tod des beliebtesten Europäers Gustav Stresemann schließt sich für Kessler "seine Epoche" ab. Es ist sein "Année terrible". Zudem erscheint "Im Westen nichts Neues" von Erich Maria Remarque und der Knabe Jehudi Menuhin erstaunt allgemein mit seinen Beethoveninterpretationen auf der Geige.

Questa è l'ultima opera in prosa di Wilde, scritta quando l'autore era in carcere per omosessualità. Entrato nel carcere nel 1895, l'uomo di genio divenne agli occhi di tutti un obbrobrio. La sua ricchissima raccolta di mobili e oggetti preziosi vennero venduti all'asta. Molti suoi libri furono bruciati e le rappresentazioni dei suoi drammi proibite.

Goethes Briefwechsel mit Christiane Vulpius, seiner langjährigen Lebensgefährtin und späteren Ehefrau, ist ein echtes Juwel, literarischer Ausdruck einer innigen Liebe auf Augenhöhe. Petra Blossey (Hauptdarstellerin der Fernsehserie "Unter Uns") interpretiert als Christiane Vulpius empathisch gemeinsam mit ihrem Kollegen Stefan Bockelmann als Erzähler und Michael Kirch als Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Die einzigartigen Briefe wurden von Michail Krausnick ausgewählt und mit aufschlussreichen historischen Anmerkungen versehen.

Marcel Proust fut un correspondant maniaque. Dès l'enfance, puis dans le monde, jusqu'à sa mort, sans trêve il a écrit : à ses proches, à ses amis, aux lecteurs de ses livres, à ses éditeurs, ses banquiers... Les milliers de lettres qu'il a écrites traitent des sujets les plus variés : souvenirs, confidences intimes, politique, impressions de lecture, critiques d'art. Ce livre audio rassemble ses premières lettres depuis son enfance jusqu'à son adolescence.

Natürlich: geliebt wird auch heute noch. Die einschlägigen Beteuerungen hingegen werden zu FreeCall-Tarifen übermittelt, werden "gesimst" oder stranden in den Spam-Filtern der Adressaten. Die große, die klassische Form des Liebesbriefes erscheint dagegen geradezu rührend anachronistisch.

Friedrich Hölderlin war ein Dichter, der um 1800 an der Enge seines Alltags zu ersticken glaubte. Die zweite Hälfte seines Lebens verbrachte Hölderlin allein in einem Turmzimmer in Tübingen - in geistiger Zerrüttung. Über hundert Jahre mussten vergehen, bis sein Talent erkannt wurde. Heute zählt Hölderlin zu den bedeutendsten Lyrikern der Literaturgeschichte. Das belegen auch seine Briefe - adressiert an Familie, Freunde und berühmte Zeitgenossen. Reiner Unglaub ermöglicht mit seiner Lesung mitunter intime Einblicke in Hölderlins Leben.

During his two terms as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record, the only daily Presidential diary in American history, is available for the first time.

Exactly 100 years ago, a sensitive woman naturalist, nature lover, and accomplished artist began to chronicle all that she encountered while walking and cycling around the countryside of her native England and neighboring Scotland.

This abridged audio edition of the Diaries, read by the author, conveys even more directly than the Diaries themselves the achievements, conflicts, and dramatic events in a unique political life.

Assata Olugbala Shakur is a former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), who was convicted of being an accomplice in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. Shakur was also the target of the FBI's COINTELPRO (counterintelligence program) directed against Black Power movement groups and activists.

Anne Frank is one of the most famous individuals of the 20th century for the worst possible reason. Joseph Stalin is often quoted as saying one death is a tragedy and a million is a statistic, and while plenty of people might argue with the sentiment expressed, there's no question that Anne Frank in many ways became the face of the Holocaust.

If you like Max Hastings and World War II naval history, then you will love this autobiography, which gives an easy-to-understand insider view of life in the Royal Navy during the war. Ronnie Turner had set his sights on a career with the Royal Navy, and like Ant Middleton, he wouldn't stop until he'd achieved his goal of having "a smack at the boche". Drawn from Ronnie's illegal war diary, this enjoyable tale of pocket battleships, torpedoed crews, and Admiral Harwood's tattoos, all sprinkled with Spike Milligan-like humor, make this a story you won't want to put down.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is perhaps the most well known collection of reminiscences. He maintained it, in secrecy, from 1660, the year of the Restoration, until 1669 when fear of blindness prevented his daily labours. Though it covers less than a decade, it offers a lively and detailed insight into a period and a personality, for he noted events in both public and private life. Famous passages include descriptions of The Plague and the Great Fire of London.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial se alza en su inmensidad y complejidad sobre el resto de la historia humana. Un número de víctimas difícil de concebir, jamás superado por ningún otro con?icto; las masas de hombres, mujeres y recursos movilizados en una guerra que sacudió hasta los con?nes más remotos del planeta; la batalla ideológica entre el totalitarismo y la democracia, entre el fascismo y el comunismo, las pasiones y odios que despertó; el horror inimaginable y el fanatismo del holocausto; los juegos geopolíticos...

Based on true events and the untold story of the United States of America protecting one of Iraqi's most valuable assets! My diary while living on and protecting an Iraq oil platform in the Persian Gulf, by a US Navy veteran.

Letters from Bud is the remarkable firsthand account of the harrowing air war in Europe as told by WW2 flight navigator and bombardier John “Bud” Brandenburg, in his letters home during the conflict, from 1944-45. With guts, wit, and grace, Brandenburg records his experiences with the daring “Koltun crew”, which flew 30 missions over Europe. Through numerous strokes of fate, the crew survived a run of missions with the “bloody” 492nd Bomb Group, a unit that endured an 80 percent casualty rate as the men faced down the seemingly unstoppable German Luftwaffe.

Quattro storie di giovani che, di fronte all’insorgere di malattie mortali hanno saputo offrire la loro vita e le loro sofferenze a Gesù: Chiara Luce Badano, Carlo Acutis, Angelica Tiraboschi e Matteo Farina. L'audiolibro contiene una breve biografia di ciascuno e una selezione di brani dei loro scritti a modo di diario. Un audiolibro da ascoltare carichi di tutte le domande che abbiamo nel punto della vita in cui ci troviamo. Non impareremo cose nuove, ma vedremo le cose nuove dentro la carne viva di questi quattro ragazzi di cui ci viene offerta la testimonianza.

In 1968, Cynthia, an American mother, and Suresh, an Indian father, accompanied by their two-year-old son, Ajay, travel to India to present themselves to Suresh’s relatives for the first time. Cynthia faithfully captures in her personal diary all that she experiences and her honest reactions to it.