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Lang Syne Publishers Ltd Davis: The Origins of the Davis Family and Their
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Lang Syne Publishers Ltd McAlpine: The Origins of the McAlpines and Their
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The King's England Press Family Fables: How to Write and Publish the Story
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Heddon Publishing Memories of Post-War Liverpool: Living, Learning,
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Saraband The Last Lancer: A story of loss and survival in
Book SynopsisAn intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 on his aristocratic family’s large estate, near Lwow, now Ukrainian Lviv. He was the son of a charismatic Polish lancer: one of the skilled cavalrymen who were proud of their descent from the legendary ‘winger hussars’ with their spectacular eagle feather armour. After an idyllic and undeniably privileged rural childhood, family and military upheavals would change Julian’s life forever. His eccentric and artistic family were torn apart by successive Soviet and German occupations. His teenage years involved work as a courier for the Resistance, participation in the Warsaw Uprising, and a spell in a Nazi labour camp. Fortunate to escape with his life, he made his way to the UK as a refugee, where he married and eventually acquired British citizenship. But an intense affection for the vanished people and places of his childhood memories remained. In 2022, Putin's war in Ukraine and the sight of refugees passing through Lviv added urgency to his writer daughter Catherine's project of a lifetime, to try to uncover for herself everything that had been lost a generation before. The Last Lancer pieces together beguiling glimpses of how the Czerkawski family lived and died in a region with a proud but turbulent history. It sheds light on their trauma, at the same time offering a deep, personal understanding of what was, and continues to be, a troubled place.Trade Review'Poignant and powerful. One family's history comes into sharp focus against the tragic events of the present.' -- Olga Wojtas
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Joshua Tree Publishing Finding the Lost Art of Family Storytelling: A
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Hachette Livre - BNF Recherches Généalogiques Sur Les Familles Nobles
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Hachette Livre - BNF Souvenirs Ancienne Famille. La Maison de
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Hansebooks Descendants of John Pitman: The First of the Name
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Hansebooks Genealogy of the Thrall Family: Also of the Rose
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Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh Neues allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexikon
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Alpha Edition A Genealogical Record Of The Descendants Of
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Urbanus Rhegius Press Urbanus Rhegius, German Protestant Reformer: A
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Academic Studies Press The Kahans from Baku: A Family Saga
Book SynopsisThe Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian economy, especially in the oil industry. The entrepreneur and family patriarch, Chaim Kahan, was a pious and enlightened man and a Zionist. His children followed in his footsteps in business as well as in politics, philanthropy, and love of books. The book takes us through their forced migration in times of war, revolution, and the twentieth century’s totalitarian regimes, telling the story of fortune and misfortune of one cohesive family over four generations through Russia, Germany, Denmark, and France, and finally on to Palestine and the United States of America.Trade Review“Verena Dohrn’s book presents a complex transnational story of Jewish oil merchants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, contributing to the growing scope of research on Jewish family businesses in East and Central Europe. … This book will be an interesting read for a broad audience, providing an intimate insight into the private life of oil magnates in turbulent historical times. It may also introduce a new perspective on Jewish business elites to academic readers. The Kahan story transcends the stereotypical divisions between East and West, showing the example of the well-managed business family corporation, which managed to integrate into a few imperial and national contexts of different countries and adapt to the new situations while preserving their complex cultural integrity.”— Vladyslava Moskalets, Business History“Jewish entrepreneurs played a major role in economic development in late Imperial Russia, and the oil barons of the Kahan family were among the most important. And the least studied—until 2018, when Verena Dohrn published her pioneering monograph in German, now being made available in English translation. The research is massive: the book uses family archives (with thousands of documents) as well as state repositories in fourteen countries, complemented by oral history and the contemporary press. All this allows Dohrn to provide a detailed narrative that explains how the family was able to thrive before the 1917 revolution and then to survive after its emigration to the West. Not only specialists but general readers will discover a rich narrative of this family’s everyday life and successful business activities.”—Gregory L. Freeze, Raymond Ginger Professor of History, Brandeis University“This fascinating family history takes the reader across countries and continents during the turbulent period of European wars and revolutions, from a small Belarusian shtetl to Baku, Moscow, Petrograd, Berlin, and then on to Tel Aviv and New York. The Kahans were successful entrepreneurs, generous philanthropists and cultural activists who left their mark on modern Jewish life and culture. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written by Verena Dohrn, a prominent German historian of Russian Jewry, this study is not only an important contribution to Jewish history and transnational diaspora studies, but also a captivating reading in its own right."—Mikhail Krutikov, University of MichiganTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface — Jonah Gavrieli In Memoriam Eli Rosenberg — Noa RosenbergTranslator’s Foreword — Uri Themal 1. Jacob Kahan: Imprisoned. Berlin2. Chaim Kahan. From Orlya to Brest-Litovsk3. Life under War Conditions. Berlin4. On the Move. Vilna, Warsaw, Kharkov, Saratov... 5. Citizenship and the World of Education—Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt, Marburg, Antwerp6. To Baku7. Zina and the Oilfields. Baku8. Aron and the Black Gold. Baku9. Summer Resorts during the War. Bad Harzburg, Bad Neuenahr, Bad Polzin10. Economic Management in Times of War and Revolution. Petrograd11. Across the Front Line—Berlin, Warsaw, Baku, Moscow, Vilna, Kharkov, Kiev12. Expulsion from Russia. Baku, Kharkov, Yekaterinoslav, Moscow13. Fresh Start in the West: Caucasian Oil Company. Copenhagen, Berlin, London, Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven14. Family in Exile. Berlin15. Nitag. Berlin16. Devotion to Books. Petrograd, Vilna, Berlin17. 36 Schlüterstrasse. Expulsion from Paradise. Berlin18. The Mavericks between the Wars—European Corporate Networks: Berlin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, London, Riga, Paris, Amsterdam19. The Third Expulsion. Paris, Lisbon20. Eretz Israel. Tel Aviv21. Sanctuaries. The Family Is Alive. New York, Tel Aviv, Ma’agan MichaelIllustrationsNotes
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LEGARE STREET PR Our Family Affairs 18671896
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Prepare to Publish Ltd Family History Record Book: An 8-generation
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LEGARE STREET PR The Chiefs of Colquhoun and Their Country Volume 1
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LEGARE STREET PR Fairbairns Crests Of The Families Of Great Britain And Ireland And Their Kindred In Other Lands Volumes 12
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LEGARE STREET PR The History And Antiquities Of The County Of Buckingham Volume 1
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Brus Family in England and Scotland,
Book SynopsisSurvey of the activities of one of the most important cross-Border families, the ancestors of Robert the Bruce. Robert de Brus, the "conquisitor of Cleveland, Hartness and Annandale", who came into England among the followers of Henry I, was also a close companion and mentor of David I, king of Scots. The lands he acquired from bothkings were divided between his sons, from whom two lines descended: the lords of Skelton, influential Northerners who played an active part during the baronial troubles in the reigns of John and Henry III, and the prominent cross-Border lords of Annandale, co-heirs of the substantial Chester and Huntingdon estates and progenitors of King Robert Bruce. This study takes a fresh approach to the Brus family by assessing the achievements of the two lines in parallel while examining the extent of their power and the development of their lordships; it highlights the inter-relations between the barons of England and Scotland during two hundred years of comparative peace between the kingdoms. Of additional interest is the appendix of an extensive handlist of charters of the Brus family of both lines. It will be a welcome addition to the existing body of works on English baronial families and on Anglo-Scottish cross-Border lords of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.Trade ReviewAs a further contribution to the literature on those individuals and their kinsmen who operated in the multiple kingdoms of the British Isles, the book does its job with clarity and concision, offering a sensible and unglamorous survey of its principal themes. As the first monograph devoted to Robert de Brus and his descendants, it will rightly serve as the new point of reference for the Bruses and their lands. * EHR *Does an admirable job of uncovering the origins and development of the Brus clan. [...] A well-written, detailed and valuable book, and deserves to be read by anyone either with an interest in Border life and politics, or the larger Anglo-Scottish situation in the later Middle Ages. * YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL *A rewarding illumination of a specific medieval baronial family. * THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST *A highly impressive monograph on the neglected history of the Brus family. [...] Dr Blakely's remarkable success in creating an intelligible narrative from some highly complex charter evidence makes this perhaps the most persuasive and enjoyable of all dynastic histories of the North. * NORTHERN HISTORY *Magisterial. [...] All those interested in King Robert I of Scotland will regard this book as the definitive study of the family which produced him. * TRANSACTIONS of the DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY *This impressive book is a welcome exception to the well-rehearsed claim of historians (and their publishers) that their research 'fills an important gap' in current scholarship. * HISTORY *
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Lang Syne Publishers Ltd The Armstrongs: The Origins of the Clan Armstrong
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Forgotten Books Die Wustungen Im Nordthuringgau
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Lang Syne Publishers Ltd The Campbells: The Origins of the Clan Campbell
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John Blake Publishing Ltd Blood on the Thistle: The Tragic Story of the
Book SynopsisBlood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe. Of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifi ce on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days. This is the tale of how a once proud and aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.Trade Review'An impossibly sad story' - THE SCOTSMAN 'A movingly re-imagined history' - FAMILY TREE
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LEGARE STREET PR The Perrys of Rhode Island and Tales of Silver Creek
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LEGARE STREET PR The Larimer McMasters and Allied Families
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Sirius Entertainment Celtic Names
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LEGARE STREET PR A History of two Virginia Families Transplanted From County Kent England. Thomas Baytop Tenterden 1638 and John Catlett Sittingbourne 1622
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LEGARE STREET PR Schoonmaker Family Births Marriages and Deaths Copied From old Church and Cemetery Records
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LEGARE STREET PR The Chiefs of Colquhoun and Their Country Volume 2
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LEGARE STREET PR Genealogical Biographical and Pictorial History of the Bettschen Family and its Connections
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc My Dogs Life
Book SynopsisWith over a hundred thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts, places for pictures, and more, My Dog’s Life celebrates everything that makes your dog so amazing!
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Archway Publishing Scottish Clans and Their Associated Families:
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LEGARE STREET PR Memoirs of the Binghams
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Clearfield People of Moray Banff and Nairn 17001799
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Four Courts Press Ltd Royal Irish Constabulary Officers: A Biographical
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Lang Syne Publishers Ltd Chisholm: The Origins of the Clan Chisholm and
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Lang Syne Publishers Ltd Your Name – Your Tartan: A guide to clan and
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Lang Syne Publishers Ltd McCall: The Origins of the McCalls and Their
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Alpha Edition Short And Imperfect Sketch Of The Blair Family;
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Alpha Edition A Compendious History Of New-England: To Which Is
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Alpha Edition A Collection Of Coats Of Arms Borne By The
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Penguin Books Ltd My Fathers Daughter
Book SynopsisA powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time.What a story. So vivid, honest and moving'' Andrea Levy, author of Small Island''When I stepped off the plane in Asmara, I had no idea what lay ahead, or how those events would change me . . .''In her twenties, Hannah-Azieb Pool is given a letter that unravels everything she knows about her life. She knew she was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea, and as her adoptive family brought her to the UK, they believed she did not have any surviving relatives.When she discovers the truth in a letter from her brother - that her birth father is alive and her Eritrean family are desperate to meet her - she is faced with a critical choice.Should she go?In this intimate memoir, she takes us with her on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery, as she travels to Eritr
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Twelveheads Press Caradon Looe
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Helmn Ancestor Press A History of the Lancastrian Helmes
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge KJV Family Chronicle Bible Brown Calfskin Leather Over Boards Limited Numbered Edition
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