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The Years Flew Past: 40 Years at the Leading Edge of Aviation: 2001 Robert K. Morgan: The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot: 2001 Peter Masefield: Flight Path: The Autobiography of Sir Peter Masefield: 2002 Donald L. Mallick: Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey: 2003 Bernard F. Fisher
Roy Pascal differentiates autobiography from the periodic self-reflective mode of journal or diary writing by noting that "[autobiography] is a review of a life from a particular moment in time, while the diary, however reflective it may be, moves through a series of moments in time". [3] Autobiography thus takes stock of the autobiographer's ...
There were extraordinary ministers preaching from place to place and a strange concern among the white people. This was in the spring of the year. But we saw nothing of these things, till some time in the summer, when some ministers began to visit us and preach the word of God. ~Occom [3]
During Shetty’s pivot years, he read more. Learning about the people we idolize and their setbacks, unexpected turns, and utter failures has taught him the power of betting on yourself.
Churchill aged 21 as a subaltern in the 4th Hussars, 1895. The introduction notes that Churchill endeavoured to write the book from his point of view at the time of the events, but it contains different commentaries on the events described in the other books, many of which were originally written as contemporary newspaper columns.
Life writing has been evident for nearly 2,000 years. St Augustine's autobiographical work being one example from the late 4th century AD. Margery Kempe, an early 15th-century English woman, is believed to have written the first autobiography in the English language, though it was a production that depended upon the help of scribes. This text ...
For our list, we chose classic books written in the 20th century or earlier, and every book on this list is more than 25 years old. We combed through best-seller lists of old to dig up books that ...
72 quarto pages. Describes the first 27 years of his life. C: Memoirs of the life and writings of Edward Gibbon (1789). 41 folio pages plus insert. Describes the first 35 years of his life. D: [Untitled] (1790–1791). 13 folio pages. Describing the first 35 years of his life. E: My own Life (c. 1792–1793). 19 folio pages of text, and twelve ...