This book presents the diary of Captain Thomas Douglas Whitcombe, a young English gunnery officer who in 1827 participated as a volunteer in an expedition to relieve the Turkish siege of the Acropolis of Athens.

The product of three decades of research, this is the definitive biography of Lord Selkirk.

Douglass standing as the "father of medicare" and the first leader of the federal New Democratic Party earned him the title of "Greatest Canadian," as voted by CBC-TV viewers in 2004.

Vision and eloquence, two qualities valued most in a political leader, were what Tommy Douglas was all about, Social policies, taken for granted today--medicare, a national pension plan, bargaining rights for civil servants, a Wheat Board ...

Thomas Douglas Adelman looks back at an eventful life in this engaging memoir about growing up in a Jewish family and becoming a successful producer and director.

Late Judge of the Supreme Court of Florida Thomas Douglas. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS DOUGLAS . I was born at Wallingsford , in the State of Connecticut , on the 27th day of April , 1790 , of poor , honest parents . My father's christian ...