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Society typically dictates what we deem a success story. Sometimes a success story is defined by an individual's ability to overcome hardship and struggle to later become moguls and multi-millionaires. Other times success stories are defined by average, ordinary people who survive extrordinary ordeals.

Photocopied Photographs, Original Computer Typewritten Letter, Photocopied Typewritten letter. This well written autobiography covers all of Downs' life. The first few chapters relate his family life and childhood, then he moves on to his military training and experiences during World War II. These experiences vary from his role as a navigator on a B-17 flight crew to his two year imprisonment in German prisoner of war camps. His stories of how he and other crew members and officers survived, kept themselves busy, and lived the day to day existence of prisoners of war are fascinatingly well detailed and recorded. He records their liberation at the hands of General Patton and his recovery back in the United States. In the last few chapters of the book he details his accomplishments and personal life as an officer in the Air Force after its creation from the Army Air Corps.

Biography of John Winston Coleman, Jr., born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1852.

Winston Churchill is arguably the most famous Briton, but a shroud of mystery still surrounds him and his family. From Sir Randolph's alleged syphilis to Winston's illegitimacy, and from Jennie's gambling problem to Jack's dashed ambitions, authors Celia and John Lee use never before seen archives to cut through the rumors and lies and get to the truth about the life of the former prime minister and his relationship with his family. Chock full of intrigue and scandal, The Churchills finally sets the record straight regarding one of the world's greatest dynasties.

During the roaring twenties, a widow becomes the recipient of her sociopathic husband's estate. Sequel to The house of many windows.