" Even Thatcher herself wrote in her 1995 memoirs, which charted her beginnings in Grantham to her victory in the 1979 General Election, that she admired Attlee, writing: " Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer.

General Groves noted in his memoirs that " We made certain that each member of the project thoroughly understood his part in the total effort ; that, and nothing more.

In his memoirs, Sherman said, " In my official report of this conflagration I distinctly charged it to General Wade Hampton, and confess I did so pointedly to shake the faith of his people in him, for he was in my opinion a braggart and professed to be the special champion of South Carolina.

However, his conversion to the Republican Party and his cooperation with his old friend, President Ulysses S. Grant, as well as critical comments he wrote in his memoirs about General Lee's wartime performance, made him anathema to many of his former Confederate colleagues.

Bùi Diễm, later South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States, reported in his memoirs that General Lê Văn Kim requested his aid in learning what the U. S. might do about Diệm's government.

In a preface to the first book, Fraser described the discovery of General Flashman's memoirs in an antique tea-chest in a Leicestershire saleroom in 1965.

Though the King claimed in his memoirs that it was the fear of a civil war that motivated his actions, it would seem that he received some ' alternative ' advice, possibly from the archconservative Salandra as well as General Armando Diaz, that it would be better to do a deal with Mussolini.

His first marriage, to Carol Cummings, the daughter of a Marine Corps Brigadier General, lasted 13 years before ending in divorce ( at her request, as he has stated in his memoirs titled " Secrets ").

The public memory of Francis Marion has been shaped in large part by the first biography about him, " The Life of General Francis Marion " written by M. L. Weems ( also known as Parson Weems, 1756 – 1825 ) based on the memoirs of South Carolina officer Peter Horry.

In 1971, he translated the memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen, and in 1973 published The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe, a biography of Luftwaffe Marshal Erhard Milch.

Kruger acknowledged in his memoirs that General Joubert predicted the events that followed afterwards, declaring that instead of rejoicing at the discovery of gold, they should be weeping because it will " cause our land to be soaked in blood ".

* La bataille de Friedland according to General Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, Baron de Marbot's in his memoirs: Mémoires, Plon, Nourrit et Cie-Paris 1891

Hitler finally dismissed Guderian on 28 March 1945 after a shouting-match over the failed counterattack of General Theodor Busse's 9th Army to break through to units encircled at Küstrin ; he stated to Guderian that " your physical health requires that you immediately take six weeks convalescent leave ," (" Health problems " were commonly used as a facade in the Third Reich to remove executives who for some reason could not simply be sacked, but from episodes Guderian describes in his memoirs it is evident that he actually did suffer from congestive heart failure.

The magazine sold more than 13. 5 million copies a week at one point and was so popular that President Harry S. Truman, Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur all serialized their memoirs in its pages.

Maffei was of the illustrious family that originated in Bologna ; his brother was General Alessandro Maffei, whose memoirs he edited and published.

He pleaded in his memoirs that his people who surrendered had been misled, and that his surrender as a war prisoner was conditioned in front of uncontested witnesses ( especially General Stanley ).

In his memoirs General Omar Bradley called Bodyguard the " single biggest hoax of the war ".

Those earlier memoirs were edited and published posthumously in 1989 as Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander.

Beginning with memoirs published by one of his sons-in-law, the General came to be referred to as " von Riedesel " in American historical writing, but this is historically incorrect.

In a New York Times interview given the day after Major General Howard retired from the Army on November 8, 1894 at the age of 64, it was reported that he was traveling West to stay at his daughter's house in Portland, Oregon where he planned to start writing his memoirs.

According to the memoirs of British General Ismay:

Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely has recommended Slim's memoirs ( Defeat into Victory ) describing Slim as " perhaps the Greatest Commander of the 20th Century " and commenting on Slim's " self-deprecating style " Slim discussed his mistakes during the war in detail and lessons learned, which may help explain why his memoirs have never been out of print.

Sharp also had a strong belief in republicanism, revealing in his 1994 memoirs that because of his negative views on the monarchy, he refused to accept Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's offer to recommend him for appointment as Governor General.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert, and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.

In his memoirs, William Tecumseh Sherman contended that Benicia was " the best natural site for a commercial city " in the region.

Part of the reason that de la Peña's memoirs are questioned comes from his detailed account of Col. William Travis ' death in " With Santa Anna in Texas ".

In his memoirs, written shortly before his execution, Frank made the sensational claim that Hitler had commissioned him to investigate Hitler's family in 1930 after a " blackmail letter " had been received from Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who allegedly threatened to reveal embarrassing facts about his uncle's ancestry.

* The Prodigal Rake – memoirs of William Hickey ( 1962 ), editor

He was also the author of Effigies poetica ( 1824 ), Life of Edmund Kean ( 1835 ), Essays and Tales in Prose ( 1851 ), Charles Lamb ; a Memoir ( 1866 ), and of memoirs of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare for editions of their works.

The memoirs of the French ambassador Paul Barillon d ' Amoncourt reveal extensive French communication ( and bribery ) of the MPs to delay supply-even Country Party leaders like Henry Powle, William Harbord and Thomas Littleton were paid.

There are two memoirs of his life, one by William Field ( 1828 ), the other, with his works and his letters, by John Johnstone ( 1828 ); and Edmund Henry Barker published in 1828-1829 two volumes of Parriana, a confused mass of information on Parr and his friends.

Subsequently Torrey published reports on the plants that were collected by John C. Frémont in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains ( 1845 ), those gathered by Major William H. Emory on his reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California ( 1848 ), the specimens secured by Captain Howard Stansbury on his expedition to the Great Salt Lake of Utah ( 1852 ), the plants collected by John C. Frémont in California ( 1853 ), those brought back from the Red River of Louisiana by Captain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1853 ), and the botany of Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves's expedition to the Zuni and Colorado Rivers ( 1854 ), also memoirs on the botany of the various expeditions for the purpose of determining the most practicable route for a Pacific Railroad ( 1855-1860 ).

The event proved to be a valuable learning experience for William, who later recalled in his unpublished memoirs:

The English painter William Rothenstein described this performance in his first volume of memoirs:

William Shatner writes in his memoirs that " The Devil in the Dark " was his favorite original Star Trek episode.

William James Linton ( December 7, 1812-December 29, 1897 ) was an English-born American wood engraver, landscape painter, political reformer and author of memoirs, novels, poetry and non-fiction.

Alexander Pedachenko ( alleged dates 1857 – 1908 ) was named in the 1923 memoirs of William Le Queux, Things I Know about Kings, Celebrities and Crooks.

Onetime CBS News president Dick Salant, the legendary executive who preceded and later succeeded Friendly in the role, wrote in his memoirs that Friendly's problem was compounded by the fact he could not make such a request directly to the top CBS management ( William S. Paley and Frank Stanton ), as previous CBS News presidents had.

Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll, Haines ' second book of memoirs, was published in July 2011 by William Heinemann Ltd.

After Considerations on the Pentateuch ( London, 1863 ; two editions ), in which he opposed the conclusions of John William Colenso, and a number of short memoirs for the Imperial Dictionary of Biography, his last work was Personal Recollections ( London, 1864 ), a series of papers, in part autobiographical, which had appeared in Good Words.

In 1966, William R. Trask published the first of his 12 volume translation of Casanova's memoirs while Potter was working as a book reviewer for The Times newspaper.

Two of the most famous were early memoirs of Virginia: Captain John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in the 1610s and 1620s, and William Byrd II's secret plantation diary, kept in the early 18th century.

In 1946 William Morrow published his wartime memoirs, The Brereton Diaries, which have been sometimes criticized as allegedly written after-the-fact to absolve Brereton of any blame for controversies, and created further friction with MacArthur and his acolytes.

Arthur O ' Neill ( 1734-1818 ) refers to William in his memoirs:

Contemporary memoirs such as those of William Hickey record the consumption of enormous meals, washed down by copious quantities of claret, port, madeira and other wines, followed by the smoking of Hookahs.