Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

As Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew described to the BBC and in his memoirs, due to his experiences as a trial lawyer, " I had no faith in a system that allowed the superstition, ignorance, biases, and prejudices of seven jurymen to determine guilt or innocence.

In 1525, Babur described Kabulistan in his memoirs by writing that:

The general directions were described in Yurovsky's memoirs owned by his son, although no one is sure who wrote the notes on the page.

In his memoirs, Longstreet described his reaction to Lee's proposal:

Long after the personal table fork had become commonplace in France, at the supper celebrating the marriage of the duc de Chartres to Louis XIV's natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon: " King James having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with their cadenas.

Shidehara admitted to his authorship in his memoirs Gaikō Gojū-Nen ( Fifty Years Diplomacy ), published in 1951, where he described how the idea came to him on a train ride to Tokyo ; MacArthur himself confirmed Shidehara's authorship on several occasions.

Matches of jeu provençal at the turn of the century are memorably described in the memoirs of novelist Marcel Pagnol.

On 23 August 2007, a Russian archaeologist announced the discovery of two burned, partial skeletons at a bonfire site near Yekaterinburg that appeared to match the site described in Yurovsky's memoirs.

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.

However, on August 23, 2007, a Russian archaeologist announced the discovery of two burned, partial skeletons at a bonfire site near Yekaterinburg that appeared to match the site described in Yurovsky's memoirs.

In his memoirs, former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith described the successive rise of authoritarian left-wing governments in Sub-Saharan Africa during decolonization as " the communists ' domino tactic ".

An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and a Chinese man was to be treated several times ( described in quite contrasting ways ) in her subsequent memoirs and fiction.

Shidehara, in his memoirs Gaikō gojũnen (" Fifty-years Diplomacy ", 1951 ) also admitted to his authorship, and described how the idea came to him on a train ride to Tokyo.

In memoirs written when he was eighteen years old, Krishnamurti described psychic experiences, such as " seeing " his sister, who had died in 1904, and his mother, who had died in 1905.

Henry's experiences during this winter of 1763-64, described in his memoirs, are a valuable primary source into Native American life during the fur trade era.

In one of the first published memoirs about life and death in the Jasenovac complex, a Croatian medical doctor and academic, Dr. Nikola Nikolić, who had been imprisoned in Camp III, described his first meeting with Filipović: “ His voice had an almost feminine quality which was at odds with his physical stature and coarse face .” Nikolić recalled standing in the second row of a group of prisoners who had been lined up to watch as another group of prisoners were herded in front of Filipović.

The indictment described his motive as revenge for the CIA's refusal to allow him to publish his memoirs and its refusal to settle his racial discrimination lawsuit against the Agency.

Al Adair, who served in two different portfolios under Getty, described this approach in his memoirs as " you make the decisions, you run your department, but make mistakes and you're gone ".

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, Baron de Marbot described him as encouraging even Bonaparte himself in the confused situation that prevailed before that battle, though Marbot's memoirs are hardly the most reliable source.

Around 1625, he married Venetia Stanley, whose wooing he cryptically described in his memoirs.

The existence of the GRU was not publicized during the Soviet era, although documents concerning it became available in the West in the late 1920s and it was mentioned in the 1931 memoirs of the first OGPU defector, Georges Agabekov, and described in detail in the 1939 autobiography ( I Was Stalin's Agent ) of Walter Krivitsky, the most senior Red Army intelligence officer ever to defect.

Ærlig talt was mainly written as Hagen's personal memoirs, and particularly described his political career.

In 1952 Simon published his memoirs, Retrospect, which Harold Nicolson reviewed as saying that he described the " nectarines and peaches of office " as if they were " a bag of prunes ".

He later admitted to having killed a man in battle, but wrote in his memoirs that he was randomly selected by his company commander to follow a squad escorting ten prisoners, where the squad turned out to be a firing squad, and then to give the actual order to aim and fire.

Grant said of the battle in his memoirs, " I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made.

Marbot recounts in the book of his memoirs, referring to the battle, how in him a bullet pierced his portfolio, and the incident that, when starting the fight, he had with Lieutenant Labedoyère.

Duke survived to become a television star ( The Patty Duke Show ) in the early-to-mid -' 60s, before moving on to more film and television work ( including a memorable role in Valley of the Dolls ), becoming an activist in the Screen Actors Guild, writing two memoirs ( Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness ) describing her troubled child acting career and her lifelong battle with manic depression, and becoming an advocate for better protection and benefits for child actors.

After leaving the Quai d ' Orsay, Bonnet took with him a large number of official papers, which he then used to support the claims made in his voluminous memoirs, where Bonnet depicted himself as waging a singlehanded heroic battle to save the peace.

De Marbot, one of Marshal Lannes aide-de-camps, wrote in his memoirs of the battle, in which he had to observe the last moments of his close friends, and describes the amount of bloodshed and sadness which came to the Grande Armée after the crossing of the Danube.

The army surgeon Dominique-Jean Larrey also described the battle in his memoirs and mentions how he fed the wounded at Lobau with a bouillon of horse meat seasoned with gunpowder.

In 1604 he captured Dorpat, twice defeated the Swedish generals at Biały Kamień and near Weissenstein ( Paide ) ( often winning against superior odds, like at Weissenstein where he had only 2300 men and defeated a 6, 000 man Swedish force ; Chodkiewicz wrote in his memoirs this was a decisive battle and one of his greatest victories, with Polish-Lithuanian losses 81 dead, 100 wounded and Swedish losses approaching half of their army ).

The depiction of Crockett's fate came from memoirs written by former Mexican officer José Enrique de la Peña, an officer in Santa Anna's army who fought in the battle.

Although, in his memoirs, Lord Blayney tried to downplay the importance of the battle of Fuengirola, he himself remained in French captivity for nearly four years, until 1814.

Wells also gives a description of the game from the view of one of the Generals in the battle bombastically relating his memoirs.

According to many memoirs of the veterans of the battle, Kozietulski led his men for a charge with the official cry Vive l ' Empereur.

The survivors, veterans and journalists wrote numerous memoirs, songs and testimonies about the battle and its symbolism, calling it variously " the phenomenon ", " the pride ", " the hell " and " the Croatian knight ".

The memoirs of Heinz Landau, Goodbye Transylvania, present a German soldier's view of the battle.

The memoirs of the 14 year-old dispatch runner of the Vannay Volunteer Battalion, Ervin Y. Galantay, give an insight into the battle and urban combat.

As Nikolai Ryzhkov describes it in his memoirs, " every Thursday morning he ( Mikhail Gorbachev ) would sit in his office like a little orphan – I would often be present at this sad procedure – nervously awaiting a telephone call from the sick Chernenko: Would he come to the Politburo himself or would he ask Gorbachev to stand in for him this time again?

Nevertheless the Portuguese João Bermudes, the self-described Patriarch of Ethiopia, provided the first description of the Tis Issat Falls in his memoirs ( published in 1565 ), and a number of Europeans who lived in Ethiopia in the late 15th century like Pêro da Covilhã could have seen the river long before Paez, but not reached its places of source.

" Claudius believes this means that his secret memoirs will be one day found, and that he, having therein written the truth, will speak clearly, while his contemporaries, who had to distort their histories in order to appease the ruling family, will seem like stammerers.

This kind of memoir refers to the idea in ancient Greece and Rome, that memoirs were like " memos ," pieces of unfinished and unpublished writing which a writer might use as a memory aid to make a more finished document later on.

Moreover, Speer consented to numerous interviews after his release from prison, and some of the things said in these interviews, like those with Gitta Sereny, contradicted with both his court testimony and memoirs.

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.

“ Ultimately, the primary goal of the creative nonfiction writer is to communicate information, just like a reporter, but to shape it in a way that reads like fiction .” Forms within this genre include biography, food writing, literary journalism, memoirs, personal essays, travel writing, and other hybridized essays.

In his memoirs, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia wrote that the Tsar behaved like a teenage boy when in Catherine's presence and she also appeared to adore him.

Papen recorded in his memoirs that on his arrival in Rome, the Pope " greeted me with paternal affection, expressing his pleasure that at the head of the German State was a man like Hitler, on whose banner the uncompromising struggle against Communism and Nihilism was inscribed.

Evans similarly served as the inspiration for a Mr. Show sketch, in which Bob Odenkirk portrays God recording his memoirs, dressed as and speaking like Evans.

Weinshank, as Muir revealed in her memoirs, not only spoke like a hoodlum but was one of the Chicago mobsters who later were gunned down in the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

The German historian Jürgen Förster was to write in 1989 that it was simply not true as most German Army commanders claimed in their memoirs and some German historians like Ernst Nolte were still claiming that the Commissar Order was not enforced.

" Fay has alleged that whilst Maxim admits that the general context of the times and what it would have been to live as a composer under Soviet rule are generally correct, that Shostakovich's individual portrait was " grossly miscontrued ", and hence, whilst praising the book for highlighting the potential hardships of living under totalitarianism, nevertheless has repeatedly maintained his claim that " it was a book about my father, not by him " — in short, that in his opinion the book cannot be treated as Shostakovich's memoirs, so much as a book about what Shostakovich may have been like.

“ Paul was exceedingly ugly ,” Madame Vigee Le Brun wrote in her memoirs “ A flat nose, and a very large mouth furnished with very long teeth, made him look like a death's head .”

In his memoirs, Creel claimed that the CPI routinely denied false or undocumented atrocity reports, fighting the crude propaganda efforts of " patriotic organizations " like the National Security League and the American Defense Society that preferred " general thundering " and wanted the CPI to " preach a gospel of hate.

In his memoirs he wrote, " Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power.

Milstein later wrote in his memoirs, From Russia to the West, " I feel that if you have a great pianist like Horowitz playing with you, you don't need an orchestra.

Raul Wallenberg did, however, manage to see it at a private screening together with his half sister, Nina Lagergren, and in her memoirs she recalls that on their way home after the screening, " he told me this was the kind of thing he would like to do.

This book should be a professional classic, to be read alongside other memoirs like those of Grahame Clark, Glyn Daniel, Gertrude Caton-Thompson, and Mortimer Wheeler.