Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23614 books were found.

Riding on a Tiger

Riding on a Tiger

Author: Arthur Moody Awori
ISBN: 9789966349910
Format: Paperback
$137.14

"Arthur Moody Awori known as ""Uncle Moody"", is a veteran Kenyan politician who served as the ninth Vice President...  Read More >>

Dubliners

Dubliners

Author: James Joyce
ISBN: 9781983822421
Format: Paperback
$21.09

EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND JOHN BANVILLE In this powerfully influential...  Read More >>

Under My Bubbe's Wings: How Grandma's Spirit Got Me Through Nazi Captivity

Under My Bubbe's Wings: How Grandma's Spirit Got Me...

Author: Iser Flaum
ISBN: 9781634928250
Format: Paperback
$54.21

This is a true-life memoir of defiant endurance overcoming great cruelty and brutality over years of Nazi slave...  Read More >>

Behind Diplomatic Lines: Relations with Ministers

Behind Diplomatic Lines: Relations with Ministers

Author: Patrick Wright
ISBN: 9781785903380
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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A Most Enigmatic War: R.V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45

A Most Enigmatic War: R.V. Jones and the Genesis of...

Author: James Goodchild
ISBN: 9781911512554
Format: Hardback
$125.00

Reassesses WWII scientific intelligence through a meticulous critique of the wartime papers and memoirs of its key...  Read More >>

The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold

The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery...

Author: Stephen G. Bloom
ISBN: 9781682450093
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

My True Life in Short Stories

My True Life in Short Stories

Author: Mariette Guenette
ISBN: 9781460294970
Format: Paperback
$33.61

From a very humble beginning filled with hardships, the sixth child in a family of fourteen, I was born on a small...  Read More >>

My True Life in Short Stories

My True Life in Short Stories

Author: Mariette Guenette
ISBN: 9781460294963
Format: Hardback
$46.55

From a very humble beginning filled with hardships, the sixth child in a family of fourteen, I was born on a small...  Read More >>

Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Vladimir Lenin

Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Vladimir Lenin...

Author: Charles River
ISBN: 9781984037190
Format: Paperback
$21.49

"*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events in Lenin's life. *Explains the origins of Vladimir...  Read More >>

Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker

Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and...

Author: Yvette Johnson
ISBN: 9781476754956
Format: Paperback
$55.41

In this ""beautiful, evocative"" (Booklist, starred review) memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to the Mississippi Delta...  Read More >>

Displaced: How I got from Budapest to Berkeley in a Roundabout Way

Displaced: How I got from Budapest to Berkeley in a...

Author: George Kapus
ISBN: 9781631320439
Format: Paperback
$54.34

In DISPLACED, George Kapus tells his story from birth to about age 19, as his family moved from country to country...  Read More >>

Waco: A Survivor's Story

Waco: A Survivor's Story

Author: David Thibodeau ,  Leon Whiteson
ISBN: 9781478998860
Format: Audio
$92.40

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the siege at Waco, and a tie-in to the upcoming Spike TV mini-series, an...  Read More >>

Climbing Fool's Hill

Climbing Fool's Hill

Author: Dean Rippetoe
ISBN: 9781641332521
Format: Paperback
$26.37

The lifestyle of kids growing up in the 1940's and 50's were quite different from those in the generations that...  Read More >>

A Life

A Life

Author: Simone Veil
ISBN: 9781910376966
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Veil, one of France’s most beloved political figures, is admired for her personal and political courage,and enjoys...  Read More >>

In Thy Mother's Honor

In Thy Mother's Honor

Author: I M Waiting
ISBN: 9781480956582
Format: Paperback
$68.64

"""No one can fully understand the terror, the unbelievable pain that is experienced in war unless they have been...  Read More >>

My Own Liberator: A Memoir

My Own Liberator: A Memoir

Author: Dikgang Moseneke
ISBN: 9781770105089
Format: Paperback
$45.85

In this memoir, the first of two, Dikgang Moseneke pays homage to the many people and places that have helped to...  Read More >>

The Good Citizen: Amazing Story of Tom Ryan

The Good Citizen: Amazing Story of Tom Ryan

Author: Denis Dwyer
ISBN: 9781869665043
Format: Paperback
$68.61

The illegitimate baby of an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Tom Ryan and his family were banished from Ireland to the far...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Cotton

In the Shadow of Cotton

Author: Dr John Evans (Loughborough University UK)
ISBN: 9781640034730
Format: Paperback
$30.92

This memoir refreshes our culture of remembrance with humor and tears through the eyes of a child coming of age...  Read More >>

Tracks in the Sand: A Railwayman's War

Tracks in the Sand: A Railwayman's War

Author: James Dodds ,  Catherine Dodds
ISBN: 9780993477942
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Some100 letters/postcards and 200 photographs and items of railway and other ephemera chart Tim Foster's WW1 campaign...  Read More >>

Diversifying Diplomacy: My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar

Diversifying Diplomacy: My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar...

Author: Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas ,  Jim Robison
ISBN: 9781612349503
Format: Hardback
$46.20

The firsthand account of Harriet Elam-Thomas, or “the little Elam girl” from Boston, whose decades-long effort as...  Read More >>

Working Man From Big Snowbird

Working Man From Big Snowbird

Author: Marilyn Curtis Trull
ISBN: 9781641330985
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call for Independence

First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call...

Author: Harlow Giles Unger
ISBN: 9780306825613
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A new biography of America's first Founding Father, Richard Henry Lee, who wrote the original declaration of independence...  Read More >>

Last of the Glow Worms: Memoir of a Nuclear Weapons Technician at the End of the Cold War

Last of the Glow Worms: Memoir of a Nuclear Weapons...

Author: Jeff Woodward
ISBN: 9781476671352
Format: Paperback
$52.77

From the early 1950s until 1992, the US Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent...  Read More >>

The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American Heroes

The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a...

Author: Anthony Sadler ,  Alek Skarlatos
ISBN: 9780008287979
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The 15:17 to Paris is the amazing true story of friendship and bravery, and of near tragedy averted by three heroic...  Read More >>

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