Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in...

Author: Lucia Jang ,  Susan McClelland
ISBN: 9781681417288
Format: Audio
$79.17

An incredible memoir of North Korea by a woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.  Read More >>

Above the Pigsty

Above the Pigsty

Author: Peter Van Essen ,  Miranda Van Essen
ISBN: 9781460267776
Format: Hardback
$90.54

In 1943 Peter, a 21-year-old Dutch citizen, faces a choice: forced labour in Germany or go into hiding with the...  Read More >>

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoirs of Valdemar Langlet 1944-?1945

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoirs of Valdemar Langlet...

Author: Valdemar Langlet ,  Monika Langlet
ISBN: 9781634502689
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Translation of: Verk ock Dagar i Budapest.  Read More >>

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

Author: Ronald Blythe ,  Matt Weiland
ISBN: 9781590178300
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen Judge of Admiralty, etc., a Loyalist-refugee in England, During the American Revolution. To Which are Added, Illustrative Documents and Other Eminent Men

Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen Judge...

Author: Samuel Curwen ,  George Atkinson Ward
ISBN: 9781340072452
Format: Hardback
$100.19

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

Narrative of the Life Frederick Douglass: An American...

Author: Frederick Douglass ,  Frederick Douglas
ISBN: 9798200611911
Format: Audio
$15.79

This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first...  Read More >>

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria...

Author: William Westgarth
ISBN: 9781298973061
Format: Hardback
$63.23

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Everywhere House

The Everywhere House

Author: Sherry Lincoln
ISBN: 9781942905332
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"Sherry Lincoln's childhood home had sat next to the Brentwood Library for forty-two years. Each time she visited...  Read More >>

Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell, Volume 1

Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell, Volume 1

Author: Thomas Campbell ,  William Beattie, Sir
ISBN: 9781296964160
Format: Hardback
$59.38

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Memoirs of a Highland Lady: The Autobiography of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, Afterwards Mrs. Smith of Baltiboys, 1797-1830

Memoirs of a Highland Lady: The Autobiography of Elizabeth...

Author: Elizabeth Grant
ISBN: 9781297993527
Format: Hardback
$79.07

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

My Memoirs

My Memoirs

Author: Alfred Von Tirpitz
ISBN: 9781298906168
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin
ISBN: 9781296906511
Format: Hardback
$56.80

Edited with introduction and notes by Charles W Eliot and with Appendix including 'The Electrical Kite'  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Notes and a Sketch of Franklin's Life from the Point Where the Autobiography Ends

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Notes and...

Author: Benjamin Franklin
ISBN: 9781296884932
Format: Hardback
$51.62

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Gospel According To Sarah: How Sarah Palin's Tea Party Angels Are Galvanizing The Religious Right

The Gospel According To Sarah: How Sarah Palin's Tea...

Author: Anthea D. Butler
ISBN: 9781595587107
Format: Hardback
$65.87

A fascinating new look at a little understood but crucial side of Sarah Palin: her Pentecostal roots. A perfectly...  Read More >>

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers...

Author: Jennifer Teege ,  Nikola Sellmair
ISBN: 9781504664349
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$158.37

Translation of: Amon: mein Grossvater heatte mich erschossen.  Read More >>

Forgetting to be Afraid: A Memoir

Forgetting to be Afraid: A Memoir

Author: Wendy Davis
ISBN: 9780147516381
Format: Paperback
$34.99

<b>A deeply personal memoir by one of the country s brightest new political stars, Texas Democratic gubernatorial...  Read More >>

Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries 1992-2007

Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries 1992-2007

Author: Gyles Brandreth
ISBN: 9781849549158
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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Mio padre Carlo Pastorino

Mio padre Carlo Pastorino

Author: Piero Pastorino
ISBN: 9781517368845
Format: Paperback
$21.12

La vita e continuita della storia, nella vita c'e il retaggio del passato. Quando si eludono le voci del passato...  Read More >>

Detained: Emails and musings from a spiritual journey through Abu Ghraib, Kandahar and other garden spots

Detained: Emails and musings from a spiritual journey...

Author: Brian M Rees
ISBN: 9780996277921
Format: Paperback
$41.27

"Over the course of five deployments to the Middle East since 9/11, Colonel (retired) Brian Rees documented his...  Read More >>

Stars Between the Sun and Moon

Stars Between the Sun and Moon

Author: Susan McClelland ,  Lucia Jang
ISBN: 9798228208179
Format: Audio
$110.85

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Stars Between the Sun and Moon

Stars Between the Sun and Moon

Author: Susan McClelland ,  Lucia Jang
ISBN: 9798228208155
Format: Audio
$97.65

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Detained: Emails and musings from a spiritual journey through Abu Ghraib, Kandahar, and other garden spots

Detained: Emails and musings from a spiritual journey...

Author: Brian M Rees
ISBN: 9780996277914
Format: Hardback
$67.15

"Over the course of five deployments to the Middle East since 9/11, Colonel (retired) Brian Rees documented his...  Read More >>

A Soldier First

A Soldier First

Author: Rick Hillier
ISBN: 9780062026675
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Canada's most popular military leader since World War II, General Rick Hillier tells his own story in A Soldier...  Read More >>

Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes...

Author: Jane Addams
ISBN: 9781296860899
Format: Hardback
$59.38

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The West Indies and the Spanish Main

The West Indies and the Spanish Main

Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781297832772
Format: Hardback
$54.21

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