Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942

Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942

Author: Nigel Hamilton
ISBN: 9780544227842
Format: Paperback
$47.49

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A Fighting Chance

A Fighting Chance

Author: Elizabeth Warren
ISBN: 9781925228083
Format: Paperback
$43.96

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and become a teacher. Early motherhood...  Read More >>

One Man in Ten Million

One Man in Ten Million

Author: Ronald Powers
ISBN: 9781634498562
Format: Paperback
$36.93

My father, Richard E. Powers, served with the 104th Infantry Regiment as a part of the 26th Yankee Infantry Division....  Read More >>

Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir

Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir

Author: Zelda la Grange
ISBN: 9780147516275
Format: Paperback
$63.36

“An important reminder of the lessons Madiba taught us all.”—President Bill Clinton There are numerous books...  Read More >>

Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA

Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA

Author: Morten Storm ,  Tim Lister
ISBN: 9780802124296
Format: Paperback
$52.80

"""First published in Great Britain in 2014 by the Penguin Group""--Title page verso."  Read More >>

Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences

Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences

Author: Dennis Skinner ,  Kevin Maguire
ISBN: 9781784291235
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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My Life under Totalitarianism: 1941-1991

My Life under Totalitarianism: 1941-1991

Author: Peter Staric
ISBN: 9781940777603
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Peter Staric describes his life from 1941 until 1991. First his country Slovenia-then the northwestern part of Yugoslavia-was...  Read More >>

The Wartime Journals

The Wartime Journals

Author: Hugh Trevor-Roper (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Richard Davenport-Hines (All Soul's College, University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781784531935
Format: Paperback
$39.99

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a...  Read More >>

What Was I Thinking?: The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays

What Was I Thinking?: The Autobiography of an Idea and...

Author: Rick Salutin
ISBN: 9781770412606
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Brilliant, fractious, mordantly funny, playwright/novelist/essayist Rick Salutin has been Canadian journalism's...  Read More >>

My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures

My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures

Author: Martin L. Friedland
ISBN: 9781442629776
Format: Paperback
$94.99

My Life in Crime and other Academic Adventures reflects upon a life devoted to education, scholarship, and the law,...  Read More >>

My Life under Totalitarianism: 1941-1991

My Life under Totalitarianism: 1941-1991

Author: Peter Staric
ISBN: 9781940777610
Format: Hardback
$84.35

Peter Staric describes his life from 1941 until 1991. First his country Slovenia-then the northwestern part of Yugoslavia-was...  Read More >>

In the Footsteps of War: the Definitive Edition

In the Footsteps of War: the Definitive Edition

Author: Ni Bell ,  Russell Goffe-Wood
ISBN: 9780957090262
Format: Paperback
$39.60

This books contains real stories from real people and organisations on the subject of war and remembrance. Non-profit...  Read More >>

Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.

Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry,...

Author: Marion Barry, Jr. ,  Omar Tyree
ISBN: 9781593095062
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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

Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him

Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever...

Author: Luis Carlos Montalván ,  Bret Witter
ISBN: 9781501263897
Format: Audio
$39.57

Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors--Montalvan, an Iraq war veteran, and Tuesday, a golden retriever...  Read More >>

Operation Mayhem

Operation Mayhem

Author: Steve Heaney, MC ,  Damien Lewis
ISBN: 9781409148456
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Sergeant Steve Heaney tells the explosive true story of the epic operation that helped to bring to an end the Sierra...  Read More >>

Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy

Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy...

Author: Jamie Smith ,  Jamie Smith
ISBN: 9780062271693
Format: Hardback
$42.99

The first ever, first-person story of America's private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from...  Read More >>

Barbarian at the Gate: From the American Suburbs to the Taiwanese Army

Barbarian at the Gate: From the American Suburbs to...

Author: T. C. Locke ,  Steve Kim
ISBN: 9781910736203
Format: Paperback
$31.02

The unique account of white American T.C. Locke, who finds himself called up for two years of compulsory military...  Read More >>

My Life: From a Russian Shtetl to the Golden Land

My Life: From a Russian Shtetl to the Golden Land

Author: Murray Sachs ,  Dan Levin
ISBN: 9781508617549
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Samuel Osipow was born in 1883 in the Russian shtetl (Yiddish for town) of Liadi, lost to World War II. In his colorful...  Read More >>

American Wife: A Memoir Of Love, Service, Faith, And Renewal

American Wife: A Memoir Of Love, Service, Faith, And...

Author: Taya Kyle ,  Jim DeFelice
ISBN: 9780062398086
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and...  Read More >>

The Wood of My Window: Recollections From A Scatter Of Days In Vietnam 1969 And A People I Learned To Love

The Wood of My Window: Recollections From A Scatter...

Author: Phillip J Schuster
ISBN: 9781512309409
Format: Paperback
$42.24

For The Once Free People In the blackness of the Wall Wherein lay hidden and dishonored and left behind The once...  Read More >>

A Visit to Three Fronts June 1916

A Visit to Three Fronts June 1916

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781514160411
Format: Paperback
$18.45

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt

Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish...

Author: Herb Silverman ,  Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780984493296
Format: Paperback
$42.11

In this deeply revealing and engaging autobiography, Herb Silverman tells his iconoclastic life story. He takes...  Read More >>

War and Grace

War and Grace

Author: Desmond McDougall
ISBN: 9781910223376
Format: Paperback
$18.09

Grace McDougall was 28 years old when she went to the Great War. Already a leader of the FANY Corps, she crossed...  Read More >>

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times...

Author: David Nasaw
ISBN: 9780143124078
Format: Paperback
$55.00

Examines the life of Joseph P Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. This...  Read More >>

Calendar Boy

Calendar Boy

Author: Austin Mitchell
ISBN: 9781473828445
Format: Hardback
$57.99

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