Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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They Shall Not Have Me the Capture Forced Labor and Escape of a French Prisoner of War - War College Series

They Shall Not Have Me the Capture Forced Labor and...

Author: Jean Helion
ISBN: 9781298031501
Format: Paperback
$97.02

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national...  Read More >>

Touching History: From Williamsburg to Jerusalem

Touching History: From Williamsburg to Jerusalem

Author: Rabbi Dr Sholom Gold
ISBN: 9789652296399
Format: Hardback
$80.19

This gripping memoir tells the personal story of a man who has lived at the epicenter of the major events of modern...  Read More >>

Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union

Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A Life of Dissent and Exile...

Author: Leah Trachtman-Palchan ,  Nir Arielli
ISBN: 9781784530808
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Shedding new light on Mandate Palestine and the Jewish experience in Soviet Moscow, this book reveals the remarkable...  Read More >>

The Book of Margery Kempe

The Book of Margery Kempe

Author: Margery Kempe ,  Anthony Bale (Professor of Medieval Studies, Professor of Medieval Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9780199686643
Format: Paperback
$23.95

The Book of Margery Kempe is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. The earliest autobiography...  Read More >>

Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams - Scholar's Choice Edition

Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams - Scholar's...

Author: Josiah Quincy
ISBN: 9781293969755
Format: Paperback
$97.02

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Through My Mother's Eyes: The Story of a Young Girl's Life as a Prisoner of War in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp

Through My Mother's Eyes: The Story of a Young Girl's...

Author: Michael McCoy
ISBN: 9781631358555
Format: Paperback
$31.31

"Jean-Marie Faggiano and her family were living in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7,...  Read More >>

All Propaganda Is Lies: 1941 - 1942

All Propaganda Is Lies: 1941 - 1942

Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9781846559433
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Volume 13 of The Complete Works of George Orwell On 18 August 1941, Orwell joined the BBC's Overseas Service. Along...  Read More >>

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark - Scholar's Choice Edition

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden,...

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
ISBN: 9781295953264
Format: Paperback
$75.90

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

The Barefoot Lawyer: A Memoir

The Barefoot Lawyer: A Memoir

Author: Guangcheng Chen ,  Chen Guangcheng
ISBN: 9780670067671
Format: Hardback
$79.20

It was like a scene out of a thriller: one night in April 2012, China s most famous political activist a blind,...  Read More >>

DEAREST MAE... A Journey of Love and Family

DEAREST MAE... A Journey of Love and Family

Author: Jane Rodgers Mechenbier ,  Elida Lechuga
ISBN: 9781936745401
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Dearest Mae is a memoir written by Jane Rodgers Mechenbier about three generations of her family. The narrative...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin
ISBN: 9781508744825
Format: Paperback
$18.61

The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, now with a new foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund...  Read More >>

Cruising with Kate: A Parvenu in Xanadu

Cruising with Kate: A Parvenu in Xanadu

Author: Bernard F. Conners
ISBN: 9780945167570
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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The Last Road Rebel-and Other Lost Stories: Growing Up in a Small Town-and Never Getting Over It

The Last Road Rebel-and Other Lost Stories: Growing...

Author: Robert Gilberg
ISBN: 9781491757239
Format: Paperback
$36.10

The author examines his childhood and youth in the small farming community of New Bremen, Ohio.  Read More >>

My Private War: Liberated Body, Captive Mind-A World War II POW's Journey

My Private War: Liberated Body, Captive Mind-A World...

Author: Norman Bussel
ISBN: 9781605980676
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The vivid and emotional story of one soldier's heroic struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.  Read More >>

Run, Don't Walk: The Curious and Courageous Life Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Run, Don't Walk: The Curious and Courageous Life Inside...

Author: Adele Levine
ISBN: 9781583335550
Format: Paperback
$49.99

M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, absurdly funny, inspiring, and totally unique debut memoir from a physical...  Read More >>

Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War

Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in...

Author: Kayla Williams
ISBN: 9780393350623
Format: Paperback
$26.95

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The Last Road Rebel-and Other Lost Stories: Growing Up in a Small Town-and Never Getting Over It

The Last Road Rebel-and Other Lost Stories: Growing...

Author: Robert Gilberg
ISBN: 9781491757246
Format: Hardback
$51.62

The author examines his childhood and youth in the small farming community of New Bremen, Ohio.  Read More >>

Memories of my Childhood, Youth and Old Warrior

Memories of my Childhood, Youth and Old Warrior

Author: George J Strnad Sr
ISBN: 9781503398610
Format: Paperback
$34.19

The story of my life as a abused child, abused and used teen, adventures into adulthood finally the military connecton...  Read More >>

Voices from History: Joyce's War: The Second World War Journal of a Queen Alexandra Nurse

Voices from History: Joyce's War: The Second World War...

Author: Rhiannon Evans ,  Joyce Ffoulkes Parry
ISBN: 9780750962308
Format: Paperback
$24.99

When war was declared, she signed up as a Queen Alexandra nurse and from 1940 until 1944, when she left India to...  Read More >>

Painted Pebbles: A Hungarian Family Chronicle

Painted Pebbles: A Hungarian Family Chronicle

Author: Peter Stangl
ISBN: 9781564745675
Format: Paperback
$42.11

In 1983 librarian Peter Stangl took his teenaged son and daughter to Budapest, to show them the city and the land...  Read More >>

My Inventions: Autobiography of a Genius

My Inventions: Autobiography of a Genius

Author: Nikola Tesla
ISBN: 9781508707110
Format: Paperback
$14.20

At the age of 63 Tesla tells the story of his creative life. Find out the seemingly mystic powers of concentration...  Read More >>

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