Autobiography: historical, political & military books

Internationally renowned historian Hermann Giliomee recounts the turbulent times he has lived through. Packed with...  Read More >>

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Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable...  Read More >>

Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable...  Read More >>

Read the remarkable memoir of Bob Bearden, who fought on D-Day, was captured, survived German POW camps and made...  Read More >>

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This memoir was written soon after the author's stint as a paratrooper in World War II, using his letters home and...  Read More >>

This memoir was written soon after the author's stint as a paratrooper in World War II, using his letters home and...  Read More >>

This memoir was written soon after the author's stint as a paratrooper in World War II, using his letters home and...  Read More >>

The poignant and insightful memoir from Yossi Klein Halevi, the award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed...  Read More >>

The outspoken autobiography of one of Britain's best known, and respected, Generals. With a foreword by Sir Max...  Read More >>

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The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II.  Read More >>

An 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally...  Read More >>

The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol. I.  Read More >>

This is a collection of sketches that chronicles the lives of great men belonging to the fields of science and industry....  Read More >>

This is a graphic novel version of the life of Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary samurai known throughout the world...  Read More >>

This fascinating book describes a history, covering four centuries, of a line of Hurrell families, linked together...  Read More >>

Jamaican-born Necola Hall served in the British Army for more than nine years, and is a veteran of the Second Gulf...  Read More >>

Navy Crazy is a different kind of war story depicting the backwardness of military medicine in the mid-1950s. A...  Read More >>

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

It would be difficult, and perhaps impossible, to gather from the history and labours of any individual mind, a...  Read More >>

This wonderful collection of writings by Benjamin Franklin, and as the humorous and insightful Richard Saunders,...  Read More >>