Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23605 books were found.

An Officer in MacArthur's Court. a Memoir of the First Headquarters Commandant for General Douglas MacArthur in Australia.

An Officer in MacArthur's Court. a Memoir of the First...

Author: John F Day, III
ISBN: 9781611701760
Format: Paperback
$54.98

A 39-month Wartime Odyssey through the Southwest Pacific Area. Based on the true diary and oral history of Col....  Read More >>

All I Ever Wanted to Be Was a Cowboy

All I Ever Wanted to Be Was a Cowboy

Author: Bill Roberts ,  Jim Fitch
ISBN: 9781620232675
Format: Hardback
$84.35

Bill Roerts is an 80-year old cowboy living in Florida. This book is a collection of storeis about what cow hunting...  Read More >>

I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford

I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford

Author: Richard Snow
ISBN: 9781451645583
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Saladin

Saladin

Author: Anne-Marie Eddé ,  Jane Marie Todd
ISBN: 9780674283978
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Saladin represents the best kind of biography—a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most...  Read More >>

Down But Not Out: The Incredible Story of Second World War Airman Maurice 'Moggy' Mayne

Down But Not Out: The Incredible Story of Second World...

Author: Maurice Mayne ,  Mark Ryan
ISBN: 9780750952064
Format: Hardback
$47.99

Maurice `Moggy’ Mayne was a cricket-loving air gunner in the Second World War, with a pretty girlfriend back home...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9781500147075
Format: Paperback
$31.55

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Bamboozled: An Incarcerated Boxer Goes Undercover for John McCain's Boxing Bill

Bamboozled: An Incarcerated Boxer Goes Undercover for...

Author: Joey Torrey ,  Joe Biel
ISBN: 9781306018012
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

In this introspective exploration of former boxer Joey Torrey's life, his past, his murder conviction, and his more...  Read More >>

Good Morning, Mr Mandela

Good Morning, Mr Mandela

Author: Zelda la Grange ,  Adjoa Andoh
ISBN: 9781471269172
Format: Audio
$66.03

Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a...  Read More >>

Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the...

Author: Frank Crosby
ISBN: 9781500115920
Format: Paperback
$23.73

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

Author: Walter Cronkite ,  Maurice Isserman
ISBN: 9781426212697
Format: Paperback
$36.99

In this book, Walter Cronkite, one of the greatest names in American journalism, returns from the grave to give...  Read More >>

617: Going to War with Today's Dambusters

617: Going to War with Today's Dambusters

Author: Tim Bouquet
ISBN: 9781409129882
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Building the Orange Wave: The Inside Story Behind the Historic Rise of Jack Layton and the NDP

Building the Orange Wave: The Inside Story Behind the...

Author: Brad Lavigne
ISBN: 9781771620178
Format: Hardback
$62.99

Brad Lavigne was not just the campaign manager of the New Democratic Party's 2011 breakthrough campaign that took...  Read More >>

Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan...

Author: Mark Abley
ISBN: 9781553656098
Format: Hardback
$59.99

As a poet and citizen deeply concerned by the Oka Crisis, the Idle No More protests, and Canada's ongoing failure...  Read More >>

Notes from a Small Military

Notes from a Small Military

Author: Major-General Chip Chapman
ISBN: 9781306204903
Format: Electronic book text
$47.49

I commanded and fought with 2 PARA at the Battle of Goose Green. I was Head of Counter Terrorism for the M.O.D....  Read More >>

Firefight: Battling fires in Canada, fighting wars overseas and finding humanity amid the chaos

Firefight: Battling fires in Canada, fighting wars overseas...

Author: Rick Kurelo CD ,  Dawn Charlton
ISBN: 9781460232804
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Firefight is a compilation of Rick Kurelo's personal accounts as a professional firefighter in Canada and as a Canadian...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781499797428
Format: Paperback
$23.73

This is the classic book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, initially published in 1845. Narrative of...  Read More >>

Brothers: What the van Goghs, Booths, Marxes, Kelloggs--and Colts--Tell Us About How Siblings Shape Our Lives and History

Brothers: What the van Goghs, Booths, Marxes, Kelloggs--and...

Author: George Howe Colt
ISBN: 9781416547785
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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Firefight: Battling fires in Canada, fighting wars overseas and finding humanity amid the chaos

Firefight: Battling fires in Canada, fighting wars overseas...

Author: Rick Kurelo CD ,  Dawn Charlton
ISBN: 9781460232798
Format: Hardback
$67.25

Firefight is a compilation of Rick Kurelo's personal accounts as a professional firefighter in Canada and as a Canadian...  Read More >>

My Year of the War

My Year of the War

Author: Frederick Palmer
ISBN: 9781499779356
Format: Paperback
$19.77

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

One of Lee's Best Men: The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pender

One of Lee's Best Men: The Civil War Letters of General...

Author: William W Hassler
ISBN: 9781469602349
Format: Online resource
$110.88

On the day that Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861, twenty-seven-year-old William Dorsey Pender, en route to the provisional...  Read More >>

Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy

Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy

Author: Andrew J KirKendall
ISBN: 9781469606309
Format: Online resource
$146.52

In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the...  Read More >>

John Tyler, the Accidental President

John Tyler, the Accidental President

Author: Edward P Crapol
ISBN: 9781469602288
Format: Undefined
$170.28

The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by...  Read More >>

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime...

Author: David Bromwich
ISBN: 9780674729704
Format: Hardback
$113.52

This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1730–1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity...  Read More >>

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation

Author: Ray Raphael
ISBN: 9781282488144
Format: Electronic book text
$115.90

Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison together they are best known as an intimate cadre...  Read More >>

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