Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23605 books were found.

The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace

The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace

Author: Alexander Stille
ISBN: 9781250043580
Format: Paperback
$73.92

A masterpiece of literary memory--a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory and...  Read More >>

Lynton Keith Caldwell: An Environmental Visionary and the National Environmental Policy Act

Lynton Keith Caldwell: An Environmental Visionary and...

Author: Wendy Read Wertz
ISBN: 9780253010308
Format: Hardback
$86.95

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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that...

Author: Mark Owen ,  Kevin Maurer
ISBN: 9780451468741
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao: John Wayne's Political Odyssey

The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao: John Wayne's...

Author: Steven Travers
ISBN: 9781589798977
Format: Hardback
$50.99

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Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War

Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the...

Author: Ken Adelman
ISBN: 9780062310194
Format: Hardback
$79.17

The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland--the definitive weekend...  Read More >>

Living in the Past: A Northern Irish Memoir

Living in the Past: A Northern Irish Memoir

Author: Arthur Magennis
ISBN: 9781909192775
Format: Paperback
$18.09

When Arthur Magennis was put on chemotherapy in 2012, he found that he had two sleepless nights each week. To fill...  Read More >>

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9780616003220
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Originally published: Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, 1853.  Read More >>

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9780616003237
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Originally published: Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, 1853.  Read More >>

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9781499285109
Format: Paperback
$29.04

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Carry on Padre: Memoirs of an Army Chaplain in Apartheid South Africa

Carry on Padre: Memoirs of an Army Chaplain in Apartheid...

Author: Pierre Van Blommestein
ISBN: 9781622127764
Format: Paperback
$27.27

"This poignant, sad, and sometimes funny story of a liberal-minded young man tells how he was raised in a race-unconscious...  Read More >>

My Crazy Century

My Crazy Century

Author: Ivan Klíma
ISBN: 9781611855708
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Ivan Klima, 'a writer of enormous power and originality' (The New York Times Book Review), has penned an intimate...  Read More >>

Leap to Life: Triumph Over Nazi Evil

Leap to Life: Triumph Over Nazi Evil

Author: Joseph Rebhun
ISBN: 9781893357051
Format: Hardback
$66.00

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Cleopatra and Egypt

Cleopatra and Egypt

Author: Sally-Ann Ashton (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781282124127
Format: Electronic book text
$292.91

This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws on literary, archaeological, and art historical evidence...  Read More >>

Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW: The Conjurer on the Kwai

Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW: The...

Author: Peter Fyans
ISBN: 9781299200111
Format: Electronic book text
$31.92

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Other Side of Israel, The: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide

Other Side of Israel, The: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab...

Author: Susan Nathan
ISBN: 9781299003088
Format: Electronic book text
$198.00

In 2003, Susan Nathan moved from her comfortable home in Tel Aviv to Tamra, an Arab town in the northern part of...  Read More >>

So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima

So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on...

Author: Kumiko Kakehashi
ISBN: 9781299030404
Format: Electronic book text
$118.40

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Did Lincoln Own Slaves?

Did Lincoln Own Slaves?

Author: Gerald J Prokopowicz
ISBN: 9781299107328
Format: Electronic book text
$118.40

In the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth, here is the one indispensable book that provides all you need to know...  Read More >>

Great Soul

Great Soul

Author: Joseph Lelyveld
ISBN: 9781299248168
Format: Electronic book text
$134.24

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments--his...  Read More >>

The Way Home

The Way Home

Author: Ernestine Bradley
ISBN: 9781299000797
Format: Electronic book text
$118.40

Growing up in Bavaria during World War II, Ernestine Bradley came to know wartime dislocations and food shortages,...  Read More >>

My Father's Bonus March

My Father's Bonus March

Author: Adam Langer
ISBN: 9781299214637
Format: Electronic book text
$205.92

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What's to Become of the Boy?

What's to Become of the Boy?

Author: Heinrich Boll ,  Leila Vennewitz
ISBN: 9781299564091
Format: Electronic book text
$39.47

A vivid account of growing up poor, rebellious, and anti-Fascist in Nazi Germany What's to Become of the Boy? is...  Read More >>

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