Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23605 books were found.

Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel

Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free...

Author: Bettina Aptheker
ISBN: 9781281607485
Format: Electronic book text
$44.75

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The True Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography

The True Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography

Author: Betty Boles Ellison
ISBN: 9780786478361
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's wife. Preconceived myths about...  Read More >>

Cultural Traditions in Israel

Cultural Traditions in Israel

Author: Molly Aloian
ISBN: 9780778703150
Format: Paperback
$23.26

This fascinating book describes the holidays and traditions of Israel. Most national holidays celebrate events in...  Read More >>

The Smithsonian First Ladies Collection

The Smithsonian First Ladies Collection

Author: Lisa Kathleen Graddy (Lisa Kathleen Graddy) ,  Amy Pastan (Amy Pastan)
ISBN: 9781588344694
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The Smithsonian First Ladies Collection- now fully updated to 2024 to include every US first lady to date-is a beautifully...  Read More >>

China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom

China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom

Author: Richard Baum
ISBN: 9780295992532
Format: Paperback
$28.95

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The Human Tradition in the Old South

The Human Tradition in the Old South

Author: James C Klotter
ISBN: 9781299135901
Format: Electronic book text
$153.07

The importance of the South in the development of the United States has always been clear, but in recent decades...  Read More >>

Life of Irene Nemirovsky, The: 1903-1942

Life of Irene Nemirovsky, The: 1903-1942

Author: Olivier Philipponnat ,  Patrick Lienhardt
ISBN: 9781299204256
Format: Electronic book text
$224.40

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 3: The Streatham Years: Part 1, 1778-1779

Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 3:...

Author: Lars E Troide ,  Steward J Cooke
ISBN: 9781283529266
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

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Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 2

Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Volume 2...

Author: Lars E Troide
ISBN: 9781283529273
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

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Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution

Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and...

Author: Peter Matthiessen ,  Marc Grossman
ISBN: 9780520282506
Format: Paperback
$40.95

First California paperback, 2000 --Title page verso.  Read More >>

De Profundis: Out of the Depths

De Profundis: Out of the Depths

Author: Fred Pietrowski
ISBN: 9781478725367
Format: Paperback
$25.75

De Profundis Out of the Depths tells the story about escaping my near death-like experiences aboard two different...  Read More >>

Prisoner of War

Prisoner of War

Author: Sam Caplan
ISBN: 9781910104347
Format: Paperback
$23.26

In June of 1942 Rommel's army pressed forwards through the deserts of the Middle East and when The Second South...  Read More >>

Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice

Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice...

Author: Paula Byrne (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9780062310774
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson,...  Read More >>

The Borgias: The Hidden History

The Borgias: The Hidden History

Author: G. J. Meyer
ISBN: 9780345526922
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account...  Read More >>

Barbara F. Vucanovich: From Nevada to Congress, and Back Again

Barbara F. Vucanovich: From Nevada to Congress, and...

Author: Barbara F. Vucanovich ,  Patricia D. Cafferata
ISBN: 9780874179439
Format: Paperback
$65.87

When Reno Republican Barbara Vucanovich was elected to Congress in 1982, she became the first Nevada woman ever...  Read More >>

The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate...

Author: Bernard Wasserstein
ISBN: 9780674281387
Format: Hardback
$74.95

Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she...  Read More >>

Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975, Revised Edition

Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975,...

Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ,  Jennifer Baumgardner
ISBN: 9780806144795
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's odyssey from Oklahoma poverty to the urban New Left gives a working-class, feminist perspective...  Read More >>

King Arthur's European Realm: New Evidence from Monmouth's Primary Sources

King Arthur's European Realm: New Evidence from Monmouth's...

Author: Paul Sire
ISBN: 9780786478019
Format: Paperback
$79.07

King Arthur was as true as life, as this book proves with documentary evidence. It also incorporates a whole body...  Read More >>

Lincoln's Campaign Biographies

Lincoln's Campaign Biographies

Author: Thomas A. Horrocks
ISBN: 9780809333318
Format: Hardback
$65.87

During the 1860 and 1864 presidential campaigns, Abraham Lincoln was the subject of over twenty campaign biographies....  Read More >>

The River Was Dyed with Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow

The River Was Dyed with Blood: Nathan Bedford Forrest...

Author: Brian Steel Wills
ISBN: 9780806144535
Format: Hardback
$86.99

The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest has been shaped by the “massacre” of Union...  Read More >>

Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood: Partners in Command

Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood: Partners in Command...

Author: John S. Eisenhower
ISBN: 9780826220004
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Theodore Roosevelt was a man of wide interests, strong opinions, and intense ambition for both himself and his country....  Read More >>

James Madison: A Life Reconsidered

James Madison: A Life Reconsidered

Author: Lynne Cheney ,  Eliza Foss
ISBN: 9781611762785
Format: Audio
$105.47

A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne...  Read More >>

My Life

My Life

Author: Oswald Mosley
ISBN: 9780992736569
Format: Hardback
$56.93

During his long life, the British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley knew just about everybody worth knowing. Politicians...  Read More >>

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