Autobiography: historical, political & military books

"From ""New York Times"" bestselling and controversial author Steele comes the illuminating examination of the complex...  Read More >>

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The Second World War -- the worst thing that ever happened. It began in September 1939, with Hitler's Wehrmacht...  Read More >>

A true collective account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.  Read More >>

Douglass escaped slavery in 1838 and became a tireless campaigner for abolitionism. This autobiography lays bare...  Read More >>

Memoirs of a Ping Jockey started as the daily journal entries of a Sonarman Third Class pinging for enemy submarines...  Read More >>

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Navy SEAL and author of Overcome Jason Redman’s highly-charged account of his combat missions in Iraq and his miraculous...  Read More >>

In 1945, United States Marine Sergeant Harris C. Ayres of the Twenty-Third Marines etches an enigmatic message on...  Read More >>

Rodney Jetton grew up in the Seventies and Eighties as the son of a Southern Baptist preacher. Being a pastor's...  Read More >>

An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown’s life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental...  Read More >>

Jeff Guy uses biography and history to examine Theophilus Shepstone and his politics as they evolved in the conflicted...  Read More >>

In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada’s Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister....  Read More >>

Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of...  Read More >>

Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of...  Read More >>

Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1991, this classic work has now been revised and updated with additional photos. It is the...  Read More >>

John Stuart Mill, (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant....  Read More >>

On April 10, 1942, Captain Benjamin F. Stakes was taken prisoner on Bataan. For the next three and a half years,...  Read More >>

Nikola Tesla (1857-1943) was a revolutionary Serbian scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity...  Read More >>

True Stories from History and Biography from Nathaniel Hawthorne. American novelist and short story writer (1804-1864)....  Read More >>

Napoleon, finding his proffers of peace rejected by England with contumely and scorn, and declined by Austria, now...  Read More >>

For a young 17 year old boy, the thought of recruitment into the Scots Guards for three years prior to joining the...  Read More >>

It's a tough thing being a mercenary in Iraq. It takes guts. Courage. Self-sacrifice. It requires a steadfast spirit...  Read More >>