Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23597 books were found.

The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight

The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles...

Author: MR Winston Groom ,  Robertson Dean
ISBN: 9781482932164
Format: Audio
$118.67

"Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of...  Read More >>

Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior

Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior

Author: Rorke Denver ,  Rorke Denver
ISBN: 9781480592452
Format: Audio
$52.77

With all the SEALs' recent successes, we have been getting a level of attention we are not used to. It's been flattering...  Read More >>

War from the inside

War from the inside

Author: Frederick Lyman Hitchcock
ISBN: 9785518714755
Format: Paperback
$77.50

War from the inside. This book, War from the inside , by Frederick Lyman Hitchcock, is a replication of a book...  Read More >>

John Buchan: Model Governor General

John Buchan: Model Governor General

Author: J. William Galbraith ,  David Johnston, Governor General of Canada
ISBN: 9781459709379
Format: Hardback
$69.84

An accomplished Scottish thriller writer, journalist, soldier, spy, and Member of Parliament, John Buchan, 1st Baron...  Read More >>

Brothers in Arms: A compelling, emotional and humorous biography covering over 100 years of post-European settlement in Australia

Brothers in Arms: A compelling, emotional and humorous...

Author: Ian Minchin
ISBN: 9780987567307
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Two generations of brothers. Two world wars. This inspiring biography, told with openness and humour, captures the...  Read More >>

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

Author: Artemis Cooper
ISBN: 9781590176740
Format: Hardback
$79.20

The authorized biography shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year, the National Book Awards and the Costa Biography...  Read More >>

My Special Force: The Warrior Who Taught Me the Meaning of Life and Love

My Special Force: The Warrior Who Taught Me the Meaning...

Author: Heather Means
ISBN: 9780984954360
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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Embedded Enemy: The Insider Threat

Embedded Enemy: The Insider Threat

Author: (Ret ) Command Sergeant Major
ISBN: 9780989800808
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Shortly after deploying for the war in Iraq, an unprecedented attack was about to take place; the first of it's...  Read More >>

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Author: Henry Morgenthau, III
ISBN: 9781230390635
Format: Paperback
$14.81

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Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance...

Author: Stephen Grady ,  Michael Wright
ISBN: 9781444760620
Format: Paperback
$27.99

An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable...  Read More >>

These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945

These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime...

Author: May Smith ,  Juliet Gardiner
ISBN: 9781844088119
Format: Paperback
$26.99

'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.  Read More >>

Warrenpoint

Warrenpoint

Author: Denis Donoghue
ISBN: 9781564788726
Format: Paperback
$36.96

A novelistic family romance from a key figure in contemporary literature, focusing with lyrical detail on his coming...  Read More >>

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

Author: Peter Baker ,  Mark Deakins
ISBN: 9780385362368
Format: Audio
$184.80

In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and...  Read More >>

Lenin: A New Biography

Lenin: A New Biography

Author: Dmitri Volkogonov
ISBN: 9781476764849
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Dmitri Volkogonov, the special assistant to Boris Yeltsin, uses secret Soviet archives to shift the perspective...  Read More >>

The Barack Obama Miscellany

The Barack Obama Miscellany

Author: Mark Hanks
ISBN: 9781306015493
Format: Electronic book text
$37.99

Did you know, for example, that his first job was scooping ice-cream at Baskin-Robbins? Or that his favorite book...  Read More >>

This Way to the Revolution: A Memoir

This Way to the Revolution: A Memoir

Author: Erin Pizzey
ISBN: 9781306022316
Format: Electronic book text
$47.49

First full biography of an international figure, recently in the news after her successful libel case against Andrew...  Read More >>

Mad Dog

Mad Dog

Author: Johnny Adair
ISBN: 9781306014816
Format: Electronic book text
$18.98

Raised as a Protestant, Johnny Adair earned his reputation as a paramilitary leader long before he understood the...  Read More >>

Secrets and Lies

Secrets and Lies

Author: Christine Keeler
ISBN: 9781306015837
Format: Electronic book text
$53.83

Christine Keeler s name is as synonymous with the sexual revolution as the Pill. Her short affair with the Minister...  Read More >>

The life of General Stonewall Jackson

The life of General Stonewall Jackson

Author: Professor Mary L Williamson
ISBN: 9785518739758
Format: Paperback
$158.27

The life of General Stonewall Jackson. In easy words for the young. This book, The life of General Stonewall Jackson,...  Read More >>

The life of Marie de Medicis queen of France Volume 3

The life of Marie de Medicis queen of France Volume...

Author: Julia Pardoe
ISBN: 9785518734388
Format: Paperback
$118.67

The life of Marie de Medicis queen of France, consort of Henry IV, and regent of the kingdom under Louis XIII. This...  Read More >>

Lt. Col. King Bryan of Hood's Texas Brigade

Lt. Col. King Bryan of Hood's Texas Brigade

Author: Michael Dan Jones
ISBN: 9781484948057
Format: Paperback
$42.77

"This is the story of Lieutenant Colonel Kindallis ""King"" Bryan, original commander of Company F (Invincibles...  Read More >>

I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds...

Author: Henry Orenstein ,  Henry Orenstein
ISBN: 9798200625994
Format: Audio
$79.15

I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power...  Read More >>

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