Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23597 books were found.

Whitey Joins the Revolution: My Time with the Movement

Whitey Joins the Revolution: My Time with the Movement...

Author: Franklynn Peterson
ISBN: 9781490531489
Format: Paperback
$30.97

Born in Wisconsin's North Woods during the Great Depression. Father, out of work, in Civilian Conservation Corps.....  Read More >>

'This is WAR!': The Diaries and Journalism of Anthony Cotterell 1940-1944

'This is WAR!': The Diaries and Journalism of Anthony...

Author: Jennie Gray
ISBN: 9780752493091
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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Pathbreakers: U.S. Marine African American Officers in Their Own Words: U.S. Marine African American Officers in Their Own Words

Pathbreakers: U.S. Marine African American Officers...

Author: Marine Corps (U S ) ,  Kurtis P Wheeler
ISBN: 9780160920868
Format: Paperback
$71.28

"""Pathbreakers"" highlights the experiences of African American officers in the U.S. Marine Corps from the mid-twentieth...  Read More >>

An Impatient Life: A Memoir

An Impatient Life: A Memoir

Author: Daniel Bensaïd ,  Tariq Ali
ISBN: 9781781681084
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The turbulent story of the radical Left in the eloquent words of one of its foremost leaders  Read More >>

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

Author: Solomon Northup ,  Henry Louis Gates
ISBN: 9780143125419
Format: Paperback
$47.52

The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor,...  Read More >>

Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere

Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere

Author: Poe Ballantine ,  Cheryl Strayed
ISBN: 9780983477549
Format: Paperback
$44.75

At age forty six years US author Poe Ballantine ends his nomadic lifestyle and brings his beautiful wife from Mexico...  Read More >>

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of...

Author: Henry M Paulson, Jr.
ISBN: 9781455551903
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 until 2009 and former CEO of Goldman Sachs, provides an insider's account...  Read More >>

Charles II

Charles II

Author: Osmund Airy
ISBN: 9785518594876
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Charles II. (1904). This book, Charles II, by Osmund Airy, is a replication of a book originally published before...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave

Author: Solomon Northup ,  Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jr. (W E B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research)
ISBN: 9780606351270
Format: Hardback
$74.45

For use in schools and libraries only. Describes the life of Solomon Northup, a free Black man from Saratoga, N.Y.,...  Read More >>

Robert Henry: A Western Carolina Patriot

Robert Henry: A Western Carolina Patriot

Author: Richard Russell ,  Wayne Caldwell
ISBN: 9781626191457
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Robert Henry is a character more suited for fiction than nonfiction. While just a boy, he fought with the Overmountain...  Read More >>

Liberation: The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember

Liberation: The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember...

Author: Anne Van Arragon Hutten ,  Tom Bijvoet
ISBN: 9780991998104
Format: Paperback
$28.33

'The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember' is a series of books containing the wartime memories of Dutch immigrants...  Read More >>

At Home in the World

At Home in the World

Author: Joyce Maynard
ISBN: 9781250046444
Format: Paperback
$47.52

This coming-of-age memoir, which outraged some and inspired others when first released in 1998, goes beyond Maynard's...  Read More >>

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

Author: Kofi Annan ,  Nader Mousavizadeh
ISBN: 9780143123958
Format: Paperback
$79.20

With eloquence and immediacy, the author recounts the highs and lows of his years at the United Nations: from shuttle-diplomacy...  Read More >>

Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who...

Author: Thomas Harding
ISBN: 9781476711843
Format: Hardback
$68.64

WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to justice....  Read More >>

Salinger

Salinger

Author: David Shields ,  Shane Salerno
ISBN: 9781476744834
Format: Hardback
$99.00

THE BOY WHO BECAME A REBEL. THE REBEL WHO BECAME A SOLDIER. THE SOLDIER WHO BECAME AN ICON. THE ICON WHO DISAPPEARED....  Read More >>

The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret

The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman's Quest to Uncover...

Author: Eve Haas
ISBN: 9781611459067
Format: Hardback
$60.59

"""The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life - August your protector."" This one sentence was...  Read More >>

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Barack Obama, 2009, Book 2

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States:...

Author: U S Office of the Federal Register
ISBN: 9780160860867
Format: Hardback
$293.04

Contains public messages and statements of the President of the United States released by the White House from July...  Read More >>

Confessions of a Nuclear Dinosaur

Confessions of a Nuclear Dinosaur

Author: Ronald L Kirkland
ISBN: 9781462730339
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Ronald L. Kirkland spent forty-four years as a nuclear shipbuilder at General Dynamics Electric Boat; during that...  Read More >>

First in His Class: Captain Oberlin Carter and the Savannah Harbor Scandal

First in His Class: Captain Oberlin Carter and the Savannah...

Author: Philip W Leon
ISBN: 9780788450228
Format: Paperback
$73.92

"Captain Oberlin M. Carter was one of the army's rising stars in the 1890s. He graduated first in his class at West...  Read More >>

John Jay: The Forgotten Founder

John Jay: The Forgotten Founder

Author: John M Pafford
ISBN: 9780788450099
Format: Paperback
$49.16

As the third century of American history develops, it is essential to renew our knowledge of and respect for the...  Read More >>

Studies in Intelligence: Journal of the American Intelligence Professional, Unclassified Articles from Studies in Intelligence, V. 57, No. 2 (June 2013)

Studies in Intelligence: Journal of the American Intelligence...

Author: Center for the Study of Intelligence (U S ) ,  Andres Vaart
ISBN: 9780160920967
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Includes articles and book reviews about intelligence history. Also includes a review of a film.  Read More >>

Das letzte Schuljahr

Das letzte Schuljahr

Author: Wilfried Baumann
ISBN: 9781494328009
Format: Paperback
$47.84

Der Roman schildert den normalen Schulalltag in der DDR, wie er sich Jahr fur Jahr abspielte. Keiner konnte damals...  Read More >>

Southampton's Lucky Jim - A County Borough Copper in the 50's and 60's

Southampton's Lucky Jim - A County Borough Copper in...

Author: Jim Brown
ISBN: 9781780913308
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo

Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Pagan Kennedy
ISBN: 9780988225268
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Originally published: New York: Viking, 2002.  Read More >>

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