Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Unveranderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1920.  Read More >>

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing...  Read More >>

The second volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume biography tells the story of the eventful middle years...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave,...  Read More >>

This first major biography of de Gaulle written by an American from an American perspective offers fresh evaluations...  Read More >>

This is a history of the Cuban revolution viewed from its dungeons. Arrested at the age of twenty-two for being...  Read More >>

Peter Levi emphasizes the local and national events that shaped Shakespeares experiences, his family and friends,...  Read More >>

Whittaker Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies...penetrating and terrible...  Read More >>

Helen Colijns account of her wartime experiences is a window into a largely overlooked dimension of World War II:...  Read More >>

The fourth volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning work recounts Thomas Jefferson's eventful first presidential term....  Read More >>

The Sage of Monticello is the sixth and final volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone's epic masterwork,...  Read More >>

"The fifth volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jefferson series completes the story of his presidency, carrying...  Read More >>

The third volume in Dumas Malone's distinguished, Pulitzer Prize-winning study of Thomas Jefferson and his time...  Read More >>

A master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer, Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography....  Read More >>

A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled...  Read More >>

Benjamin Franklin remains unsurpassed in the wide range of his natural gifts and the important uses to which he...  Read More >>

Reputed to have killed his first man at the age of twelve, William Bonney went on to gun his way into Western legend...  Read More >>

A man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote...  Read More >>

Otto von Bismarck war von 1871 bis 1890 der erste Reichskanzler des Deutschen Reiches und an dessen Gründung maßgeblich...  Read More >>

At the age of 13 Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a...  Read More >>

At the age of 13 Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a...  Read More >>

Andy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917, the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants. He was tipped for Olympic glory,...  Read More >>

An historical fiction novel that paints a vivid picture of life in the coal mining villages of Scotland in the early...  Read More >>

Andy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917, the oldest child of poor Irish immigrants. He was tipped for Olympic glory,...  Read More >>