Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Thomas Wolsey, the Late Cardinal: His Life and Death

Thomas Wolsey, the Late Cardinal: His Life and Death...

Author: George Cavendish ,  Roger Lockyer (Royal Holloway UK)
ISBN: 9781441758156
Format: Audio
$79.07

"This extraordinary ""eye-witness"" account of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's rise and fall from power was written between...  Read More >>

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life

Author: Susan Hertog ,  Gavin, Marguerite
ISBN: 9781441785022
Format: Audio
$92.27

This illuminating portrait of a loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically-acclaimed author...  Read More >>

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the...

Author: Professor David J Garrow (Emory University) ,  Jeff Riggenbach
ISBN: 9781441746313
Format: Audio
$131.87

Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive...  Read More >>

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Author: Allen C Guelzo (Gettysburg College) ,  Edward Lewis
ISBN: 9781441784056
Format: Audio
$105.47

Guelzo presents Lincoln as a serious thinker deeply involved in the problems of nineteenth-century thought, including...  Read More >>

Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War

Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War

Author: Burke Davis ,  Christopher Hurt
ISBN: 9781441746511
Format: Audio
$86.99

Robert E. Lee, a Christian and a gentleman, was the most remarkable man to emerge from the Civil War and one of...  Read More >>

Churchill: A Biography

Churchill: A Biography

Author: Roy Jenkins ,  Simon Vance
ISBN: 9781441759924
Format: Audio
$105.47

From a very young age, Churchill believed he was destined to play a great role in the life of his nation. Roy Jenkinss...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin ,  Michael Edwards
ISBN: 9781441788122
Format: Audio
$79.07

Franklin was many things: printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, diplomat, and not least, a writer. His fine...  Read More >>

Theodore Roosevelt Abroad: Nature, Empire, and the Journey of an American President

Theodore Roosevelt Abroad: Nature, Empire, and the Journey...

Author: J. Lee Thompson
ISBN: 9781137306395
Format: Paperback
$84.99

In a life full of momentous episodes, Theodore Roosevelt's fifteen-month post-presidential odyssey to Africa and...  Read More >>

The Child of Gulag

The Child of Gulag

Author: Yuri Feynberg
ISBN: 9781622952403
Format: Paperback
$68.61

This story is based on the life of author Yuri Feynberg, who is one of the last surviving children of the Soviet...  Read More >>

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself...

Author: Harriet A Jacobs
ISBN: 9784479570165
Format: Hardback
$138.86

Japanese edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself. Harriet Jacobs was a real slave owned...  Read More >>

Jeanette Manuel: The Life and Legend of the Belle of Fabulous Florence

Jeanette Manuel: The Life and Legend of the Belle of...

Author: Herman Wiley Ronnenberg
ISBN: 9780981840864
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Experience the Life of a Young Frontier Woman. The favorite child of the roaring camp of Scott Bar, California....  Read More >>

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women...

Author: Denise Kiernan
ISBN: 9781410456472
Format: Hardback
$87.09

Originally published: New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2013.  Read More >>

Mail Call: The Wartime Correspondence of an American Couple 1943-1945

Mail Call: The Wartime Correspondence of an American...

Author: Terri Halbreich David
ISBN: 9781938812071
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, a dental student and a college coed were married in Brooklyn. As the groom was also...  Read More >>

Joseph Lee Heywood: His Life and Tragic Death

Joseph Lee Heywood: His Life and Tragic Death

Author: Gerald D Otis, PhD
ISBN: 9781482673821
Format: Paperback
$19.67

Joseph Lee Heywood is known as the bank cashier who dared to say No! to Jesse James and his party of bandits and...  Read More >>

Children of Dust and Heaven: A Diary from Nazi Occupation through the Holocaust

Children of Dust and Heaven: A Diary from Nazi Occupation...

Author: Ester Tepper ,  Kalman Aron
ISBN: 9781481865616
Format: Paperback
$47.52

This is a riveting collective memoir, which is both incredibly personal and yet tremendous in scope, and all profits...  Read More >>

Airman's Odyssey

Airman's Odyssey

Author: James D Lawrence
ISBN: 9781937565541
Format: Paperback
$59.38

Very few, if any, career officers have had such a varied and extremely interesting career. This writing provides...  Read More >>

The Goddess of War: A True Story of Passion, Betrayal and Murder in the Old West

The Goddess of War: A True Story of Passion, Betrayal...

Author: Dennis McCown
ISBN: 9780865348998
Format: Paperback
$72.45

"John Wesley Hardin is the most famous gunfighter of the American Wild West. The subject of conversations from the...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Charles W Eliot ,  Benjamin Franklin
ISBN: 9781482792591
Format: Paperback
$29.67

Unabridged student-sized 8.5 x11 value reproduction of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. This classic is...  Read More >>

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume 2: Reformer, 1945–1964

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume 2: Reformer, 1945–1964...

Author: Sergei Khrushchev (Brown University)
ISBN: 9780271058597
Format: Paperback
$75.99

In the second volume of three, Khrushchev covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation immediately...  Read More >>

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume 3: Statesman, 1953–1964

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Volume 3: Statesman, 1953–1964...

Author: Sergei Khrushchev (Brown University)
ISBN: 9780271058580
Format: Paperback
$75.99

In this third volume, Khrushchev discusses the search for allies in the Third World. This volume is devoted to international...  Read More >>

The Long Way Home: One Mom's Journey Home from War

The Long Way Home: One Mom's Journey Home from War

Author: Jessica Scott
ISBN: 9781482642315
Format: Paperback
$36.93

My name is Jessica Scott. I am a soldier. I am a mother. I am a wife. In 2009, Army second lieutenant Jessica Scott...  Read More >>

Squaddie: Diary of a Tank Transporter Driver

Squaddie: Diary of a Tank Transporter Driver

Author: MR M G Reeves
ISBN: 9781482732757
Format: Paperback
$35.61

When I was seventeen I joined the British Army with the intention of becoming an HGV driver. I was young, foolish...  Read More >>

Guerrilla Grunt

Guerrilla Grunt

Author: Col Robert L Fischer
ISBN: 9781621372219
Format: Paperback
$21.55

Since World War I, America not only trained for the last war it fought, but also forgot or ignored the lessons of...  Read More >>

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