Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23614 books were found.

Brown Boy: A Memoir

Brown Boy: A Memoir

Author: Omer Aziz
ISBN: 9781471190339
Format: Hardback
$32.99

A groundbreaking new memoir which charts the author's journey from growing up in a working-class, immigrant family...  Read More >>

Voicing the Eagle: A True Story of Courage and Valor

Voicing the Eagle: A True Story of Courage and Valor...

Author: Amanda Matti
ISBN: 9781504085571
Format: Paperback
$52.77

A young Iraqi shares the true story of his wartime experiences after he was recruited by the US Army as an interpreter....  Read More >>

Pursuing Wisdom

Pursuing Wisdom

Author: Denis Leveille, PH D
ISBN: 9781432768379
Format: Paperback
$44.75

"Author Denis Leveille, Ph.D. has lived an amazing, often challenging, life: He came to the United States at age...  Read More >>

To North Vietnam and Back Again: A Personal Account of Navy A-6 Intruder Operations in Vietnam

To North Vietnam and Back Again: A Personal Account...

Author: Ed Engle
ISBN: 9798889630029
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"This is an autobiography of Edward C. Engle. It tells the story of his childhood and education and eventual migration...  Read More >>

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley...

Author: Betty Webb ,  Charlotte Strevens (Narrator)
ISBN: 9781837700400
Format: Audio
$134.19

As she approached her one hundredth birthday, Betty Webb was finally ready to tell in full the story of her extraordinary...  Read More >>

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley...

Author: Betty Webb ,  Charlotte Strevens (Narrator)
ISBN: 9781837700394
Format: Audio
$117.69

As she approached her one hundredth birthday, Betty Webb was finally ready to tell in full the story of her extraordinary...  Read More >>

Angel Face: The Making of a Criminal

Angel Face: The Making of a Criminal

Author: Walter Probyn
ISBN: 9781032421117
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1977, Angel Face documents the penal life of Walter Probyn, who spent 30 out of 44 years in prison...  Read More >>

Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir

Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir

Author: Marie Yovanovitch
ISBN: 9780063268630
Format: Paperback
$50.13

From the former US ambassador to Ukraine comes an inspiring memoir of the life and work of the woman who electrified...  Read More >>

Experimental Test Pilot: Military Aircraft Research Flying

Experimental Test Pilot: Military Aircraft Research...

Author: Chris Taylor
ISBN: 9781399048859
Format: Hardback
$90.00

Autobiographical readable/humorous account of ten years as an experimental/military test pilot at MOD Boscombe Down....  Read More >>

Diary of an Invasion

Diary of an Invasion

Author: Andrey Kurkov ,  David Aranovich
ISBN: 9798212951029
Format: Audio
$124.05

This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov'swritings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable...  Read More >>

Diary of an Invasion

Diary of an Invasion

Author: Andrey Kurkov ,  David Aranovich
ISBN: 9798212951036
Format: Audio
$110.85

This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov'swritings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable...  Read More >>

阿穆尔的飞龙鸟: Flying Dragons over Amur (Simplified Chinese Language Edition)

阿穆尔的飞龙鸟:...

Author: Jeffrey Ye
ISBN: 9798987899007
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Born to a family of artists in Shanghai, China in the late 1950s, a fateful decision made at the age of seventeen...  Read More >>

The Burden of German History: A Transatlantic Life

The Burden of German History: A Transatlantic Life

Author: Konrad H. Jarausch
ISBN: 9781800739604
Format: Hardback
$230.29

As one of the leading historians of Modern Europe and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades,...  Read More >>

The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted...

Author: Dwight Chapin
ISBN: 9780063074729
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A memoir from President Nixon's aide and White House deputy presents an insider's view of America's most enigmatic...  Read More >>

King Charles III: 100 Moments from His Journey to the Throne

King Charles III: 100 Moments from His Journey to the...

Author: Arthur Edwards ,  The Sun
ISBN: 9780008629304
Format: Hardback
$34.99

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal...  Read More >>

All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer's, and the Search for a Way Home

All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer's, and...

Author: E M Liddick
ISBN: 9781960146090
Format: Paperback
$44.75

An unflinchingly vulnerable memoir, All the Memories That Remain stands witness to one man's fall from grace and...  Read More >>

Memoir of a Pandemic: Fighting COVID from the Front Lines to the White House

Memoir of a Pandemic: Fighting COVID from the Front...

Author: Brett Giroir
ISBN: 9781648431586
Format: Hardback
$86.99

In January 2020, Admiral Brett Giroir, MD, was among the first federal leaders tapped to handle the reintegration...  Read More >>

A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory

A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory

Author: Jeffrey Archer
ISBN: 9781509808885
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The number one bestseller continues his vital account of life inside the British penal system.  Read More >>

A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven

A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven

Author: Jeffrey Archer
ISBN: 9781509820795
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The final volume in Archer’s essential account of life inside the penal system.  Read More >>

A Prison Diary Volume I: Hell

A Prison Diary Volume I: Hell

Author: Jeffrey Archer
ISBN: 9781509808878
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

Author: William Craft ,  Ellen Craft
ISBN: 9788119007929
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by Ellen Craft and William Craft  Read More >>

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Harriet Jacobs
ISBN: 9788119007875
Format: Paperback
$44.85

"One of the most memorable slave narratives, Jacobs' ""Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"" illustrates the overreaching...  Read More >>

Running Deep: An Australian Submarine Life

Running Deep: An Australian Submarine Life

Author: Commodore Peter Scott
ISBN: 9781760992002
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Described by the Honourable Kim Beazley AC as a 'beautifully written memoir', this is the rare and extraordinary...  Read More >>

Dad's Maybe Book

Dad's Maybe Book

Author: Tim O'Brien
ISBN: 9784861829765
Format: Hardback
$229.94

Japanese edition of [Dad's Maybe Book] by Tim O'Brien. Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life...  Read More >>

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