Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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My Longest Night: A Twelve-Year-Old Heroine's Stirring Account of D-Day and After

My Longest Night: A Twelve-Year-Old Heroine's Stirring...

Author: Genevieve Duboscq
ISBN: 9781611457216
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Fifty years have passed since the Normandy landing that began the liberation of France from Nazi occupation. This...  Read More >>

The Rise of Sarasota: Ken Thompson and the Rebirth of Paradise

The Rise of Sarasota: Ken Thompson and the Rebirth of...

Author: Jeff Lahurd
ISBN: 9781609498344
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Ken Thompson served as Sarasota's city manager from 1950 to 1988, making him the longest-serving manager in United...  Read More >>

Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

Author: George Howe Colt ,  David Drummond
ISBN: 9798200071128
Format: Audio
$63.33

From the bestselling National Book Award finalist, a masterful blend of history and memoir featuring the author's...  Read More >>

Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

Author: George Howe Colt ,  David Drummond
ISBN: 9798200071111
Format: Audio
$63.33

From the bestselling National Book Award finalist, a masterful blend of history and memoir featuring the author's...  Read More >>

To Russia with Love: An Alaskan's Journey

To Russia with Love: An Alaskan's Journey

Author: Victor Fischer ,  Charles Wohlforth
ISBN: 9781602231399
Format: Hardback
$81.71

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian...  Read More >>

Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II

Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who...

Author: Philip Eade
ISBN: 9781250013637
Format: Paperback
$63.33

Before he met the young girl who became Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip had a tumultuous upbringing in Greece,...  Read More >>

Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

Author: George Howe Colt ,  David Drummond
ISBN: 9798200071104
Format: Audio
$63.33

From the bestselling National Book Award finalist, a masterful blend of history and memoir featuring the author's...  Read More >>

Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War

Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of...

Author: Richard Bonin
ISBN: 9780767928762
Format: Paperback
$42.24

The definitive account of what Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi did to manipulate the U.S. government into invading Iraq...  Read More >>

Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France

Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied...

Author: Sarah Lew Miller ,  Joyce B. Lazarus
ISBN: 9780897336789
Format: Hardback
$85.80

Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood...  Read More >>

Maxims of General Patton, The

Maxims of General Patton, The

Author: Gary Bloomfield ,  Gary L Bloomfield
ISBN: 9781455617241
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Gen. George S. Patton was one of the most tenacious, unstoppable players in the United States' European Campaign...  Read More >>

The Bells Ring No More

The Bells Ring No More

Author: John Tschinkel
ISBN: 9781478274742
Format: Paperback
$57.55

Most serious historians would estimate that at least 40 million people perished in the death camps and on the killing...  Read More >>

From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King

From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black...

Author: Robert Hillary King ,  Mumia Abu-Jamal
ISBN: 9781604865752
Format: Paperback
$34.99

In 1970, a jury convicted the author of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He was...  Read More >>

My Life in Politics

My Life in Politics

Author: Jacques Chirac ,  Catherine Spencer
ISBN: 9780230340886
Format: Hardback
$49.14

Two-time French president Jacques Chirac is a pivotal figure in the twentieth-century political landscape - here,...  Read More >>

A Man from Donegal

A Man from Donegal

Author: James Harley
ISBN: 9781780034669
Format: Paperback
$20.67

A brilliant autobiography which James (Jimmy) started writing at eighty seven years of age.  Read More >>

Sparrow - A Chronicle of Defiance: An epic account of The Sparrows - Battle of Britain gunners who defended Timor in 1942 as part of Sparrow Force.

Sparrow - A Chronicle of Defiance: An epic account of...

Author: Grant McLeod McLachlan
ISBN: 9781481037518
Format: Paperback
$102.93

(www.sparrowbook.net) Sparrow is a seldom-heard but uplifting story of The Sparrows - Battle of Britain gunners...  Read More >>

Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom...

Author: Clarence Darrow ,  Arthur Weinberg
ISBN: 9780226136509
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) is one of the true...  Read More >>

The Life of Cesare Borgia

The Life of Cesare Borgia

Author: Raphael Sabatini ,  Desmond Gahan
ISBN: 9781480286429
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave: The True Story of an American Slave

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American...

Author: Frederick Douglass ,  Stephen Ashley
ISBN: 9781480282254
Format: Paperback
$23.63

The true story of an American Slave In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket,...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper

The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper

Author: James Carnac ,  Alan Hicken
ISBN: 9780552165396
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman

Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman

Author: James C Humes ,  Matthew Brenher
ISBN: 9781470807931
Format: Audio
$200.64

James C. Humes reveals Winston Churchill'sastonishingly accurate predictions, from foreseeing the start of World...  Read More >>

Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman

Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman

Author: James C Humes ,  Matthew Brenher
ISBN: 9781470807955
Format: Audio
$79.07

James C. Humes reveals Winston Churchill'sastonishingly accurate predictions, from foreseeing the start of World...  Read More >>

Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman

Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman

Author: James C Humes ,  Matthew Brenher
ISBN: 9781470807948
Format: Audio
$79.07

James C. Humes reveals shocking predictions made by Britain's most famous prime minister. Churchill didn't need...  Read More >>

Eleven Out of Ten: The Life and Work of David Pecaut

Eleven Out of Ten: The Life and Work of David Pecaut...

Author: Helen Burstyn
ISBN: 9781459707948
Format: Undefined
$26.37

David Pecaut effected great change on his adopted city of Toronto. This tireless social and cultural activist and...  Read More >>

Eleven Out of Ten: The Life and Work of David Pecaut

Eleven Out of Ten: The Life and Work of David Pecaut...

Author: Helen Burstyn
ISBN: 9781459707931
Format: Undefined
$92.40

David Pecaut effected great change on his adopted city of Toronto. This tireless social and cultural activist and...  Read More >>

Tributes Delivered in Congress, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., United States Senator, 1973-2009

Tributes Delivered in Congress, Joseph R. Biden, Jr.,...

Author: Senate of the United States of America
ISBN: 9780160911347
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Tributes from fellow members of Congress to Vice President Joseph R. Biden for his service as a United States Senator...  Read More >>

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