Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Placing Nice in the Sandbox: One Soldier's Stories and Observations from the Battle for Hearts and Minds

Placing Nice in the Sandbox: One Soldier's Stories and...

Author: Steve Goldblatt
ISBN: 9781614345329
Format: Paperback
$64.42

When the history of the Iraq war is written, it will come from the memoirs of people like SGT (ret.) Steve Goldblatt....  Read More >>

All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War...

Author: David Scheffer
ISBN: 9786613339768
Format: Electronic book text
$110.88

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Five Lives: The Spirit of Survival: War time memories as seen through the eyes of children.

Five Lives: The Spirit of Survival: War time memories...

Author: Ilse Van Goth
ISBN: 9781469902241
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Imagine living through daily Allied air raids in WWII - as a young child. Only to have those bombing raids replaced...  Read More >>

The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian

The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian...

Author: F. Robert van der Linden ,  Dane Penland
ISBN: 9781588343161
Format: Paperback
$55.00

The Nation's Hangar- Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian offers a fascinating textual and visual history of civilian,...  Read More >>

Breaking the Code: A Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey, and the Question That Changed Everything

Breaking the Code: A Father's Secret, a Daughter's Journey,...

Author: Karen Fisher-Alaniz ,  Karen Fisher-Alaniz
ISBN: 9781402261121
Format: Paperback
$39.57

On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Fisher-Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside...  Read More >>

Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last

Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald...

Author: Rabbi Israel Meir Lau ,  Elie Wiesel
ISBN: 9781402786310
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Including Poor Richard's Almanac, and Familiar Letters

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Including Poor...

Author: Benjamin Franklin
ISBN: 9781616405519
Format: Hardback
$67.25

"Printer, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, scientist, librarian, diplomat, inventor, philosopher, self-aggrandizer,...  Read More >>

And There Was Courage

And There Was Courage

Author: Moshe Avital
ISBN: 9781936778805
Format: Hardback
$65.87

At the start of World War II, the Jews of Europe were not prepared for armed resistance against the Germans and...  Read More >>

Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk

Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures...

Author: Benjamin Drake
ISBN: 9783842486584
Format: Paperback
$33.61

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature...  Read More >>

J. Van Lindley: His Ancestors, Life, and Legacy

J. Van Lindley: His Ancestors, Life, and Legacy

Author: Joseph C Carlin
ISBN: 9781463624026
Format: Paperback
$52.80

"Several generations of the Lindley family were an integral part of early American and Quaker history. From 1615...  Read More >>

Up the Capitol Steps: A Woman's March to the Governorship

Up the Capitol Steps: A Woman's March to the Governorship...

Author: Barbara Roberts
ISBN: 9780870716102
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This is a personal and political memoir by Oregon's first (and only) woman governor, one of only 34 women who have...  Read More >>

Boss Tweed: the Corrupt Pol who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York

Boss Tweed: the Corrupt Pol who Conceived the Soul of...

Author: Kenneth D Ackerman
ISBN: 9781619450073
Format: Paperback
$46.58

William Magear Tweed, America's most corrupt politician ever, ruled New York City in the 1860s and 1870s. He rigged...  Read More >>

Fabulous Korean Four: Autobiographies

Fabulous Korean Four: Autobiographies

Author: James Park ,  Andrew Mun
ISBN: 9781596891135
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Korean middle school students document their history in this collection of autobiographies.  Read More >>

Jose de Bustamante and Central American Independence: Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis

Jose de Bustamante and Central American Independence:...

Author: Timothy P. Hawkins
ISBN: 9780817357108
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The first full-length study of a significant figure of the Spanish Enlightenment  Read More >>

The Allstons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry

The Allstons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility...

Author: William Kauffman Scarborough
ISBN: 9780807138434
Format: Hardback
$92.40

William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South...  Read More >>

Common Warfare: Parallel Memoirs by Two World War II GIs in the Pacific

Common Warfare: Parallel Memoirs by Two World War II...

Author: Carl M. Becker ,  Robert G. Thobaben
ISBN: 9780786467433
Format: Paperback
$66.00

The vast majority of soldiers and sailors fighting in World War II did not engage the enemy directly. Indeed, for...  Read More >>

Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World War II

Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World...

Author: Stephen R. Taaffe
ISBN: 9780700619429
Format: Paperback
$73.89

The first and only book to focus entirely on the selection and performance of American army generals in both major...  Read More >>

My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped

My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His...

Author: Lev Raphael
ISBN: 9780299231545
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"Haunted by his parents' horrific suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, Lev Raphael grew up loathing everything...  Read More >>

The Would-Be Pioneers

The Would-Be Pioneers

Author: Ruth Geraldine Wilcoxson ,  Rosanne (Wilcoxson) Priddy
ISBN: 9781619042292
Format: Paperback
$87.09

"Ruth She was a little princess, flaunting her curls and bows Her mother always had her in pretty little clothes...  Read More >>

Last Dictatorship in Europe: Belarus Under Lukashenko

Last Dictatorship in Europe: Belarus Under Lukashenko...

Author: Brian Bennett
ISBN: 9780199327591
Format: Hardback
$99.00

A critical account of Lukashenko of Belarus that covers the collapse of the Soviet Union until the present day....  Read More >>

Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

Author: Louis Kraft
ISBN: 9780806142265
Format: Hardback
$92.27

When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers...  Read More >>

The Wartime Journals

The Wartime Journals

Author: Hugh Trevor-Roper (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Richard Davenport-Hines (All Soul's College, University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781848859906
Format: Hardback
$90.00

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a...  Read More >>

Der Historiker Friedrich Christoph Schlosser und die Geschichtsschreibung

Der Historiker Friedrich Christoph Schlosser und die...

Author: Ottokar Lorenz
ISBN: 9783863471910
Format: Paperback
$131.74

In diesem 1868 erstmals erschienenen Nekrolog auf Friedrich Christoph Schlosser (1776-1861), einem der meistgelesenen...  Read More >>

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