Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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A Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890-1965

A Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis...

Author: John A. Salmond
ISBN: 9780807897706
Format: Paperback
$158.40

Williams, an Alabama liberal committed to civil rights long before such a position was expedient in the South, became...  Read More >>

Diary of a Sit-In

Diary of a Sit-In

Author: Merrill Proudfoot
ISBN: 9780807867594
Format: Paperback
$132.00

This is the first-person account of Proudfoot, who participated in the 1960 sit-in in Knoxville, Tennessee. This...  Read More >>

A Southern Moderate Speaks

A Southern Moderate Speaks

Author: Brooks Hays
ISBN: 9780807896808
Format: Paperback
$132.00

This book is Brooks Hays's own story of the political career that produced his moderate attitude on the desegretation...  Read More >>

Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger

Come Up and Get Me: An Autobiography of Colonel Joe...

Author: Joe Kittinger ,  Craig Ryan
ISBN: 9780826348043
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973 Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired...  Read More >>

Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line

Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line...

Author: Helen M. Chesnutt
ISBN: 9780807896365
Format: Paperback
$105.60

The driving force in Chesnutt's life was the wish to help his race. Long before the days of the NAACP, which he...  Read More >>

Dr. John Mitchell: The Man Who Made the Map of North America

Dr. John Mitchell: The Man Who Made the Map of North...

Author: Dorothy Smith Berkeley
ISBN: 9780807896181
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Offers the first full-length biography of a man who was primarily a botanist but who is best known for his map of...  Read More >>

The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman

The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman

Author: Maury Klein
ISBN: 9780807865538
Format: Paperback
$132.00

To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E.H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J.P. Morgan and Andrew...  Read More >>

Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South

Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician,...

Author: Dorothy S. Shawhan ,  Martha H. Swain
ISBN: 9780807138755
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Mississippi native Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895-1997) championed for the rights of women long before feminism was...  Read More >>

Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man

Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man

Author: Barton H. Barbour ,  Richard Etulain
ISBN: 9780806141961
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland...  Read More >>

Loves of Yulian: Mother and Me, Part III

Loves of Yulian: Mother and Me, Part III

Author: Julian Padowicz
ISBN: 9780897336161
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Continues: A ship in the harbor. Chicago, Ill.: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009.  Read More >>

Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory

Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History...

Author: Wallace Hettle
ISBN: 9780807137819
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson have proved uneven...  Read More >>

In the Whirlpool: The Pre-Manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885–1890

In the Whirlpool: The Pre-Manifesto Letters of President...

Author: Reid L. Neilson ,  Thomas G. Alexander
ISBN: 9780870623905
Format: Hardback
$79.07

"Political and religious turmoil in the late 1800s plagued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its...  Read More >>

The Perfect Lion: The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham

The Perfect Lion: The Life and Death of Confederate...

Author: Jerry Maxwell
ISBN: 9780817317355
Format: Hardback
$131.87

An Alabama native, John Pelham left West Point for service in the Confederacy and distinguished himself as an artillery...  Read More >>

Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General

Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General

Author: Mungo Melvin
ISBN: 9780312563127
Format: Hardback
$99.00

First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson --T.p. verso.  Read More >>

A Matter of Trust: Taking a $2 Stock to $140,000

A Matter of Trust: Taking a $2 Stock to $140,000

Author: Glen R Johnson
ISBN: 9781934002193
Format: Hardback
$66.00

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Turnip Town

Turnip Town

Author: W R Painter
ISBN: 9781462607310
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Will Harkins, searching for adventure joined the U.S Air Force in nineteen sixty-six and like so many other young...  Read More >>

The Astonishing General: The Life and Legacy of Sir Isaac Brock

The Astonishing General: The Life and Legacy of Sir...

Author: Wesley B Turner
ISBN: 9786613303417
Format: Electronic book text
$110.88

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Das Handwerk des Lebens erlernen: Protokollnotizen aus dem Arbeitsalltag einer berufsbildenden Schule

Das Handwerk des Lebens erlernen: Protokollnotizen aus...

Author: Manfred Kranz
ISBN: 9783842396425
Format: Paperback
$46.20

Die SPANDAUER ZITADELLE war einst die berühmteste und wichtigste Festung Brandenburgs. Im 16. Jahrhundert gebaut,...  Read More >>

Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence

Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence

Author: Katherine Parr ,  Janel M Mueller
ISBN: 9786613362759
Format: Electronic book text
$205.92

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Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Author: Rebecca Boehling ,  Uta Larkey (Goucher College, Baltimore)
ISBN: 9786613640871
Format: Electronic book text
$95.01

A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account...  Read More >>

I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror

I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi...

Author: Joachim Neugroschel ,  Pierre Seel
ISBN: 9780465018482
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A new edition of Pierre Seel's moving testimony of deportation for homosexuality--a classic of Holocaust literature...  Read More >>

War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and...

Author: John F. Ross
ISBN: 9780553384574
Format: Paperback
$40.00

This single-volume historical narrative is perfect for fans of David McCullough's 1776 and Jon Meacham's American...  Read More >>

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