Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Oskar Schindler: Stepping Stone to Life

Oskar Schindler: Stepping Stone to Life

Author: Robin O'Neil ,  Joyce Field
ISBN: 9780984594313
Format: Hardback
$105.47

A reconstruction of the Schindler story.  Read More >>

My Life and Work - An Autobiography of Henry Ford

My Life and Work - An Autobiography of Henry Ford

Author: Mrs Henry Ford
ISBN: 9781617430190
Format: Paperback
$26.27

My Life and Work by Henry Ford is the Autobiography of Henry Ford, the man who revolutionized the world of mass...  Read More >>

From Pin Stripes to Army Stripes

From Pin Stripes to Army Stripes

Author: Michael Riles
ISBN: 9781451214321
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin

Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life...

Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen ,  Lois Betterton
ISBN: 9781441797032
Format: Downloadable audio file
$105.47

A charming and captivating biography of Benjamin Franklin that focuses on specific scenes in Franklin's colorful...  Read More >>

A Rose for Raymonde

A Rose for Raymonde

Author: Wade H Foy
ISBN: 9781883911980
Format: Hardback
$60.72

"Here, then, I offer the account of a pair of life streams that merged: my own and that of Miss Raymonde van Laar,...  Read More >>

A Remarkable Mother

A Remarkable Mother

Author: President Jimmy Carter (Miller Center of Public Affairs)
ISBN: 9781451612981
Format: Paperback
$42.21

A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the...  Read More >>

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Author: Eric Metaxas ,  Malcolm Hillgartner
ISBN: 9781441766045
Format: Audio
$279.71

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Blood on the Constitution

Blood on the Constitution

Author: R S Sukle
ISBN: 9781770670532
Format: Hardback
$105.47

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. - Samuel Adams In the late 1920's, the...  Read More >>

Slice of Life: An Autobiographical Reflection of New York City's SoHo, East-Village, and Wall Street in the 1980s

Slice of Life: An Autobiographical Reflection of New...

Author: Albert Gavalis
ISBN: 9781453699737
Format: Paperback
$18.35

A budding artist comes to New York City in 1980 after having just-graduated at 19. Upon arriving and eventually...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781453701140
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Douglass's graphic depictions of slavery, harrowing escape to freedom, and life as a newspaper editor, eloquent...  Read More >>

Lone Survivor

Lone Survivor

Author: Marcus Luttrell ,  Patrick Robinson
ISBN: 9781607889809
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$118.77

In June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to...  Read More >>

The Diary of Elizabeth Lee: Growing up on Merseyside in the Late Nineteenth Century

The Diary of Elizabeth Lee: Growing up on Merseyside...

Author: Colin Pooley (Department of Geography, Lancaster University (United Kingdom)) ,  Siân Pooley (Magdalen College (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781846311413
Format: Hardback
$211.07

Personal diaries provide rare glimpses into those aspects of the past that are usually hidden from view. However,...  Read More >>

Bullet Proof

Bullet Proof

Author: Matt Croucher GC
ISBN: 9780099543084
Format: Paperback
$19.99

It's Afghanistan, February 2008: in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban...  Read More >>

An Airman of The Queen My Lads

An Airman of The Queen My Lads

Author: Richard Robson
ISBN: 9780755212187
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Richard 'Robby' Robson began his aeronautical career during the perilous dawning of the jet age, during which time...  Read More >>

The Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp: the Experiences of a Soldier in the Kaffir, Mahratta, Ghurka and Pindari Wars of the Early Nineteenth Century

The Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp: the...

Author: John Shipp
ISBN: 9780857062253
Format: Paperback
$50.13

The entertaining memoirs of a British soldier of the empire As the eighteenth century turned to the nineteenth the...  Read More >>

Eight Months' Campaign Against the Bengal Sepoy Army: the Indian Mutiny Experiences of an Officer of the Bengal Horse Artillery

Eight Months' Campaign Against the Bengal Sepoy Army:...

Author: George Bourchier
ISBN: 9780857062178
Format: Paperback
$23.29

A horse gunner's Mutiny experiences Bourchier's is a well known and highly regarded eyewitness account of the Indian...  Read More >>

Campaigns With Hill & Wellington: the Reminiscences of an Officer of the 92nd-the Gordon Highlanders-in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, 1809-1816

Campaigns With Hill & Wellington: the Reminiscences...

Author: James Archibald Hope
ISBN: 9780857062017
Format: Paperback
$47.49

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Andrew Jackson (Illustrated Edition)

Andrew Jackson (Illustrated Edition)

Author: William Garrott Brown
ISBN: 9781406867862
Format: Paperback
$31.42

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The Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp: the Experiences of a Soldier in the Kaffir, Mahratta, Ghurka and Pindari Wars of the Early Nineteenth Century

The Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp: the...

Author: John Shipp
ISBN: 9780857062260
Format: Hardback
$79.17

The entertaining memoirs of a British soldier of the empire As the eighteenth century turned to the nineteenth the...  Read More >>

Campaigns With Hill & Wellington: the Reminiscences of an Officer of the 92nd-the Gordon Highlanders-in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, 1809-1816

Campaigns With Hill & Wellington: the Reminiscences...

Author: James Archibald Hope
ISBN: 9780857062024
Format: Hardback
$76.53

Unusual views of the Peninsular-and the Waterloo campaign Those readers for whom an eyewitness account by a British...  Read More >>

Mariner & Gunner: an English Seaman in the Merchant Marine & The Royal Navy, 1781-1819

Mariner & Gunner: an English Seaman in the Merchant...

Author: William Richardson (University of Exeter UK)
ISBN: 9780857062321
Format: Hardback
$76.53

From merchantman to man-of-war William Richardson was always certain he would be a seaman. His father and all his...  Read More >>

Eight Months' Campaign Against the Bengal Sepoy Army: the Indian Mutiny Experiences of an Officer of the Bengal Horse Artillery

Eight Months' Campaign Against the Bengal Sepoy Army:...

Author: George Bourchier
ISBN: 9780857062185
Format: Hardback
$43.99

A horse gunner's Mutiny experiences Bourchier's is a well known and highly regarded eyewitness account of the Indian...  Read More >>

The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, a Life

The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, a Life

Author: David Lawday
ISBN: 9780802119339
Format: Hardback
$72.60

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2009, under the title: Danton: the gentle giant of terror.  Read More >>

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