Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Memory of Trees: A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm

Memory of Trees: A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm...

Author: Gayla Marty
ISBN: 9780816666898
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Memory of Trees is a multigenerational story of Gayla Martys family farm near Rush City, Minnesota. Cleared from...  Read More >>

Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons

Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil...

Author: John Gary Maxwell
ISBN: 9780870623882
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Following distinguished Civil War service that took one of his legs and rendered an arm useless, General George...  Read More >>

The 57 Club: My Four Decades in Florida Politics

The 57 Club: My Four Decades in Florida Politics

Author: Frederick B. Karl ,  David R. Colburn
ISBN: 9780813034638
Format: Hardback
$105.60

An autobiography of Frederick Karl that portrays a group of Florida legislators and their political friends and...  Read More >>

A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy

A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American...

Author: Donald B. Cole
ISBN: 9780807136478
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A rare, fascinating personality emerges in Donald B. Cole's biography of Amos Kendall (1789-1869), the reputed intellectual...  Read More >>

Season of Suffering: Coming of Age in Occupied France, 1940-1945

Season of Suffering: Coming of Age in Occupied France,...

Author: Nicole H. Taflinger
ISBN: 9780874223057
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"Born in 1927, Nicole Braux's earliest recollections occur in the French city of Nancy, where her father owned and...  Read More >>

Joseph Vallence Bevan: Georgia's First Official Historian

Joseph Vallence Bevan: Georgia's First Official Historian...

Author: E Merton Coulter
ISBN: 9780820335315
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Published in 1964, this biography of Joseph Vallence Bevan tells the story of Georgia’s first official historian....  Read More >>

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Author: University Joseph J Ellis (Mount Holyoke College) ,  Susan O'Malley
ISBN: 9781441717566
Format: Audio
$79.07

Ellis presents a nuanced and ambiguous portrait of a president who combined great depth with great shallowness,...  Read More >>

The Wildmons of Mississippi: A Story of Christian Dissent: The Red Clay Hills of Tippah County

The Wildmons of Mississippi: A Story of Christian Dissent:...

Author: Allen Wildmon
ISBN: 9781432751173
Format: Hardback
$65.87

THE WILDMONS OF MISSISSIPPI: A STORY OF CHRISTIAN DISSENT This autobiography tells the story of the Wildmon family...  Read More >>

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Author: Michael F. Holt ,  Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
ISBN: 9780805087192
Format: Hardback
$35.00

Holt, a leading historian of 19th-century partisan politics, paints a portrait of the genial but troubled New Englander...  Read More >>

George Clinton: Master Builder of the Empire State

George Clinton: Master Builder of the Empire State

Author: John K. Lee ,  Mr James B Bell
ISBN: 9780815681533
Format: Hardback
$52.67

George Clinton, born in July 1739 on his family’s farm in Ulster County, New York, had a life spanning the final...  Read More >>

The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009

The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last...

Author: Richard Van Emden ,  Harry Patch
ISBN: 9781608192250
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Harry Patch was the last surviving British soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, one of...  Read More >>

The Life of Glückel of Hameln: A Memoir

The Life of Glückel of Hameln: A Memoir

Author: Beth-Zion Abrahams ,  Beth-Zion Abrahams
ISBN: 9780827609143
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Gluumlckel's aim, was to while away the long and melancholy nights that tormented her after her husband's death,...  Read More >>

Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945

Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945

Author: Sir Max Hastings
ISBN: 9780307268396
Format: Hardback
$92.40

With unparalleled insight, Hastings presents a vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill, bringing to life...  Read More >>

Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack

Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North...

Author: Robert Egan ,  Kurt Pitzer
ISBN: 9780312571306
Format: Hardback
$68.61

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How Private George W. Peck Single-handedly Won The Civil War

How Private George W. Peck Single-handedly Won The Civil...

Author: George W Peck
ISBN: 9781935585268
Format: Paperback
$24.15

A humorous book about the Civil War? Most people would contend that there was very little about the Civil War that...  Read More >>

Jesus: The Story of My life on Earth

Jesus: The Story of My life on Earth

Author: The Sterling Book Company
ISBN: 9781451516746
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Jesus tells the story of his life as a human.  Read More >>

Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story

Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story

Author: Marilyn June Coffey
ISBN: 9780962631726
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Schatten Der Zeit

Schatten Der Zeit

Author: Manfred Krumeich
ISBN: 9783839146583
Format: Paperback
$55.18

Heute, 46 Jahre nach meines Vaters Tod (Ernst Krumeich, 1905 - 1964), weiss ich, dass ich ihm ahnlicher bin, als...  Read More >>

A Man Named Daniel: The Remarkable Life of Daniel Cone

A Man Named Daniel: The Remarkable Life of Daniel Cone...

Author: Joseph Cone
ISBN: 9781450552370
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Daniel Cone's descendants can be grateful that this Scottish prisoner of the English Civil War became a servant...  Read More >>

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade...

Author: Douglas Brinkley ,  Dennis Holland
ISBN: 9781441853240
Format: Audio
$105.57

Award-winning historian Brinkley examines the life and achievements of America's Naturalist President. The author...  Read More >>

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America: Library Edition

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade...

Author: Douglas Brinkley ,  Dennis Holland
ISBN: 9781441853257
Format: Audio
$263.92

Award-winning historian Brinkley examines the life and achievements of America's Naturalist President. The author...  Read More >>

My Three Years in America (Dodo Press)

My Three Years in America (Dodo Press)

Author: Count Bernstorff
ISBN: 9781409992486
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Johann Heinrich Graf von Bernstorff (1862-1939) was a German politician and the ambassador to the United States...  Read More >>

Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945

Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945

Author: Sir Max Hastings
ISBN: 9780307712905
Format: Downloadable audio file
$250.80

A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime, Winston's War captures the full range of Churchill's...  Read More >>

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