Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23603 books were found.

Recon Trooper: A Memoir of Combat with the 14th Armored Division in Europe, 1944-1945

Recon Trooper: A Memoir of Combat with the 14th Armored...

Author: Hugh Warren West
ISBN: 9781282616110
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

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Reading with Lincoln

Reading with Lincoln

Author: Robert Bray (Middle Tennessee State University)
ISBN: 9781280697357
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

Through extensive reading and reflection, Abraham Lincoln fashioned a mind as powerfully intellectual and superlatively...  Read More >>

How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom

How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries...

Author: Diana C Gill ,  D C Gill
ISBN: 9781282570085
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

How We Are Changed by War examines our sense of ourselves through the medium of diaries and wartime correspondence,...  Read More >>

Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan

Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan...

Author: Professor George R Packard
ISBN: 9781282872134
Format: Electronic book text
$68.61

In 1961, President Kennedy named Edwin O. Reischauer the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Already deeply intimate with...  Read More >>

Starting Over

Starting Over

Author: Edward A Lynch
ISBN: 9781283616072
Format: Electronic book text
$100.29

This book traces the remarkable political career of former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen, which...  Read More >>

Life and Death in the Central Highlands: An American Sergeant in the Vietnam War, 1968-1970

Life and Death in the Central Highlands: An American...

Author: James T Gillam
ISBN: 9781283109031
Format: Electronic book text
$73.79

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Citizen Rauh

Citizen Rauh

Author: Michael E Parrish
ISBN: 9781283519441
Format: Undefined
$79.07

Citizen Rauh tells the story of American lawyer Joseph L. Rauh Jr., who kept alive the ideals of New Deal liberalism...  Read More >>

Captain Departs

Captain Departs

Author: Thomas M Pitkin
ISBN: 9781280698491
Format: Electronic book text
$47.39

Early in 1885 Americans learned that General Grant was writing his Memoirs in a desperate race for time against...  Read More >>

Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Beyond: A Mud Marine's Memoir of the Pacific Island War

Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Beyond: A Mud Marine's Memoir...

Author: William W Rogal
ISBN: 9781282663763
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

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North Star

North Star

Author: Peter Camejo
ISBN: 9781282647701
Format: Electronic book text
$47.52

Green Party leader and prominent social justice activist tells the story of his life of struggle.  Read More >>

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Author: David Stricklin
ISBN: 9781282966925
Format: Electronic book text
$68.61

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Great Virginia Triumvirate

Great Virginia Triumvirate

Author: John P Kaminski
ISBN: 9781280490736
Format: Electronic book text
$110.70

As the largest, oldest, and wealthiest of the original thirteen colonies, Virginia played a central role in the...  Read More >>

Russian Emigres in the Intellectual and Literary Life of Interwar France: A Bibliographical Essay

Russian Emigres in the Intellectual and Literary Life...

Author: Professor Leonid Livak
ISBN: 9781283700627
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

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Archimedes and the Roman Imagination

Archimedes and the Roman Imagination

Author: Mary Jaeger
ISBN: 9781282593770
Format: Undefined
$76.43

The great mathematician Archimedes, a Sicilian Greek whose machines defended Syracuse against the Romans during...  Read More >>

Lenin's Last Struggle

Lenin's Last Struggle

Author: Moshe Lewin (University of Philadelphia)
ISBN: 9781282604940
Format: Undefined
$71.15

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Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City

Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City

Author: Wendell E Pritchett
ISBN: 9781282537910
Format: Undefined
$118.80

From his role as Franklin Roosevelt s negro advisor to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary...  Read More >>

Man Who Sold the World, The: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America

Man Who Sold the World, The: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal...

Author: William Kleinknecht
ISBN: 9781282746855
Format: Electronic book text
$44.75

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Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII

Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII...

Author: Hugh Cortazzi
ISBN: 9781283470667
Format: Electronic book text
$245.52

This volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities,...  Read More >>

Running Wire at the Front Lines: Memoir of a Radio and Telephone Man in World War II

Running Wire at the Front Lines: Memoir of a Radio and...

Author: Louis J Lauria
ISBN: 9781282942981
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

This compelling memoir tracks the war experiences of a radio wireman in the 11th Infantry Regiment of the Fifth...  Read More >>

Remarkable Engineers

Remarkable Engineers

Author: Professor Ioan James (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781282536517
Format: Undefined
$514.80

Engineering transformed the world completely between the 17th and 21st centuries. Remarkable Engineers tells the...  Read More >>

Seal of Honor

Seal of Honor

Author: Gary Williams (University of Tasmania, University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781282990906
Format: Electronic book text
$52.67

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Constantine and the Christian Empire

Constantine and the Christian Empire

Author: Charles M Odahl
ISBN: 9781282659698
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

This biographical narrative is a detailed portrayal of the life and career of the first Christian emperor Constantine...  Read More >>

California on the Breadlines

California on the Breadlines

Author: Jan Goggans
ISBN: 9781282697713
Format: Electronic book text
$110.88

California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression s most famous...  Read More >>

Defining Moments: Stories of Character, Courage and Leadership

Defining Moments: Stories of Character, Courage and...

Author: Gordon Zacks
ISBN: 9781283540759
Format: Electronic book text
$42.11

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