Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Letters To My Grandchildren

Letters To My Grandchildren

Author: Tony Benn
ISBN: 9780091931261
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Every generation has to fight the same battles as their ancestors had to fight, again and again, for there is no...  Read More >>

A Doctor's Diary in Damaraland (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

A Doctor's Diary in Damaraland (Illustrated Edition)...

Author: Dr H F B Walker
ISBN: 9781409979357
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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It's Not All Bad: A Lighter Look at Vietnam

It's Not All Bad: A Lighter Look at Vietnam

Author: George Elrod
ISBN: 9781607994954
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go for a helicopter ride holding on to a mountain lion? Probably...  Read More >>

The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago: A Biography of William B. Ogden

The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago: A Biography of...

Author: Jack Harpster
ISBN: 9780809329175
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Jack Harpster's The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago: A Biography of William B. Ogdenis the first biography of...  Read More >>

Jefferson and the Rights of Man

Jefferson and the Rights of Man

Author: Dumas Malone
ISBN: 9780813923628
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Jefferson and the Rights of Man In this second volume, Malone recounts the eventful middle years of Jefferson's...  Read More >>

The Sage of Monticello

The Sage of Monticello

Author: Dumas Malone
ISBN: 9780813923666
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Describing Jefferson's retirement from Washington, this volume recounts the events that formed Jefferson's final...  Read More >>

Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805

Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805

Author: Dumas Malone
ISBN: 9780813923642
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Jefferson the President; First Term, 1801-1805 Examining the first four years of Jefferson's presidency, this volume...  Read More >>

Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty

Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty

Author: Dumas Malone
ISBN: 9780813923635
Format: Paperback
$47.39

This third volume in the series deals with a fascinating and controversial period of Jeffersons life, including...  Read More >>

Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809

Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809

Author: Dumas Malone
ISBN: 9780813923659
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Jefferson the President; Second Term, 1805-1809 Covering the climax of Jefferson's forty-year career, this fifth...  Read More >>

A Memoir of the New Left: The Political Autobiography of Charles A. Haynie

A Memoir of the New Left: The Political Autobiography...

Author: Aeron Haynie ,  Timothy Miller
ISBN: 9781572336728
Format: Hardback
$92.27

“In Charles Haynie’s autobiography we get a rare look into the development of a great social movement through the...  Read More >>

So Long for Now: A World War II Memoir

So Long for Now: A World War II Memoir

Author: William M Dwyer
ISBN: 9781441544049
Format: Hardback
$79.17

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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief...

Author: James M. McPherson
ISBN: 9780143116141
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A bestselling historian of the Civil War illuminates how Lincoln worked with--and often against--his senior commanders...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Suicide

Revolutionary Suicide

Author: Huey P. Newton
ISBN: 9780143105329
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Norton in a dazzling graphic package.  Read More >>

Dai Uy Hoch: A Legend in Remote Seas

Dai Uy Hoch: A Legend in Remote Seas

Author: Lt Cmdr Wesley a Hoch U S N ,  Wesley A Hoch
ISBN: 9781615793945
Format: Paperback
$60.69

"""And so it begins, a detailed narrative laid bare . . . chicken feet and heads floating in soup, disturbing dreams...  Read More >>

Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box

Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box

Author: Madeleine Albright
ISBN: 9780060899189
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001, the first woman ever to hold the position. Here, she...  Read More >>

The Mussolini, Pius XII and Marconi Clash

The Mussolini, Pius XII and Marconi Clash

Author: Raymond J Payette
ISBN: 9780919719095
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Marconi invented a secret weapon at the beginning of World War II that could have changed the outcome of world history....  Read More >>

Faces and Places That Live In My Heart

Faces and Places That Live In My Heart

Author: Jeanette Dyess Ryan
ISBN: 9781440181245
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A collection of true stories that portray the struggles and triumphs of a poor country girl born in a log cabin...  Read More >>

Not My War

Not My War

Author: Bill Westhead
ISBN: 9780984262601
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Life had been peaceful and relatively uncomplicated for young Westhead in the 1930s, but as the end of the decade...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin
ISBN: 9781449573843
Format: Paperback
$23.63

The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, now with a new foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund...  Read More >>

Hell or High Water: My Life in and out of Politics

Hell or High Water: My Life in and out of Politics

Author: Paul Martin
ISBN: 9780771056932
Format: Paperback
$50.03

National bestseller Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating...  Read More >>

The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter

The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's...

Author: Matthew Dennison
ISBN: 9780312564971
Format: Paperback
$52.77

An evocative telling of the life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's last-born child, and of a sometimes fraught...  Read More >>

Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory

Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory...

Author: Kimberly L Craft
ISBN: 9781449513443
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This biography explores the life of the 16th-century ""Blood Countess"" of Hungary, Erzsébet Báthory. Reputed to...  Read More >>

Napoleon's Prisoner of War: Experiences of a British Officer During the Napoleonic Wars in Spain and France

Napoleon's Prisoner of War: Experiences of a British...

Author: Andrew Thomas Blayney
ISBN: 9781846777691
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Campaign, capture and the long march to liberation This substantial book, originally published in two volumes under...  Read More >>

So You're One of Our Idle Councillors?

So You're One of Our Idle Councillors?

Author: Hughie Griffiths
ISBN: 9781847486097
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist

Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's...

Author: Peter Clarke (King's College London and University of Oxford UK) ,  P F Clarke
ISBN: 9781608190232
Format: Hardback
$52.80

"The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II--and...  Read More >>

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