Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23603 books were found.

Young Stalin

Young Stalin

Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore ,  James Adams (University of Southern California USA)
ISBN: 9781441709196
Format: Mixed media product
$184.77

Here is Stalin the supreme dictator in the making, a darkly turbulent, charismatic young man fancying himself a...  Read More >>

Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East

Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among...

Author: Jared Cohen ,  Jason Collins
ISBN: 9781441709240
Format: Mixed media product
$158.37

Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face-to-face, a young American tours hostile lands...  Read More >>

Xiao Tuan Yuan

Xiao Tuan Yuan

Author: Ailing Zhang
ISBN: 9789573325208
Format: Paperback
$62.30

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Through Three Victorian Campaigns: Experiences of a Regimental Surgeon During the Gwalior War, Campaigns in West Africa & the Indian Mutiny

Through Three Victorian Campaigns: Experiences of a...

Author: Charles Alexander Gordon
ISBN: 9781846777684
Format: Hardback
$73.89

Through the Queen Empress's Wars Gordon had a long military career. Indeed he became Surgeon General and this book...  Read More >>

A Leicestershire Soldier in the Second Sikh War: Recollections of a Corporal of the 32nd Regiment of Foot in India 1848-49

A Leicestershire Soldier in the Second Sikh War: Recollections...

Author: Professor and President John Ryder (State University of New York)
ISBN: 9781846777622
Format: Hardback
$73.89

The final defeat of the Sikhs of the Punjab This book, originally humbly and ambiguously titled 'Four Year's Service...  Read More >>

My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians: the Ordeal of a Pioneer Woman Crossing the Western Plains in 1864

My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians: the Ordeal of...

Author: Fanny Kelly
ISBN: 9781846777561
Format: Hardback
$73.89

An amazing account of the survival of an American lady among hostile Indians This is a remarkable story of one woman's...  Read More >>

Friends and Foes in the Transkei: a Victorian Lady's Experience of Southern Africa During the 1870s

Friends and Foes in the Transkei: a Victorian Lady's...

Author: Helen M Prichard
ISBN: 9781846777585
Format: Hardback
$71.25

Pioneer days in South Africa Helen Prichard arrived in South Africa with her family in 1876. The colonisation of...  Read More >>

The Candidate

The Candidate

Author: Susan O'Keeffe
ISBN: 9781856079907
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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El Hombre, Un Lobo Para El Hombre

Author: Janusz Bardach ,  Kathleen Gleeson
ISBN: 9788492663101
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Between the years1939 and 1940, after Eastern Europe was divided between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the...  Read More >>

The Twelve Month's Volunteer: the Recollections of a Member of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry During the Mexican War-Volume 1 1846

The Twelve Month's Volunteer: the Recollections of a...

Author: George C Furber
ISBN: 9781846777646
Format: Hardback
$84.45

A classic account of the Mexican War by an American horse soldier The author of this book-now rare and hard to find...  Read More >>

Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War

Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech...

Author: Romesh Ratnesar ,  Wes Bleed
ISBN: 9781598596564
Format: Audio
$73.89

This audio re-creates the charged atmosphere surrounding Reagan's visit to Berlin and explores the speech's role...  Read More >>

Life in the Far West: the experiences of a British Officer in America and Mexico During the 1840s

Life in the Far West: the experiences of a British Officer...

Author: George F Ruxton
ISBN: 9781846777929
Format: Hardback
$76.53

The first of two classic works of the untamed frontier The words of George Frederick Ruxton have come to epitomise...  Read More >>

Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach

Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family...

Author: Meryl Gordon
ISBN: 9780547247984
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Gordon's powerful, poignant saga goes behind the gates of a powerful American dynasty--the Astors--to tell of three...  Read More >>

Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions-Volume 1

Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions-Volume...

Author: Alvin K Benson
ISBN: 9781587655234
Format: Hardback
$260.70

The Great Lives from History series was grown to include 27 volumes of in-depth, critical essays on the men and...  Read More >>

Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions-Volume 4

Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions-Volume...

Author: Alvin K Benson
ISBN: 9781587655265
Format: Hardback
$260.70

The Great Lives from History series was grown to include 27 volumes of in-depth, critical essays on the men and...  Read More >>

Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions-Volume 2

Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions-Volume...

Author: Alvin K Benson
ISBN: 9781587655241
Format: Hardback
$260.70

The Great Lives from History series was grown to include 27 volumes of in-depth, critical essays on the men and...  Read More >>

Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions-Volume 3

Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions-Volume...

Author: Alvin K Benson
ISBN: 9781587655258
Format: Hardback
$260.70

The Great Lives from History series was grown to include 27 volumes of in-depth, critical essays on the men and...  Read More >>

James M. Corns: The Ancestry and Life of a Warrior

James M. Corns: The Ancestry and Life of a Warrior

Author: Robert H Nelson (University of Maryland) ,  Emma L Nelson
ISBN: 9781432745967
Format: Paperback
$92.27

James M. Corns, born in 1830, was descended from prominent families in Staffordshire and Gloucestershire, England....  Read More >>

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861

Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great...

Author: Harold Holzer (External Affairs the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
ISBN: 9780743289481
Format: Paperback
$42.24

An eminent Lincoln scholar examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect...  Read More >>

Kennedy

Kennedy

Author: Ted Sorensen
ISBN: 9780061967849
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Now with a new preface, Kennedy is the intimate, #1 national bestselling biography of JFK by his great advisor Ted...  Read More >>

The Journal of an Army Surgeon During the Peninsular War.

The Journal of an Army Surgeon During the Peninsular...

Author: Charles Boutflower
ISBN: 9781116486360
Format: Paperback
$60.06

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each...  Read More >>

Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution

Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a...

Author: Joel Richard Paul
ISBN: 9781594488832
Format: Undefined
$68.51

Unlikely Allies, a bold reinterpretation of the struggle for independence, is the gripping true story of how three...  Read More >>

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Author: Thomas Jefferson ,  George Haven Putnam
ISBN: 9781116114966
Format: Paperback
$65.34

Detailed account of this man's remarkable life: as governor of Virginia, years in Paris, as Washington's secretary...  Read More >>

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Author: Ulysses S Grant
ISBN: 9781449546366
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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My Experiments with Truth

My Experiments with Truth

Author: Mohandas Gandhi ,  Frederick Davidson
ISBN: 9781615730483
Format: Downloadable audio file
$98.82

Mohandas Gandhi inspired the spiritual and political souls of millions of people. His call for nonviolent resistance...  Read More >>

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