Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23598 books were found.

Have Clearance Will Travel

Have Clearance Will Travel

Author: Dr Bob Porter
ISBN: 9780595465149
Format: Paperback
$31.55

CIA, NASA, and Earth Satellite Corporation all have one thing in common. They merged and developed civilian technology...  Read More >>

Mon Passe: President De La Premiere Republique De Georgie, 1918-1921

Mon Passe: President De La Premiere Republique De Georgie,...

Author: Noe Jordania
ISBN: 9781438223124
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Voici en traduction francaise les memoires tant attendues de Noe Jordania, premier president de Georgie, qui fut...  Read More >>

Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

Author: David Talbot
ISBN: 9780743269193
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Acclaimed journalist Talbot tells in a riveting, well-researched narrative just how explosively alienated the Kennedy...  Read More >>

Through Our Eyes

Through Our Eyes

Author: Jesse Odom
ISBN: 9781933523149
Format: Paperback
$39.47

A raw, unfiltered view of the early days of the Iraq invasion--and the haunting aftermath. In a story taken from...  Read More >>

Think for Yourself

Think for Yourself

Author: Riko Metzroth
ISBN: 9780981495668
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Metzroth recounts his life as a young German during the tumultuous times of World War II and the following years....  Read More >>

Alfonso Lopez Michelsen: Su Vida, su Epoca

Alfonso Lopez Michelsen: Su Vida, su Epoca

Author: Stephen J Randall ,  Paulina Gomez
ISBN: 9789588293288
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The first complete biography of Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, one of the main figures in the political and intellectual...  Read More >>

My Diary North And South (1863)

My Diary North And South (1863)

Author: Sir William Howard Russell
ISBN: 9780548953297
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary Volume II

New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary Volume II

Author: Don Bullis
ISBN: 9781890689179
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The second text of a multi-volume encyclopedia on the colorful array of characters who have made New Mexico what...  Read More >>

Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust

Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust

Author: Nancy Wright Beasley
ISBN: 9781928662945
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The book depicts how 13 members of five Jewish families survived the Holocaust through their own ingenuity and the...  Read More >>

Railway Man: A Pow's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness

Railway Man: A Pow's Searing Account of War, Brutality...

Author: Eric Lomax
ISBN: 9780393334982
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Here is a remarkable true story of forgiveness--a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance,...  Read More >>

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary...

Author: Lucy Moore
ISBN: 9780060825270
Format: Paperback
$44.75

From one of the most exciting young historians at work today, the story of the French Revolution told through the...  Read More >>

The Story of My Life and Work: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington (1901)

The Story of My Life and Work: An Autobiography by Booker...

Author: Booker T Washington ,  J L M Curry
ISBN: 9780548995389
Format: Hardback
$139.79

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an African American political leader, educator and author. He was one...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Unmutilated and Correct Version (1909)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The Unmutilated...

Author: Benjamin Franklin ,  Dr John Bigelow
ISBN: 9780548931240
Format: Hardback
$121.31

Edited with introduction and notes by Charles W Eliot and with Appendix including 'The Electrical Kite'  Read More >>

Law and Order, Ltd.: The Rousing Life of Elfego Baca of New Mexico

Law and Order, Ltd.: The Rousing Life of Elfego Baca...

Author: Kyle Samuel Crichton
ISBN: 9780865346680
Format: Paperback
$71.15

"In 1884 Elfego Baca earned top ranking as a gunfighter, ducking some 4,000 bullets fired by 80 cowboys aiming to...  Read More >>

The Plot Against Pepys

The Plot Against Pepys

Author: James D Long ,  Ben Long
ISBN: 9781590200698
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Part history, part bone-rattling suspense, this work tells the forgotten story of two of the most dangerous years...  Read More >>

Golf 2 Tango 4: The Story of an American GI

Golf 2 Tango 4: The Story of an American GI

Author: Dale H. Petersen
ISBN: 9780975908273
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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My Life

My Life

Author: Fidel Castro ,  Ignacio Ramonet
ISBN: 9780141026268
Format: Paperback
$42.99

Castro is the only world leader to have outlasted nine US presidents, has survived over 600 assassination attempts...  Read More >>

Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner

Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner

Author: John F. Sullivan
ISBN: 9781597970464
Format: Paperback
$50.03

John F. Sullivan was a polygraph examiner with the CIA for thirty-one years, during which time he conducted more...  Read More >>

Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot, White House Aide, and Personal Confidant

Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride as Air Force...

Author: James U. Cross ,  Denise Gamino
ISBN: 9780292747777
Format: Paperback
$39.95

LBJ’s personal pilot—one of the few to fly Air Force One and simultaneously hold a full-time job in the White House—offers...  Read More >>

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

Author: Ted Sorensen
ISBN: 9780060798710
Format: Hardback
$73.89

In January 1953, the newly-elected Senator John F Kennedy hired Theodore Sorensen as his legislative assistant....  Read More >>

The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman

The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese...

Author: Ken Bugul ,  Jeanne Garane
ISBN: 9780813927374
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Abandoned by her mother and sent to live with relatives in Dakar, the author tells of being educated in the French...  Read More >>

John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative

John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative

Author: Crandall Shifflett ,  Crandall Shifflett
ISBN: 9780807133026
Format: Paperback
$44.75

An unprecedented window into the life of a Virginia bondsman, John Washington's Civil War communicates with real...  Read More >>

The Ghosts of Thua Thien: An American Soldier's Memoir of Vietnam

The Ghosts of Thua Thien: An American Soldier's Memoir...

Author: John A. Nesser
ISBN: 9780786433247
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Drafted in October 1968, John A Nesser left behind his wife and young son to fight in the controversial Vietnam...  Read More >>

Clodia: A Sourcebook

Clodia: A Sourcebook

Author: Julia Dyson Hejduk
ISBN: 9780806139074
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A striking portrait of one of the most fascinating women in Roman history  Read More >>

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