Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23598 books were found.

From Stalingrad to Pillau: A Red Army Artillery Officer Remembers the Great Patriotic War

From Stalingrad to Pillau: A Red Army Artillery Officer...

Author: Isaak Kobylyanskiy ,  Stuart Britton
ISBN: 9780700615667
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Stalingrad's outskirts provided Isaak Kobylyanskiy, a 19-year-old Jew from Ukraine, with his first exposure to combat...  Read More >>

For Love of Politics: Inside the Clinton White House

For Love of Politics: Inside the Clinton White House...

Author: Sally Bedell Smith
ISBN: 9780812973457
Format: Paperback
$42.24

During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public...  Read More >>

Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq

Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through...

Author: Tony Lagouranis ,  Allen Mikaelian
ISBN: 9780451223159
Format: Paperback
$42.24

A U.S. Army interrogator breaks the silence about prisoner abuse in places like Abu Ghraib and Fallujah in this...  Read More >>

Infidel

Infidel

Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali ,  Christopher Hitchens
ISBN: 9780743289696
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of ""The Caged Virgin,"" Ali tells...  Read More >>

Jim Garrison: His Life And Times, The Early Years

Jim Garrison: His Life And Times, The Early Years

Author: Joan Mellen
ISBN: 9780977465729
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Mellen profiles a former Louisiana district attorney, covering his World War II experiences at the Dachau Concentration...  Read More >>

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century...

Author: Steve Coll
ISBN: 9781594201646
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars presents the story of the Bin...  Read More >>

My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House

My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House

Author: Lillian Rogers Parks ,  Frances Spatz Leighton
ISBN: 9780923891961
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Originally published in 1961 by Fleet Pub.  Read More >>

Barack Obama: What He Believes in - From His Own Works

Barack Obama: What He Believes in - From His Own Works...

Author: [Then] President-Ele Barack Obama
ISBN: 9781604501179
Format: Paperback
$39.57

We are all familiar with the phenomenon known as Barack Obama. However, many of us don't know what he has worked...  Read More >>

Don Benito Wilson: From Mountain Man to Mayor, Los Angeles, 1841 to 1878

Don Benito Wilson: From Mountain Man to Mayor, Los Angeles,...

Author: Nat B Read
ISBN: 9781883318833
Format: Hardback
$66.00

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The Avenging Fury of the Plains: John Liver Eating Johnston

The Avenging Fury of the Plains: John Liver Eating Johnston...

Author: Dr Dennis J McLelland ,  Dr Dennis J McLelland
ISBN: 9780741445278
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The true life of bizarre mountain man John Liver-Eating Johnston has finally been exposed! Did he eat human livers?...  Read More >>

Will To Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism

Will To Freedom: A Perilous Journey Through Fascism...

Author: Egon Balas
ISBN: 9780815609308
Format: Paperback
$65.87

As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, the author charts...  Read More >>

Napoleon: The Path to Power

Napoleon: The Path to Power

Author: Dr Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle Australia)
ISBN: 9780300137545
Format: Hardback
$92.40

This authoritative biography focuses on the evolution of Napoleon as a leader and debunks many of the myths that...  Read More >>

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Author: Karl Marx
ISBN: 9781434463753
Format: Hardback
$79.17

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U. S. Dragoon: Experiences in the Mexican War 1846-48 and on the South Western Frontier

U. S. Dragoon: Experiences in the Mexican War 1846-48...

Author: Samuel E Chamberlain
ISBN: 9781846774294
Format: Paperback
$31.05

From soldier to wagon master to scalp hunter Chamberlain left Boston as a mere youth and joined the United States...  Read More >>

The Earl of Louisiana

The Earl of Louisiana

Author: A. J. Liebling ,  Jonathan Yardley
ISBN: 9780807133439
Format: Paperback
$50.03

In the summer of 1959, A.J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of...  Read More >>

Ompteda of the King's German Legion: A Hanoverian Officer on Campaign Against Napoleon

Ompteda of the King's German Legion: A Hanoverian Officer...

Author: Christian Von Ompteda
ISBN: 9781846774171
Format: Paperback
$31.05

A date with destiny on the bloody fields of Waterloo At the time of the Revolutionary Wars the position of Hanover...  Read More >>

Christopher Columbus (Dodo Press)

Christopher Columbus (Dodo Press)

Author: Mildred Stapley Byne
ISBN: 9781409900177
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Spain, as every one knows, was the country behind the discovery of America. Few people know, however, what an important...  Read More >>

Eminent Victorians (Dodo Press)

Eminent Victorians (Dodo Press)

Author: Lytton Strachey
ISBN: 9781406575606
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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U. S. Dragoon: Experiences in the Mexican War 1846-48 and on the South Western Frontier

U. S. Dragoon: Experiences in the Mexican War 1846-48...

Author: Samuel E Chamberlain
ISBN: 9781846774300
Format: Hardback
$51.75

From soldier to wagon master to scalp hunter Chamberlain left Boston as a mere youth and joined the United States...  Read More >>

Will Rogers Says . . .

Will Rogers Says . . .

Author: Reba Collins ,  R. Collins
ISBN: 9781934397039
Format: Hardback
$34.19

Humor and horse sense from the man who inspired a nation  Read More >>

Legacies of Camelot: Stewart and Lee Udall, American Culture, and the Arts

Legacies of Camelot: Stewart and Lee Udall, American...

Author: L. Boyd Finch ,  Tom Udall
ISBN: 9780806138794
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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Ompteda of the King's German Legion: A Hanoverian Officer on Campaign Against Napoleon

Ompteda of the King's German Legion: A Hanoverian Officer...

Author: Christian Von Ompteda
ISBN: 9781846774188
Format: Hardback
$81.81

A date with destiny on the bloody fields of Waterloo At the time of the Revolutionary Wars the position of Hanover...  Read More >>

Pure Goldwater

Pure Goldwater

Author: John W Dean ,  Barry M Goldwater, Jr.
ISBN: 9786611737474
Format: Electronic book text
$52.75

New York Times -bestselling author John Dean and the son of conservative icon Barry Goldwater team together to show...  Read More >>

Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters

Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters

Author: Grace King
ISBN: 9781589800656
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Facsimile reprint of 1932 edition published by Macmillan.  Read More >>

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance...

Author: Barack Obama
ISBN: 9781921351433
Format: Paperback
$24.99

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother...  Read More >>

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