Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Author: James Weldon Johnson
ISBN: 9781406534917
Format: Paperback
$15.50

A compellingly powerful novel about racial relations that is as relevant now as it was one hundred years ago.  Read More >>

My Journey to Albert Schweitzer: Across North, Central and South America, to Africa by Bicycle and the Return to Europe

My Journey to Albert Schweitzer: Across North, Central...

Author: Siegfried Neukirch ,  Lawrence N. Claus
ISBN: 9781425126476
Format: Paperback
$81.05

The autobiographical adventures of a young German, inspired by Albert Schweitzer's philosophy, who bicycled throughout...  Read More >>

Life in the Welsh Guards 1939-46

Life in the Welsh Guards 1939-46

Author: Sydney Pritchard
ISBN: 9780862439859
Format: Paperback
$36.83

The reminiscences of a soldier who fought with the Welsh Guards during the Second World War. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru...  Read More >>

Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency

Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency

Author: Nigel Hamilton ,  James Adams (University of Southern California USA)
ISBN: 9781433204951
Format: Audio
$79.07

The bestselling, award-winning biographer brings us an insightful, wonderfully readable, and much-anticipated history...  Read More >>

Spectator in Hell

Spectator in Hell

Author: Colin Rushton
ISBN: 9786610972654
Format: Electronic book text
$99.21

A British soldier's extraordinary story of his time as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz.  Read More >>

Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story

Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story

Author: Ann Kirschner
ISBN: 9781416541707
Format: Paperback
$39.60

For nearly 50 years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: she survived five years in Nazi work camps. In 1991, Sala showed...  Read More >>

Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister

Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister...

Author: Christopher Hibbert
ISBN: 9781403978967
Format: Paperback
$44.75

In this masterly biography Hibbert reveals the personal life of one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century...  Read More >>

Charlemagne: A Biography

Charlemagne: A Biography

Author: Derek Wilson
ISBN: 9780307274809
Format: Paperback
$42.24

An incisive and absorbing biography of the legendary emperor who bridged ancient and modern Europe and singlehandedly...  Read More >>

George IV: The Rebel Who Would Be King

George IV: The Rebel Who Would Be King

Author: Christopher Hibbert ,  Amanda Foreman
ISBN: 9781403983794
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"Hibbert delivers a superbly detailed picture of the life and times of George IV including his exorbitant spending...  Read More >>

Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life

Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life

Author: Beverly Lowry
ISBN: 9780385502917
Format: Hardback
$68.64

Lowry goes beyond the familiar tales to create a portrait of Tubman in lively imagined vignettes. Integrating extensive...  Read More >>

The Education of Henry Adams Lib/E

The Education of Henry Adams Lib/E

Author: Henry Adams ,  David Colacci
ISBN: 9780792748861
Format: Audio
$158.27

A man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote...  Read More >>

Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency

Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency

Author: Nigel Hamilton ,  James Adams (University of Southern California USA)
ISBN: 9781433204920
Format: Audio
$261.36

The best-selling, award-winning biographers insightful, balanced, engaging, and much anticipated history of Clintons...  Read More >>

Conflict of Loyalty

Conflict of Loyalty

Author: Sir Geoffrey Howe
ISBN: 9781842751961
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Tells life story of Geoffrey Howe, one of the most important figures in British politics in the late 20th century....  Read More >>

Memoirs of My Life and Writings (Dodo Press)

Memoirs of My Life and Writings (Dodo Press)

Author: Edward Gibbon
ISBN: 9781406528312
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Autobiography of the English historian and Member of Parliament whose most important work, The History of the Decline...  Read More >>

Putin: Russia's Choice

Putin: Russia's Choice

Author: Richard Sakwa (University of Kent, Canterbury)
ISBN: 9786611062644
Format: Electronic book text
$897.60

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Historia Viva

Historia Viva

Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton ,  Anna Silvetti
ISBN: 9781933499154
Format: Audio
$65.87

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John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

Author: Jonathan Aitken ,  Philip Yancey
ISBN: 9781581348484
Format: Hardback
$58.05

A fascinating, colorful, and historically significant portraitof slave-trader-turned-Christ-follower John Newton....  Read More >>

Edmundo

Edmundo

Author: Robert Huddleston
ISBN: 9781602640009
Format: Paperback
$39.47

This is a biography of Edmundo Lassalle, a Mexican who came to the U.S. in 1935 to attend Columbia University, married...  Read More >>

After Diana: William, Harry, Charles, and the Royal House of Windsor

After Diana: William, Harry, Charles, and the Royal...

Author: Christopher Andersen
ISBN: 9781401303600
Format: Hardback
$68.51

The author of the #1 bestselling The Day Diana Died draws on important sources--many talking here for the first...  Read More >>

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Written by Himself (Dodo Press)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,...

Author: Olaudah Equiano
ISBN: 9781406524925
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Autobiographical work from the eighteenth century merchant seaman. His was the first influential slave autobiography....  Read More >>

Entertaining Eric: A Wartime Love Story

Entertaining Eric: A Wartime Love Story

Author: Maureen Wells
ISBN: 9780091912529
Format: Paperback
$19.99

In 1941, as the Second World War raged on, 20-year-old Maureen Bolster began writing to her boyfriend Eric Wells....  Read More >>

Squaddie: A Soldier's Story

Squaddie: A Soldier's Story

Author: Steven McLaughlin
ISBN: 9781845962425
Format: Paperback
$50.03

From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland,...  Read More >>

My Xxth Century: Rockets, Bombs and Christianity

My Xxth Century: Rockets, Bombs and Christianity

Author: Tamara Miller
ISBN: 9780974846347
Format: Paperback
$55.41

As a young woman, Tamara Miller survived near starvation in western Kiev and forced labor in Nazi Germany only to...  Read More >>

Atarque: Now All Is Silent...

Atarque: Now All Is Silent...

Author: Pauline Chavez Bent
ISBN: 9781890689162
Format: Paperback
$50.03

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