Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23598 books were found.

1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American Forced to Fight for Saddam Against the Country He Loves

1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American...

Author: Shant Kenderian ,  Jason Collins
ISBN: 9780786169542
Format: Audio
$79.07

Young Shant Kendarians visit to Baghdad in 1980 was supposed to be short. But when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and...  Read More >>

1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American Forced to Fight for Saddam Against the Country He Loves

1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American...

Author: Shant Kenderian ,  Jason Collins
ISBN: 9780786157808
Format: Audio
$79.07

Shant Kendarians visit to Baghdad in 1980 at age seventeen was supposed to be a short onejust enough tie to make...  Read More >>

1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American Forced to Fight for Saddam Against the Country He Loves

1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American...

Author: Shant Kenderian ,  Jason Collins
ISBN: 9780786167739
Format: Audio
$145.20

Young Shant Kendarians visit to Baghdad in 1980 was supposed to be short. But when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and...  Read More >>

Berry Benson's Civil War Book: Memoirs of a Confederate Scout and Sharpshooter

Berry Benson's Civil War Book: Memoirs of a Confederate...

Author: Berry Greenwood Benson ,  Susan Williams Benson
ISBN: 9780820329437
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Confederate scout and sharpshooter Berry Greenwood Benson witnessed the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, retreated...  Read More >>

A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler

A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's...

Author: Jason Roberts
ISBN: 9780007161263
Format: Paperback
$39.57

In an era when the blind were routinely warehoused in asylums, James Holman was studying medicine, fighting the...  Read More >>

The Diana Chronicles

The Diana Chronicles

Author: Tina Brown ,  Rosalyn Landor
ISBN: 9781415938928
Format: Downloadable audio file
$250.80

Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different...

Author: Gordon S. Wood
ISBN: 9780143112082
Format: Paperback
$42.24

"From ""the most respected among all scholars of the colonial and Revolutionary periods""--""Washington Post World,""...  Read More >>

Silvered Wings: the Memoirs of Air Vice-marshall Sir John Severne

Silvered Wings: the Memoirs of Air Vice-marshall Sir...

Author: John Severne
ISBN: 9781844155590
Format: Hardback
$57.99

John Severne joined the RAF in 1944 and gained his wings two months after WW2 ended. This book captures his passion...  Read More >>

Forty Years a Legislator

Forty Years a Legislator

Author: Elmer Thomas ,  Richard Lowitt
ISBN: 9780806138091
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Elmer Thomas (1876-1965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state's first legislature and in Congress. This...  Read More >>

Army Wives

Army Wives

Author: Tanya Biank ,  Nichole Argyres
ISBN: 9780312333515
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Four Fort Bragg Army wives face hardship, tragedy, betrayal, and their own demons as they try to fulfill the antiquated...  Read More >>

Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power

Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power

Author: Ross King
ISBN: 9780060817176
Format: Hardback
$57.95

In this latest addition to the Eminent Lives series, the ""New York Times"" bestselling author of ""Brunelleschis...  Read More >>

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

Author: Slavomir Rawicz
ISBN: 9781845296445
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War II

Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War...

Author: Alvin Kernan
ISBN: 9780300123159
Format: Paperback
$39.60

A memoir of life aboard aircraft carriers during World War II. Here, Alvin Kernan combines vivid recollections of...  Read More >>

A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953

A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean...

Author: No Kum-Sok ,  J. Roger Osterholm
ISBN: 9780786431069
Format: Paperback
$92.40

On September 21, 1953, US airmen at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, Korea, were startled to see landing a MiG-15, the...  Read More >>

Edward VII: The Last Victorian King

Edward VII: The Last Victorian King

Author: Christopher Hibbert ,  Hugh Thomas
ISBN: 9786611737313
Format: Electronic book text
$52.75

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Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green:: A Year in the Desert with Team America

Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green:: A Year in the Desert...

Author: Johnny Rico
ISBN: 9780891418979
Format: Hardback
$26.99

‘Breathtakingly, brutally and hilariously honest. This is the finest book about youth and war I've ever read.  Read More >>

Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy

Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy

Author: Ilario Pantano ,  Malcolm McConnell
ISBN: 9781416524274
Format: Paperback
$65.97

In his own forceful words, the memoir of Ilario Pantano, the American marine exonerated of murdering two Iraqi insurgents,...  Read More >>

Infidel

Infidel

Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali ,  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
ISBN: 9781428156586
Format: Audio
$105.57

The astonishing and bestselling life story of the renowned campaigner for religious tolerance and women's rights,...  Read More >>

A Mormom in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney

A Mormom in the White House?: 10 Things Every American...

Author: Hugh Hewitt ,  Lloyd James
ISBN: 9780786168194
Format: Audio
$190.08

Mitt Romney is a successful businessman and a fiscal and social conservative who won the governorship in one of...  Read More >>

Nixon And Kissinger: Partners in Power Unabridged 8/480

Nixon And Kissinger: Partners in Power Unabridged 8/480...

Author: Robert Dallek ,  Eric Conger
ISBN: 9780061256424
Format: Audio
$54.99

In this epic joint biography, a distinguished historian chronicles the lives and times of two unlikely leaders whose...  Read More >>

The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. (Dodo Press)

The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian...

Author: Edward S Ellis
ISBN: 9781406524772
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

"""Titanic"" Survivor": The Memoirs of Violet Jessop Stewardess

"""Titanic"" Survivor": The Memoirs of Violet Jessop...

Author: Violet Jessop
ISBN: 9780750946636
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Offers an eyewitness account of the most written about disaster of the twentieth century. This work gives us a glimpse...  Read More >>

Praised Be Our Lords: A Political Education

Praised Be Our Lords: A Political Education

Author: Régis Debray ,  John Howe
ISBN: 9781844671403
Format: Paperback
$56.00

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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton...

Author: Carl Bernstein ,  Dick Rodstein
ISBN: 9780739358061
Format: Audio
$84.35

Reveals the trajectory of Hillary Clinton's life and career. This book provides an account of the complex human...  Read More >>

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