Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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The Private Lives of the Impressionists

The Private Lives of the Impressionists

Author: Sue Roe
ISBN: 9780060545581
Format: Hardback
$79.07

This intimate, colorful, superbly researched account of the world's most popular artists, the Impressionists, takes...  Read More >>

Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House: Memoirs of an African-American Seamstress

Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House: Memoirs...

Author: Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 9780486451220
Format: Paperback
$16.99

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Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South

Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending...

Author: David Brown
ISBN: 9780807131787
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Hinton Rowan Helper gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the...  Read More >>

Edmund Burke: Volume II: 1784-1797

Edmund Burke: Volume II: 1784-1797

Author: F P Lock
ISBN: 9786610752393
Format: Electronic book text
$627.26

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Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures

Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures

Author: Kenneth Cain ,  Heidi Postlewait
ISBN: 9781401359669
Format: Paperback
$36.83

In this startling celebration of the strength of the human spirit and the gritty power of friendship, three United...  Read More >>

Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil...

Author: Charles Bracelen Flood
ISBN: 9780061148712
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Moving and elegantly written, this study is riveting history: a gripping portrait of two men, whose friendship forged...  Read More >>

Eisenhower

Eisenhower

Author: John Wukovits ,  Brian Emerson
ISBN: 9780786163960
Format: Audio
$166.32

This new addition to Wesley Clark's Great Generals series features the principal architect of the Allied invasion...  Read More >>

Eisenhower

Eisenhower

Author: John Wukovits ,  Brian Emerson
ISBN: 9780786174584
Format: Audio
$79.07

This new addition to Wesley Clark's Great Generals series features the principal architect of the Allied invasion...  Read More >>

My Detachment: A Memoir

My Detachment: A Memoir

Author: Tracy Kidder
ISBN: 9780812976168
Format: Paperback
$36.83

"The Pulitzer Prize-winning Tracy Kidder, author of ""The Soul of a New Machine,"" writes for the first time about...  Read More >>

Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England

Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Lita-Rose Betcherman
ISBN: 9780060762896
Format: Paperback
$42.11

For fans of ""Elizabeth, Galileo's Daughter"" and ""A History of the Wife"" comes this compelling biography of two...  Read More >>

Journal Kept by Hugh Finlay: Surveyor of the Post Roads on the Continent of North America

Journal Kept by Hugh Finlay: Surveyor of the Post Roads...

Author: Hugh Finlay ,  Hugh Finlay
ISBN: 9781557094230
Format: Paperback
$34.19

As surveyor of the post roads on the continent of North America, Hugh Finlay surveyed the post offices between Falmouth...  Read More >>

Consider It Done

Consider It Done

Author: John Pirinelli
ISBN: 9781600344480
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Travel the extraordinary path of an American soldier critically wounded in Iraq. This vivid account of his journey...  Read More >>

The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 Days That Changed the Nation

The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the...

Author: Howard Means
ISBN: 9780151012121
Format: Undefined
$66.00

From the moment of Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865, until Andrew Johnson, his replacement, formally announced...  Read More >>

Sobre mis Pasos

Sobre mis Pasos

Author: Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
ISBN: 9786071107329
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader

After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and...

Author: Brian Latell ,  Stefan Rudnicki
ISBN: 9780786161294
Format: Audio
$237.60

"""Few Americans understand Cuba--past, present, and future--better than Brian Latell. He has combined an old CIA...  Read More >>

After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader

After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and...

Author: Brian Latell ,  Stefan Rudnicki
ISBN: 9780786161287
Format: Audio
$79.07

"""Few Americans understand Cuba--past, present, and future--better than Brian Latell. He has combined an old CIA...  Read More >>

John Gerard: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan

John Gerard: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan

Author: John Gerard ,  Philip Caraman
ISBN: 9781871217636
Format: Hardback
$38.68

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Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary

Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's...

Author: Henry Hitchings
ISBN: 9780312426200
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, this volume tells the story of Samuel Johnson's endeavor to create an...  Read More >>

The Bell Family in Baddeck: Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel Bell in Cape Breton

The Bell Family in Baddeck: Alexander Graham Bell and...

Author: Judith Tulloch
ISBN: 9780887807138
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A warm and inviting picture-album look at the life and work of Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell during their years...  Read More >>

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

Author: Karen Armstrong
ISBN: 9780060598976
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Respectful without being reverential, knowledgeable without being pedantic, and, above all, readable. --The Economist....  Read More >>

Tell Me A War Story

Tell Me A War Story

Author: George E Kinback, Jr ,  Maj George E Kinback Jr
ISBN: 9781419648274
Format: Paperback
$69.72

This manuscript is a compilation of individual stories from my experiences as an Army Aviator and instructor pilot...  Read More >>

Churchill's Man of Mystery

Churchill's Man of Mystery

Author: Gill Bennett (Foreign & Commonwealth Office)
ISBN: 9781280622229
Format: Electronic book text
$332.48

This unique book, based on full access to official records, exposes for the very first time the mysterious life...  Read More >>

At War: Me and My Charley-47

At War: Me and My Charley-47

Author: Wm L Johnson
ISBN: 9781598243376
Format: Hardback
$71.15

"At War: Me and My Charley-47 is a new WW II book by an Army Air Force Troop Carrier pilot about the ""flying stevedores""...  Read More >>

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