Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long

Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long

Author: Richard D White Jr ,  Patrick Cullen
ISBN: 9780786174003
Format: Audio
$79.07

Outrageous demagogue or charismatic visionary? In this powerful new biography, Richard D. White, Jr., brings Huey...  Read More >>

Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long

Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long

Author: Richard D White ,  Patrick Cullen
ISBN: 9780786167340
Format: Audio
$213.84

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Agrippina Die Jungere

Agrippina Die Jungere

Author: Maike Vogt-Luerssen
ISBN: 9783833452147
Format: Paperback
$67.32

In der Blutezeit des romischen Kaiserreiches, das mit Augustus begann und mit Trajan endete, lebte die grosste romische...  Read More >>

A Boy in Hiding: Surviving the Nazis, Amsterdam 1940-1945

A Boy in Hiding: Surviving the Nazis, Amsterdam 1940-1945...

Author: Stan Rubens ,  Ronny Rubens
ISBN: 9781931643894
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Out of Wyoming: A Memoir

Out of Wyoming: A Memoir

Author: Edward, C. Bryant
ISBN: 9781591139768
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Humorous, educational, philosophical, and sometimes tragic, this memoir traces the rise from the uncompromising...  Read More >>

My Life on Two Continents

My Life on Two Continents

Author: Mathilde Apelt Schmidt
ISBN: 9780595397488
Format: Paperback
$55.31

Raised in Germany during the Hitler years this girl had two wishes: to go to a university and to leave Germany for...  Read More >>

The Age of Erasmus

The Age of Erasmus

Author: P S Allen
ISBN: 9781406804096
Format: Paperback
$28.78

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No Pardons to Ask, Nor Apologies to Make: The Journal of William Henry King, Gray's 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment

No Pardons to Ask, Nor Apologies to Make: The Journal...

Author: Gary Joiner ,  Joiner Marilyn
ISBN: 9781572334618
Format: Hardback
$116.16

William Henry King began war service in 1862 in Louisiana and ended it in 1865 in Camden, Arkansas. During this...  Read More >>

John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy

John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century...

Author: William Caferro (Vanderbilt University)
ISBN: 9780801883231
Format: Hardback
$113.52

John Hawkwood was fourteenth-century Italy's most notorious and successful soldier. Providing an account of Hawkwood's...  Read More >>

At the Going Down of the Sun....

At the Going Down of the Sun....

Author: Charlie Warren
ISBN: 9781419642173
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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Stalking Billy the Kid: Brief Sketches of a Short Life

Stalking Billy the Kid: Brief Sketches of a Short Life...

Author: Marc Simmons
ISBN: 9780865345256
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Within this edition is a collection of the author's previously publilshed writings pertaining to Billy the Kid's...  Read More >>

Vienna Voices: A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams

Vienna Voices: A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams...

Author: Jill Knight Weinberger
ISBN: 9781932559880
Format: Hardback
$89.76

This work of creative nonfiction offers a nuanced portrait of the City of Dreams. Inspired in part by the story...  Read More >>

Unsung Hero

Unsung Hero

Author: Kevin Fulton
ISBN: 9781844540341
Format: Hardback
$79.20

On a Saturday morning in August 1998, a car was parked in Omagh's high street. In the afternoon, the explosives...  Read More >>

Boy Soldier of the Confederacy

Boy Soldier of the Confederacy

Author: Kathleen Gorman
ISBN: 9786613674142
Format: Electronic book text
$88.55

<p>Johnnie Wickersham was fourteen when he ran away from his Missouri home to fight for the Confederacy. Fifty years...  Read More >>

Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long

Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long

Author: Richard D White, Jr ,  Patrick Cullen
ISBN: 9780786146727
Format: Audio
$174.11

From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin's bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long...  Read More >>

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City:...

Author: Anonymous ,  Philip Boehm
ISBN: 9780312426118
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War

The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our...

Author: Neil Baldwin
ISBN: 9780312325442
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In The American Revelation, Neil Baldwin, one of our most exciting and provocative intellectual historians, applies...  Read More >>

Fifty Two Years in the Cockpit

Fifty Two Years in the Cockpit

Author: Sqn Ldr K R Jackson ,  Squadron Leader K. R. Jackson
ISBN: 9781873257692
Format: Paperback
$36.22

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Charlie DeLeo: Keeper Of The Flame

Charlie DeLeo: Keeper Of The Flame

Author: William C Armstrong
ISBN: 9781597819299
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Charlie DeLeo's lifelong devotion to keeping the Statue of Liberty's Flame burning bright is a story that will inspire...  Read More >>

Nets of Gold

Nets of Gold

Author: Jo-Anne Southern
ISBN: 9781424135707
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Set shortly after WWII, Nets of Gold is a heartwarming and poignant saga that traces the life of a family from an...  Read More >>

Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime

Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime...

Author: Xandra Bingley
ISBN: 9780007149513
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A lyrical, evocative and wonderfully original wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through...  Read More >>

Stormjammers: The Extraordinary Story of Electronic Warfare Operations in the Gulf War (Collector's Edition)

Stormjammers: The Extraordinary Story of Electronic...

Author: Robert Stanek
ISBN: 9781575450841
Format: Hardback
$68.51

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The Lion Tamer

The Lion Tamer

Author: Art Goddard
ISBN: 9781598862249
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Born on June 21, 1918, Art Goddard: The Lion Tamer-a humble man in spirit, a gentle man at heart-grew up in New...  Read More >>

An Angel on My Shoulder

An Angel on My Shoulder

Author: Donald Heichel
ISBN: 9781598863789
Format: Paperback
$28.91

Sharing from his own personal journals of the war in Afghanistan, author Donald A. Heichel II explains how a reserve...  Read More >>

Dress Gray: A Woman at West Point

Dress Gray: A Woman at West Point

Author: Donna Peterson
ISBN: 9781571683960
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"After graduating from West Point in 1982 with a degree in general engineering, Donna Peterson went on to become...  Read More >>

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