Autobiography: historical, political & military books

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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic...

Author: Jon Meacham
ISBN: 9780812972825
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Jon Meacham ""weaves together the lives, characters, and fates of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill"" (""Time"")...  Read More >>

Amongst the Marines: The Untold Story

Amongst the Marines: The Untold Story

Author: Steven Preece
ISBN: 9781840188523
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Steven Preece was a Royal Marine Commando from 1983 to 1990, serving first at entry-level and then as a lance-corporal....  Read More >>

The Letters of Daniel Webster

The Letters of Daniel Webster

Author: C H Van Tyne
ISBN: 9781410216939
Format: Paperback
$47.49

This standard Webster collection, fully annotated and edited, by the noted American scholar, contains a useful subject...  Read More >>

The Harold Nicolson Diaries

The Harold Nicolson Diaries

Author: Nigel Nicolson ,  Nigel Nicolson
ISBN: 9780297847649
Format: Hardback
$145.20

One of the great 20th century political diaries back in print in a new edition with 20% new material  Read More >>

A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience

A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather...

Author: Thai Jones
ISBN: 9780743250276
Format: Hardback
$68.64

In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through...  Read More >>

God Said No: The Commissar's Boots

God Said No: The Commissar's Boots

Author: Peter Kreutzfeldt ,  Walter Rickhoff
ISBN: 9781594577024
Format: Paperback
$50.13

The book begins before World War II and ends after, however the majority of the story takes place during the war...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great: Tie In Edition

Alexander the Great: Tie In Edition

Author: Robin Fox
ISBN: 9780143035138
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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Don't Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860-1975

Don't Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache...

Author: Eva Tulene Watt ,  Keith H Basso
ISBN: 9780816523924
Format: Hardback
$132.00

When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great: Son of the Gods

Alexander the Great: Son of the Gods

Author: Alan Fildes ,  Joann Fletcher
ISBN: 9780892367832
Format: Paperback
$52.67

In a year-by-year chronicle, this book presents an intimate and fascinating portrait of the man who created the...  Read More >>

Pacified Zone

Pacified Zone

Author: Gary W Suffern
ISBN: 9781413730777
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Lieutenant Gary W. Suffernas first week started with a bang in Viet Namas central highlands and ended with a bang...  Read More >>

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Vol 2.

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Vol 2.

Author: Ulysses S Grant ,  U S Grant
ISBN: 9781595401250
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Part of the World Library's Classic Books , this made study a pleasant pastime for the author. Although frequently...  Read More >>

Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen

Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen

Author: Warren H Carroll
ISBN: 9780931888434
Format: Paperback
$52.80

One of the most powerful and compelling figures of all history, Isabel of Spain was a force with which to be reckoned,...  Read More >>

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Vol 1.

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Vol 1.

Author: Ulysses S Grant ,  U S Grant
ISBN: 9781595401243
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support...  Read More >>

La Malinche

La Malinche

Author: Juan Miralles
ISBN: 9789706990969
Format: Paperback
$60.59

In this detailed and enthralling tale of the Mexican Conquest we witness how a slave, named Marina, later called...  Read More >>

A. Lincoln: The Crucible of Congress

A. Lincoln: The Crucible of Congress

Author: Paul Findley
ISBN: 9781885852410
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Lincoln scholars from around the country laud Findley's book as an unsurpassed account of Lincoln's short career...  Read More >>

Captain Canot: Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Captain Canot: Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Author: Theodore Canot ,  Brantz Mayer
ISBN: 9781410216915
Format: Paperback
$42.21

A detailed account by a former captain of a slave ship accurately portraying the realities of commercial slavery...  Read More >>

Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870

Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870...

Author: Henry Alexander White
ISBN: 9781410216878
Format: Paperback
$47.49

A full-scale standard biography, covering the role of Robert E. Lee in the development of the Southern Confederacy....  Read More >>

Notes of a War Correspondent

Notes of a War Correspondent

Author: R H Davis ,  1st World Library
ISBN: 9781595401151
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support...  Read More >>

The Boys Life of Abraham Lincoln

The Boys Life of Abraham Lincoln

Author: Helen Nicolay ,  1stworld Library
ISBN: 9781595404343
Format: Paperback
$31.55

CONTENTS: A PRESIDENT'S CHILDHOOD CAPTAIN LINCOLN LAWYER LINCOLN CONGRESSMAN LINCOLN THE CHAMPION OF FREEDOM THE...  Read More >>

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson ,  R L Stevenson
ISBN: 9781595405081
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin from Robert Louis Stevenson. Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer (1850-1894)....  Read More >>

Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters

Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet...

Author: Violet Jessop ,  John Maxtone-Graham
ISBN: 9781574091847
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including...  Read More >>

I've Got Things to Do with My Life

I've Got Things to Do with My Life

Author: Mike Towle
ISBN: 9781600787195
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The inspirational story of Pat Tillman's incredible, heroic journey, this book explores his choice to quit the National...  Read More >>

Duke: A Great Hawaiian

Duke: A Great Hawaiian

Author: Sandra Kimberley Hall ,  Wilmer C Morris
ISBN: 9781573062305
Format: Hardback
$34.19

Hawai'i's Ambassador of Aloha, Duke Kahanamoku, is remembered for his Olympic medals and as the Father of International...  Read More >>

Under Wraps

Under Wraps

Author: Jay Coffman ,  Thomas C Fulks
ISBN: 9781890905538
Format: Hardback
$68.64

Coffman shares the wartime diary of foot soldier Jay Coffman, who served in the South Pacific throughout World War...  Read More >>

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