Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23598 books were found.

Mustard Seeds: A Conservative Becomes a Catholic

Mustard Seeds: A Conservative Becomes a Catholic

Author: L Brent Bozell
ISBN: 9780931888731
Format: Hardback
$42.24

Mustard Seeds is the journal of a remarkable spiritual odyssey, the origin and destination points of which are...  Read More >>

The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind

The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear...

Author: Mahdi Obeidi ,  Kurt Pitzer
ISBN: 9780471679653
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Presents an inside look at Saddam's regime and its quest for nuclear weapons. This title intends to show how easy...  Read More >>

Well Done, Those Men

Well Done, Those Men

Author: Barry Heard
ISBN: 9781920769260
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Barry Heard, in this personal account, draws on his experiences as a young conscript, along with those of his comrades....  Read More >>

A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency

A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence...

Author: Richard Helms ,  William Hood
ISBN: 9780812971088
Format: Paperback
$29.99

cover-up • Uncovers the amazing results of the CIA’s Berlin tunnel operation and the remarkable progress of high-altitude...  Read More >>

An Emotional Gauntlet: From Life in Peacetime America to the War in European Skies

An Emotional Gauntlet: From Life in Peacetime America...

Author: Stuart J. Wright ,  Grant Wright
ISBN: 9780299205201
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"Stuart J. Wright tells the gripping story of a World War II American aircrew flying missions from England in a...  Read More >>

Gods of Tin: The Flying Years

Gods of Tin: The Flying Years

Author: James Salter ,  Jessica Benton
ISBN: 9781593760069
Format: Hardback
$63.36

"Selections and photographs gathered from a journal kept by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author during the Korean...  Read More >>

Walking On Sand: The Story of an Immigrant Son and the Forgotten Art of Public Service

Walking On Sand: The Story of an Immigrant Son and the...

Author: Rocco C Siciliano ,  Drew Ross
ISBN: 9780874808056
Format: Hardback
$66.00

A biography of Salt Lake-born Rocco C. Siciliano, the first Italian-American to serve in the White House as an assistant...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History's Greatest Conqueror

Alexander the Great: The Brief Life and Towering Exploits...

Author: Arrian ,  Plutarch
ISBN: 9780142001400
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Comprising selections from the writings of Arrian, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius Rufus, this definitive biography...  Read More >>

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Author: Ron Chernow ,  Professor Grover Gardner
ISBN: 9781101193525
Format: Downloadable audio file
$147.71

From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow comes a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father...  Read More >>

The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma

The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma...

Author: Jacques Poitras
ISBN: 9780864923769
Format: Hardback
$79.07

In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalists...  Read More >>

The Loss of the Wager: The Narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John Byron. First Person Singular.

The Loss of the Wager: The Narratives of John Bulkeley...

Author: John Bulkeley ,  John Byron
ISBN: 9786611949969
Format: Electronic book text
$184.54

 Read More >>

Born in Baghdad

Born in Baghdad

Author: Heskel M Haddad
ISBN: 9780595327089
Format: Paperback
$65.87

<p>In Baghdad, Iraq, in 1939, nine-year-old Heskel Haddad, then the most fervent of Iraqi nationalists, first heard...  Read More >>

Beyond Magnolias: My First 30 Years

Beyond Magnolias: My First 30 Years

Author: HARRY H. KENDALL
ISBN: 9781418406127
Format: Paperback
$39.47

 Read More >>

The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold-McClintock, Discoverer of the Fate of Franklin

The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold-McClintock, Discoverer...

Author: David Murphy
ISBN: 9781770701793
Format: Electronic book text
$79.20

 Read More >>

Let Me Go

Let Me Go

Author: Helga Schneider ,  Barbara Rosenblat
ISBN: 9780786185139
Format: Audio
$65.87

In this powerful memoir, the author describes her relationship and final encounter with her mother, who abandoned...  Read More >>

John Ransom's Diary: Andersonville

John Ransom's Diary: Andersonville

Author: John Ransom ,  David Thorn
ISBN: 9780786183418
Format: Audio
$147.84

This book is an extraordinary day-to-day documentary of the Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison, Camp Sumter,...  Read More >>

Search of Far Horizons

Search of Far Horizons

Author: Robert Ellsworth Lewis
ISBN: 9780741421173
Format: Paperback
$60.59

The Boxer Rebellion, Social Challenges, the Invasion of Manchuria; the late 19th and early 20th century from the...  Read More >>

John Kerry and the Vietnam War

John Kerry and the Vietnam War

Author: Douglas Brinkley
ISBN: 9780060565299
Format: Book
$39.47

Acclaimed historian Brinkley explores Senator John Kerry's tour of duty in Vietnam and odyssey from highly-decorated...  Read More >>

Papers James Madison Vol 5 10Th July-7 Feb 1813

Papers James Madison Vol 5 10Th July-7 Feb 1813

Author: James Madison ,  J C a Stagg
ISBN: 9780813922584
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Access to people, places, and events discussed is facilitated by detailed annotation and a comprehensive index....  Read More >>

Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest'S Fighting Lieutenant

Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest'S Fighting...

Author: Nathaniel Cheairs, Hughes ,  Jim Browne
ISBN: 9781572333093
Format: Hardback
$118.80

For two years, Tyree H. Bell (1814-1902) served as one of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s most trusted lieutenants in the...  Read More >>

Pepys's Later Diaries

Pepys's Later Diaries

Author: Samuel Pepys ,  C S Knighton
ISBN: 9780750936569
Format: Hardback
$55.00

 Read More >>

Mary Queen of Scots: Her Environment and Tragedy

Mary Queen of Scots: Her Environment and Tragedy

Author: T F Henderson
ISBN: 9781410216724
Format: Paperback
$47.49

First published in 1905, this work capitalized on several late nineteenth century studies which began to open up...  Read More >>

His Excellency: George Washington: George Washington

His Excellency: George Washington: George Washington...

Author: Nelson Runger ,  Nelson Runger
ISBN: 9781402544767
Format: Audio
$92.37

"Focusing on the greatest hero in American history, this is the long-awaited biography of George Washington by the...  Read More >>

His Excellency: George Washington

His Excellency: George Washington

Author: University Joseph J Ellis (Mount Holyoke College)
ISBN: 9781402593017
Format: Audio
$92.37

Focusing on the greatest hero in American history, this is the long-awaited biography of George Washington by the...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List