Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23598 books were found.

An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood

An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood...

Author: Jimmy Carter
ISBN: 9780743211994
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Friends, Voters, Countrymen

Friends, Voters, Countrymen

Author: Boris Johnson
ISBN: 9780007119141
Format: Paperback
$22.95

A look at the heart of our political process by a man who has crossed over from observer to activist, to become...  Read More >>

Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History

Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our...

Author: Kati Marton
ISBN: 9780385721882
Format: Paperback
$39.60

An engrossing look at twelve presidential marriages—from Edith and Woodrow Wilson to Laura and George W. Bush—that...  Read More >>

Three Years Among the Indians & Mexicans

Three Years Among the Indians & Mexicans

Author: Thomas James
ISBN: 9781589762022
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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Mr. China's Son: A Villager's Life

Mr. China's Son: A Villager's Life

Author: Liyi He ,  Claire Anne Chik
ISBN: 9786613276537
Format: Electronic book text
$211.20

This text recounts, through one individual's tortured life and a family's struggle, how a generation of Chinese...  Read More >>

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman

Author: Stefan Zweig ,  Eden Paul (TRANS)
ISBN: 9780802139092
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues...  Read More >>

A Walk with a White Bushman

A Walk with a White Bushman

Author: Sir Laurens Van Der Post
ISBN: 9780099428725
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography

Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography

Author: Don McCullin
ISBN: 9780099437765
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Thousand Days, A

Thousand Days, A

Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger
ISBN: 9780618219278
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner: ""Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.""—Time Arthur...  Read More >>

When All Alone I Stand: The Story of a Soldier Whose Convictions Cost Him a Mother's Love

When All Alone I Stand: The Story of a Soldier Whose...

Author: Jan S Doward
ISBN: 9780828015806
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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Okinawa: The Last World War II Battle

Okinawa: The Last World War II Battle

Author: Robert J McLaughlin
ISBN: 9780595236817
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick

Author: William J Federer
ISBN: 9780965355759
Format: Paperback
$39.47

This is the real history of the amazing life of St. Patrick that went from tragedy to triumph as he founded 300...  Read More >>

Building the Party: Lenin 1893-1914 (Vol. 1)

Building the Party: Lenin 1893-1914 (Vol. 1)

Author: Tony Cliff
ISBN: 9781931859011
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the pivotal events in world history, and the Russian Bolshevik Party played...  Read More >>

The Chicago Diaries of John M.Wing 1865-1866

The Chicago Diaries of John M.Wing 1865-1866

Author: John M. Wing ,  Robert Williams
ISBN: 9780809324835
Format: Hardback
$52.80

The personal diaries of fledgling journalist and entrepreneur John Mansir Wing create a unique portrait of a rough-and-tumble...  Read More >>

Pemberton: Defender of Vicksburg

Pemberton: Defender of Vicksburg

Author: John C. Pemberton
ISBN: 9780807854433
Format: Paperback
$84.48

A biography of the “Defender of Vicksburg”, General John C. Pemberton. Written by Pemberton's grandson and based...  Read More >>

Porcher's Creek: Lives Between the Tides

Porcher's Creek: Lives Between the Tides

Author: John Leland
ISBN: 9781570034572
Format: Hardback
$52.67

This work combines nature writing and reminiscence with a heartfelt examination of change along the South Carolina...  Read More >>

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

Author: Martin Amis
ISBN: 9780786868766
Format: Undefined
$65.87

In Koba --the word itself a childhood nickname of Stalin's--Amis is compelled, through his scathing prose and razor-sharp...  Read More >>

The Iron Hunter

The Iron Hunter

Author: Chase S. Osborn ,  Robert Warner (Historian, Dean, and Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, USA)
ISBN: 9780814330395
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Originally published in 1919, this is the autobiography of one of Michigan's most influential and flamboyant historical...  Read More >>

Let Us Not Forget: A Tribute to America's 20th Century Veterans

Let Us Not Forget: A Tribute to America's 20th Century...

Author: Vurlee A Toomey
ISBN: 9780595238231
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Lincoln's Own Stories

Lincoln's Own Stories

Author: Anthony Gross ,  Abraham Lincoln
ISBN: 9781589638716
Format: Paperback
$47.49

For many years, Mr. Gross, an enthusiastic student of Abraham Lincoln's life, collected and verified the best stories...  Read More >>

The Maharajah's Box: An Exotic Tale of Espionage, Intrigue, and Illicit Love in the Days of the Raj

The Maharajah's Box: An Exotic Tale of Espionage, Intrigue,...

Author: Christy Campbell
ISBN: 9781585672936
Format: Hardback
$79.07

In this fascinating, true tale of espionage, intrigue, and illicit love, Campbell explores the life of Maharajah...  Read More >>

Period Piece

Period Piece

Author: Gwen Raverat
ISBN: 9780753197448
Format: Hardback
$85.80

A memoir of a Cambridge childhood. Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of...  Read More >>

Manhattan Tales

Manhattan Tales

Author: Isabel Butterfield
ISBN: 9780753197646
Format: Hardback
$93.72

New York has always been a city full of stories. In this buoyant and affectionate oral history, the author reminisces...  Read More >>

Interviews with George F. Kennan

Interviews with George F. Kennan

Author: T. Christopher Jespersen ,  George Frost Kennan
ISBN: 9781578064489
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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