Autobiography: historical, political & military books

23614 books were found.

Walter Citrine: Forgotten Statesman of the Trades Union Congress

Walter Citrine: Forgotten Statesman of the Trades Union...

Author: Dr Jim Moher
ISBN: 9780955710728
Format: Hardback
$89.73

The story of Lord Citrine, who came from the Mersey docks to become the leader of Britain's trade unions and confidant...  Read More >>

The My Guy Club: The Chicago Machine, Mob. Teamsters and the Guv!

The My Guy Club: The Chicago Machine, Mob. Teamsters...

Author: Daniel Stefanski
ISBN: 9781645317142
Format: Paperback
$56.80

Follow Squirrel through the neighborhoods of Chicago's ethnic bungalow belt as a member of a street gang, employment...  Read More >>

Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz

Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz

Author: Olga Lengyel
ISBN: 9781774641699
Format: Paperback
$26.27

"Memoir of a Hungarian woman who was imprisoned for several years in the German concentration camp Auschwitz. Olga...  Read More >>

Nomasomali

Nomasomali

Author: Goniwe Nkomo ,  Marjorie Nomasomali
ISBN: 9781928341857
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Nomasomali – Ubomi bam is the life story of an extraordinary South African woman. Born in 1941 in Bizana in the...  Read More >>

Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780008442736
Format: Paperback
$9.99

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Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780008442743
Format: Paperback
$9.99

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Shortest Way Home: One mayor's challenge and a model for America's future

Shortest Way Home: One mayor's challenge and a model...

Author: Pete Buttigieg
ISBN: 9781529398069
Format: Paperback
$24.99

'The best American political biography since Obama's Dreams from My Father' Guardian NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...  Read More >>

The Journals of Captain Cook

The Journals of Captain Cook

Author: James Cook ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513269443
Format: Paperback
$42.99

Depicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored...  Read More >>

The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation

The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation

Author: Christopher Zyda
ISBN: 9781644281680
Format: Hardback
$47.99

Christopher Zyda confronts the long-buried and painful memories of his harrowing fifteen-year journey in The Storm:...  Read More >>

They Called Me LT: Inside the Heart and Mind of an Infantry Platoon Leader

They Called Me LT: Inside the Heart and Mind of an Infantry...

Author: Ronald J Nielsen
ISBN: 9781636303710
Format: Paperback
$56.80

"A young man is thrust into a leadership position in an environment completely foreign from how he was raised. He...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave Illustrated

Twelve Years a Slave Illustrated

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9798710920251
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by...  Read More >>

Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight

Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle...

Author: Amy Shira Teitel
ISBN: 9781538716052
Format: Paperback
$47.49

The mostly-unknown tale of Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb-two accomplished aviatrixes, one generation apart, who...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513264530
Format: Paperback
$12.99

This is an account of Frederick Douglass's life as a slave in the pre-civil war American South. It presents a telling...  Read More >>

Confessions

Confessions

Author: Saint Augustine ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513269627
Format: Paperback
$19.99

The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting...  Read More >>

Twenty Years at Hull-House

Twenty Years at Hull-House

Author: Jane Addams ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513267715
Format: Paperback
$22.99

""From a sickly childhood to invaluable social work and advocacy, Jane Addams spent a lifetime making her community...  Read More >>

Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust

Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust

Author: James Comey
ISBN: 9781529062823
Format: Paperback
$19.99

From James Comey, former FBI director and the number one bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, Saving Justice...  Read More >>

Up From Slavery: Autobiography

Up From Slavery: Autobiography

Author: Booker T Washington
ISBN: 9798707489372
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915). The book describes...  Read More >>

Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust

Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust

Author: James Comey
ISBN: 9781529062816
Format: Hardback
$44.99

From James Comey, former FBI director and the number one bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, Saving Justice...  Read More >>

Promises to Keep

Promises to Keep

Author: Joe Biden
ISBN: 9781922310897
Format: Paperback
$35.00

President-elect Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack...  Read More >>

Musings of a Military Mind

Musings of a Military Mind

Author: Brig Suyash Sharma Vsm
ISBN: 9781637455500
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Take a peek into the puntastic (as one of the readers described the Musings of this Military Mind) collection...  Read More >>

Downsizing: How I lost 8 stone, reversed my diabetes and regained my health

Downsizing: How I lost 8 stone, reversed my diabetes...

Author: Tom Watson
ISBN: 9780857839060
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Downsizing is Tom Watson's honest, frank and inspiring account of how he radically changed the way he ate, lost...  Read More >>

The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

Author: Henry Adams ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513267678
Format: Paperback
$34.99

This classic autobiography includes accounts of Adams's residence in England and of his diplomatic education in...  Read More >>

Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, at Home and Abroad

Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, at Home...

Author: John O Brennan
ISBN: 9781432885359
Format: Hardback
$89.73

"A ""memoir from former CIA director John Brennan spanning his more than thirty years in government [in which he]...  Read More >>

From Darkness to Light

From Darkness to Light

Author: James E Hackbarth
ISBN: 9781662802232
Format: Paperback
$44.85

My PTSD raise its ugly head on many occasions especially with authoritative figures, mostly showing up with anger...  Read More >>

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