Biography: historical, political & military books

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Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang...

Author: Kenneth M. Swope
ISBN: 9781682472859
Format: Hardback
$72.60

Provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and...  Read More >>

Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War

Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War

Author: Walter Howell
ISBN: 9781496850768
Format: Hardback
$47.30

Part biography and part military history, Fallen Comrade examines what happened to three young men from Clinton,...  Read More >>

Admiral James Stavridis: Sailor, Scholar, Leader

Admiral James Stavridis: Sailor, Scholar, Leader

Author: Stanley D.M. Carpenter
ISBN: 9781682475201
Format: Hardback
$50.60

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Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of...

Author: Douglas Boyd
ISBN: 9781526767080
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A unique look at the extraordinary lives of the royal child brides of the Angevin Empire.  Read More >>

Unmarried Women of the Country Estate: Four Stories from 17th-20th Century

Unmarried Women of the Country Estate: Four Stories...

Author: Charlotte Furness
ISBN: 9781526757593
Format: Paperback
$39.99

These are elite women, all connected to country houses or from noble families throughout the UK, and this book explores...  Read More >>

Fifty Years On The Frontlines: The Extraordinary Life of Cinematographer David Brill

Fifty Years On The Frontlines: The Extraordinary Life...

Author: Tim Bowden ,  David Brill
ISBN: 9781923024281
Format: Paperback
$39.95

An autobiography of David Brill, as as recoprded and edited by Tim Bowden.  Read More >>

The Inevitable Hour: "From Kokoda to Kure (Volume 6. of ""the Doctors at War"" Series)"

The Inevitable Hour: "From Kokoda to Kure (Volume 6....

Author: Robert Likeman
ISBN: 9781925043785
Format: Hardback
$70.00

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Hangar 4: A Combat Aviator's Memoir

Hangar 4: A Combat Aviator's Memoir

Author: Isaac G Lee
ISBN: 9798885280792
Format: Paperback
$50.13

The Best of the Best . . . Risk taker. Son. Badass. Husband. Combat aviator. Father. From Officer Candidates School...  Read More >>

James Monroe: La biograf�a del �ltimo padre fundador, comprador de Luisiana y quinto presidente de Estados Unidos

James Monroe: La biograf�a del �ltimo padre fundador,...

Author: United Library
ISBN: 9789464900712
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Profundice en la vida y la carrera pol�tica de James Monroe, el quinto presidente de los Estados Unidos, en esta...  Read More >>

The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and the Scandal That Made Her

The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and...

Author: Graham Watson
ISBN: 9781803995373
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Backstabbing, stalking, and illicit love; discover the Brontë family as they’ve never been seen before  Read More >>

Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement

Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement...

Author: John Hendry (Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198910237
Format: Hardback
$74.95

The first scholarly biography of Emily Davies, a central figure in the women's movement of the long 1860s, and a...  Read More >>

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12...

Author: Jason Bell
ISBN: 9781639366316
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis, and the first spy to crack Hitler's deadliest...  Read More >>

The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature

The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature...

Author: Victoria Owens
ISBN: 9781399056618
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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Che Guevara: The Romantic Revolutionary

Che Guevara: The Romantic Revolutionary

Author: Allan Todd
ISBN: 9781399042734
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Although Che Guevara was murdered almost sixty years ago, the famous red-and-black image of him is still widely...  Read More >>

Blood and Fire: The Hero Who Conquered the Skies

Blood and Fire: The Hero Who Conquered the Skies

Author: C M S Thornton
ISBN: 9781923212046
Format: Hardback
$131.97

"""Blood and Fire"" is the story of office-clerk-turned-war-hero William Palstra, as told in his letters and diaries....  Read More >>

Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America

Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming...

Author: Luis A. Miranda, Jr. ,  Richard Wolffe
ISBN: 9780306833229
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Essential reading from an expert voice our country needs: Luis Miranda's personal and political memoir reveals a...  Read More >>

Marshall's Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars

Marshall's Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M....

Author: Kathy Wilson
ISBN: 9780813199146
Format: Hardback
$211.20

The first biography dedicated to the namesake of Joint Base Andrews, this book sheds a light on Andrews's crucial...  Read More >>

A Churchill Treasury: Sir Winston’s Public Service through Memorabilia

A Churchill Treasury: Sir Winston’s Public Service through...

Author: Brian E Krapf
ISBN: 9781399017015
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Unique approach to describing and documenting the career and public service of the immensely popular Sir Winston...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Heyrick: The Making of an Anti-Slavery Campaigner

Elizabeth Heyrick: The Making of an Anti-Slavery Campaigner...

Author: Jocelyn Robson
ISBN: 9781399068383
Format: Hardback
$59.99

This book is the first full length biography of Elizabeth Heyrick and it sets her life in the context of the British...  Read More >>

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9780385348744
Format: Hardback
$92.40

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between...  Read More >>

Joseph Goebbels: The biography of the Nazi Propaganda Minister as Master of Illusion and the Gestapo

Joseph Goebbels: The biography of the Nazi Propaganda...

Author: United Library
ISBN: 9789464902525
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Joseph Goebbels's story delves into the life of the infamous Nazi politician who wielded propaganda as a powerful...  Read More >>

Hangar 4: A Combat Aviator's Memoir

Hangar 4: A Combat Aviator's Memoir

Author: Isaac G Lee
ISBN: 9798885280808
Format: Hardback
$76.53

The Best of the Best . . . Risk taker. Son. Badass. Husband. Combat aviator. Father. From Officer Candidates School...  Read More >>

Brilliant Disguise

Brilliant Disguise

Author: Susan Kellam
ISBN: 9798888243435
Format: Paperback
$50.03

After their nuclear family exploded into a vaporous mushroom cloud, the two siblings could only duck and cover....  Read More >>

The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier

The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant...

Author: James M. Denham ,  Keith L. Huneycutt
ISBN: 9780813080635
Format: Paperback
$73.92

In 1840, twenty-three-year-old George Long Brown migrated from New Hampshire to north Florida, a region just emerging...  Read More >>

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