Autobiography: historical, political & military books

This Sunday Times bestselling memoir tells the engrossing and terrifying story of the bombing and sinking of HMS...  Read More >>

"This is not your ordinary tale of military service. Jim's life in the USAF was not ""all work and no play."" In...  Read More >>

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according...  Read More >>

How Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy fought for women's rights and the vote. Elizabeth was a founder of the suffragist...  Read More >>

For 40 years, Wayne was a pilot who served wilderness areas along the Alaska Highway accessible only by helicopter....  Read More >>

The Few Who Flew is an evocative memoir written by one of the last young men to train as a RAF pilot, gaining his...  Read More >>

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Since he was a child in the 1950s watching Vampires and Meteors operating from RAF Turnhouse, Jim Walls wanted to...  Read More >>

"For generations, thousands upon thousands of young American men and women have paid the ultimate price, giving...  Read More >>

For 40 years, Wayne was a pilot who served wilderness areas along the Alaska Highway accessible only by helicopter....  Read More >>

The founder of the ""Topgun"" Navy Fighter School shares the remarkable inside story of how he and eight other risk-takers...  Read More >>

The insights and memories of a member of the British Royal Family - HRH The Duke of Kent in conversation with Hugo...  Read More >>

“Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat.” —New Yorker Now in paperback with a new epilogue In...  Read More >>

‘An important contribution to our recent history’ ANDREW MARR ‘Absorbing and...  Read More >>

An inspiring, all-American story from the former White House head chef, who made his way from a farm in rural Mississippi...  Read More >>

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Memoirs of Tejendra Khanna, former bureaucrat, detail Indian bureaucracy challenges, experiences in key events like...  Read More >>

How public events affect private lives is a Leitmotiv of this moving memoir. Eva and her secular Jewish family managed...  Read More >>

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A unique portrait of war -- and a charming coming-of-age story -- from the private diaries of Winston Churchill's...  Read More >>

"""Katy Tur reveals a life lived in TV news and reflects on the business of broadcast news and her role in it during...  Read More >>

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David Lee Dolinger's memoir, the American who walked into the middle of an uprising for his fellow Peace Corps volunteer...  Read More >>