Autobiography: historical, political & military books

John and Mary's candy store was one of four in the magical place known as Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York, in the...  Read More >>

One of few women's diaries from Civil War-era Texas and the only one written by a Northerner, this previously unpublished...  Read More >>

A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America...  Read More >>

President Barack Obama’s #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir of his childhood and young adult years, a compelling...  Read More >>

Orphan of the Killing Fields. The Life Journey of an Orphan Survivor. This is the story of a young man who went...  Read More >>

This academic biography is the first to examine the influence of Knox's radical upbringing, Parisian training and...  Read More >>

Discover a fascinating and remote part of India through this unusual and vivid introduction to the countryside,...  Read More >>

The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family,...  Read More >>

Though Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are well-known historical names, that of Matilda Joslyn Gage...  Read More >>

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Colonel Wilkinson spent 31 years in the British Army with the Royal Artillery, commando and parachute brigades and...  Read More >>

In the author's debut memoir, she left the small, all-black community of Camptown in southeastern VA, at 17 years...  Read More >>

"Dr. Mohan Kanda retired from the Indian Administrative Service (Andhra Pradesh Cadre) in 2005. In his long and...  Read More >>

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The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a...  Read More >>

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"""Weapons of War'' is an amazing story of a young African American, who was drafted, trained as a combat soldier...  Read More >>

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Paging through The Sketchbook is like opening a time capsule into a period of both deep affection and deprivation...  Read More >>

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

"With few exceptions, every law that was passed in Congress for eight years required Majority Leader Dick Armey's...  Read More >>

"With few exceptions, every law that was passed in Congress for eight years required Majority Leader Dick Armey's...  Read More >>

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This is a biography of my father, Dr. Barua. I always wanted to read story books instead of textbooks when I was...  Read More >>

An extraordinarily moving and candid memoir from the womanbest known as Hillary Clinton’s right hand and Anthony...  Read More >>