Autobiography: historical, political & military books

Originally published in 1950, this first account of life with England's Royal Family, written by the governess of...  Read More >>

The story of the 15-month deployment of 5/73 Cav to Iraq in 2006-07, in the soldiers' own words.  Read More >>

Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War. This vivid firsthand record...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1950, this first account of life with England's Royal Family, written by the governess of...  Read More >>

This book delivers a slice of the exciting life of a former SAS man for hire.  Read More >>

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Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and...  Read More >>

Eight years on from the publication of her internationally bestselling memoir, WE ARE DISPLACED presents true stories...  Read More >>

""Published ... in association with Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random...  Read More >>

Introduced by leading historian Helen Graham, Homage to Catalonia is Orwell’s first-hand account of the Spanish...  Read More >>

For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer in North America,...  Read More >>

Anna Ella Carroll was an American politician, pamphleteer and lobbyist. She was born into a very wealthy and prominent...  Read More >>

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Family history and archive circa 1885 - 1960 distilled from documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war,...  Read More >>

“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Biden writes in this...  Read More >>

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Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27-before...  Read More >>

Matilda de Braose was renowned as a formidable defender of her lord's lands, the builder of Hay Castle, a strong...  Read More >>

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Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for himself in Seattle...  Read More >>

Includes Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognised as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative...  Read More >>

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