Biography & Autobiography Books

The Final Flight of Maggie's Drawers is the true story of Joe Maloney, a B-24 tail gunner during WWII. HIs story unfolds as he describes, in detail...

EJ Johnson's story of nine young men who overcame unbelievable odds with the 8th Air Force 490th Bomb Group flying missions over Germany during the...

In 1948, Colonel David W. Irvin, Jr. volunteered for the Berlin Airlift and flew 85 missions from Rhein-Main AB at Frankfurt, Germany. He later vol...

The history of seven unique American combat "aces" of World War II and Korea. We earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.s...

During WWII, Iowans of the "Mighty Eighth" Air Force were based in England from 1942 to 1946, a year after the end of WWII. Ground crews labored en...

James Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family's Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an E...

From Brooklyn To Tokyo Bay: A Sailor’s Story is the story of how Albert R. Pincus and the young men of his generation fought for the United States ...

(From the Synopsis) The letters passing back and forth between these two "Bills" trace their day-by-day wartime adventures (and occasional misadven...

Collection of writings of George W. May. (From the Preface) “In this incongruous collection of my writings comprising various literary forms, one m...

(From the Foreword) The Price of Glory is an autobiography of my twenty-three-plus years in the Army Air Corps and the Air Force. I have tried to s...

Reflections of a Teenage Barnstormer is the story of a 1933 two-month barnstorming tour of the Ohio River Valley of southern Indiana when the autho...

Fifty-five years have passed since Al and Van fell in love as wartime sweethearts. He returned to the States and she returned to her home in Cardif...

This 160 page book serves as a memoir of a lawman (Harry Spiller) from Williamson County, Illinois and tells of his stories and ventures as a sheri...

Tennessee Stories' vivid description of characters from the Eastern mountains to the Western flatlands creates an accurate, humorous, entertaining,...

The author, from Smith County, Mississippi, writes of his experiences fighting in WWII. We earn a commission for purchases made through the followi...

On April 29, 1940, the governments of Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand got together in Ottawa to sign an agreement implementing the...

Former special agent and assistant director of the FBI, Ray Wannall, writes a comprehensive, insider's commentary regarding one of the most powerfu...

This book began when the Associated Press sent out on its wire services an announcement that the 50th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Italy w...

(From the Preface) The purpose of gathering information contained within this book, is to allow the descendants of Thomas F. Burton to understand w...

Observations of a lineman with the 150th Armored Signal company laying wire from 10th Armored Division Headquarters to the forward units in 1944-45...

THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION She looked like everyone’s grandmother: white-haired, plump, bespectacled, and kindly. Only Dorothea Montalv...

To know the story of the life and times of Judge Gilbert Merritt is to understand modern U.S. politics of the mid to late 20th century—how it came...

As he took charge of his city’s response to the 9/11 attacks, New York City's mayor Rudy Giuliani became the most admired man in America, and perha...

The life and times of Warwick Davis, star of Ricky Gervais's forthcoming sitcom, Life's Too ShortActors work their entire careers hoping to achiev...