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This book is packed with humorous anecdotes that counter the more serious detail of the General's role in the military through to his retirement in July 2005. He writes colourfully of his early years and we follow him from raw recruit to Vietnam.

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Annotated by Professors Jansen and Eto, the book illuminates the experiences of Miyazaki's generation with Western culture and the development of an Asian consciousness. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished

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and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight.
My War is a powerful story of a young man and a war, unlike any you have read before.

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Details the life of the author from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838: how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die.

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Recounts definitive moments from the author's career as a Navy SEAL, discussing the missions that had the greatest personal meaning for him and explaining the lessons and values he hopes to pass on to the next generation.

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The student's and librarians' first-stop resource for recommended biographies and autobiographies of 500 notable women throughout world history.

The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. Using her own using notes and sketches she wrote during the siege, along with conversations and impressions collected over the years, she distilled the collective experience of life under siege.

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Mary Cheney, daughter of the American Vice President, talks for the first time about her life, her family and her role in the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns.

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An account on the author's relations with the industrialists, television and press chiefs, the Palace and the diplomatic world as well as trade unionists, civil servants, and his Cabinet colleagues. It reveals the workings of our political and economic systems at the highest level. It offers a political record of the 1960s.

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His early success - in his mid-twenties he became an agent for several professional athletes, including Muhammad Ali - brought him into contact with many of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, making him irresistible to master spy and CIA co-founder, Miles Copeland.

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This is a new issue of "Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan", one of the best first-hand accounts of the Civil War and the Indian wars which followed - a military chronicle as exciting, vivid and forthright as the life of the soldier who wrote it.

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Arnold Brecht witnessed and participated in the course of German history from the late 19th century to the present. Serving under seven Reich chancellors, he became acting Secretary of State, and was finally removed from office by Hitler in 1933. This is an absorbing account of these momentous years: a Germany preoccupied with conquest, the catast

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Emerging from Bellmarsh Prison, with nothing but a black plastic sack of clothes, the author recounts how he was accepted at Wycliffe Hall Oxford to read theology and how this reconditioned his mind as well as his soul. This sequel to his first volume of autobiography ("Pride and Perjury"), starts his story as he is taken down from the courtroom.

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Though intended only for the eyes of his beloved in England, this diary written by James Bell, sailor on the voyage of the good ship Planter to Australia in 1838, provides a unique insight into the experience of sailing to Australia in the middle of the Nineteenth Century. An invaluable addition to the history of the emigrant ships to Australia.

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A candid and revealing memoir from one of politics' great survivors - National MP, Judith Collins.

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This biography provides a concise, accurate, and lively account of one of the best known yet least understood figures of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee, depicting him as a human being instead of a legend, making him accessible as a person.

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A moving and personal account of a young womans experiences of the Second World War from the mother of Sir Tim Rice.

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The incredible story of Fiona Patten, in her own inimitable words. Tireless fighter, courageous activist and effective politician who really is making a difference to her world.

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Melanie McGrath's East End family memoir now in paperback.

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Focusing on his faith and his public service, the former Vice President recounts his journey to the White House, providing the inside story of the Trump Administration and how their relationship was severed when he kept his oath to the Constitution.

Lofty Large refused to give up on his military career and defied the odds, passing the SAS selection course and going on to enjoy a long and eventful career with the Special Air Service.

With that elite group Lofty served all over the world: in the mind-numbing cold, in the blazing desert heat and in sweat-drenched jungle warfare.

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These beautifully written recollections paint an evocative picture of middle-class life in Melbourne in the eary years of the twentieth century. The awakening of Fitzpatrick's feminist consciousness, her discovery at the University of Melbourne of her true vocation as a historian, and her unhappy years at Oxford are the major themes.