Autobiography Used Books - Here are the latest additions to the Autobiography category of the Mary Ward Used Books catalogue http://www.marywardbooks.com/categories/44.htmlFrederick Muller Ltd, 1982: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: 279 pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations . Synopsis: The autobiography of Richard Deacon, author of the histories of British, Russian, Chinese, Israeli, and Japanese Secret Services, and other books concerned with Espionage. It details his contacts in the world of espionage, made since 1943; analytical accounts of the variations in Secret Service methods; the continuing quest for moles in America, Canada, and Britain; a critical examination of British intelligence; a picture of the use of para-physical techniques; the development of psychic warfare; the inside story of penetration into the British Secret Service before the arrival of Blunt, Philby, Burgess and Maclean; and the pre-1980 infiltration of the American establishment by the Soviet Union. Condition: paper slightly tanned: small repair back dust jacket: price corner removed: overall very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0584110324.htmlEvans Bros 1966: first edition red cloth hardcover in dust jacket : 306 pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations and genealogical tables. Synopsis: An autobiography written for her grandchildren by a member of the Royal family who lived for nearly 20 years in the reign of her grandmother, Queen Victoria . At the age of 80, Princess Alice records her impressions of the members of her family, famous personalities, outstanding events, and social changes of her long life. Condition: Dust jacket edges repaired: price corner removed: red hardcover and contents clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw00129865492.html217 page account of early 19th century Indian reminiscences by Emily,Lady Clive Bayley and her father Sir Thomas Metcalfe. Illustrated in 8 colours. As New http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0906671191.htmlJohn Murray 1901, first edition: two volumes with red cloth hardcovers, gilt crests to front, gilt lettering to spines: approximately 5.8 x 9 inches tall: Volume 1, 382 pages: volume 2, 434 pages including index: black and white portraits, illustrations, and maps . Synopsis: An autobiographical account of Sir Harry Smith's life 1787 -- 1846 edited by G.C Moore Smith, with the latter's additional account of the period 1846 -- 1860. Sir Harry Smith, originality received into the Whittlesea troupe of the Yeomanry Cavalry in 1804, served in the Peninsular War, the Washington Expedition, the New Orleans Expedition, the Waterloo Campaign, Occupied France, Glasgow, , Nova Scotia, Jamaica, the Cape of Good Hope, India, the Sikh War, and as a Member of the Home Staff. During this time he was ADC to Lieutenant-General Sir James Kempt, Governor of Nova Scotia:; DQMG under Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, Governor of Jamaica; Chief of staff under Sir Benjamin D'Urbin in The Kafir War; AG to her Majesty's forces under Lieutenant-General Sir Jasper Nicolls, and Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Gough, Commanders in Chief successively in India: In Command of the First Division of Infantry in the Sikh War; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope; In Command of the Western Military District and In Command of the Northern and Midland Military Dstricts when a Member of the Home Staff. He was awarded the Order of the Bath in the following steps: -- C.B. for Waterloo. KCB from Maharajpore. GCB for Aliwal and Sobraon. He gives an account of his extraordinary activities in an easy readable style, including personal family details; the daily events of a soldiers life in the field ; the excitements of success and hardships of defeat , and the momentous events he witnessed. Condition: -- Volume 1: Spine worn and reattached: upper and lower edges of spine damaged: endpapers and frontispiece foxed: contents very clean: binding firm. Volume 2: upper and lower edge of spine worn: endpapers and frontispiece foxed: contents very clean: binding firm. Overall good and collectable http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW005555119.htmlHodder and Stoughton 1962 fourth impression: hardcover in dust jacket : 679 pages of autobiography telling andquot;what has happened to me rather than what I am or have been. It looks outwards rather than in , with an eye for advents and adventure.andquot; Condition: Dust jacket discoloured and with edges worn, book slightly mishapen and with thumb mark to title page: otherwise clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw00512.htmlAndre Deutsch 1970: first edition: hardcover in dust jacket: 110 pages: black and white photographs taken by the author, many full page. Synopsis: An autobiographical account by Astrid Bergman Sucksdorf, professional photographer, of a filming expedition to India, and her unexpected encounters with man eating tigers and leopards who were attacking people and cattle in a neighbouring village. The author, an expert markswoman, records events of overnight vigils, the excitement and fulfilment of the hunt, and village life in the mountains and jungles of Central India. The text is supported by her photographs. Condition: very clean and good overall http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0233961771.htmlRandom 1992: Decorative hardcover in matching dust jacket: 319 pages: black and white and some colour illustrations. Synopsis: A combined edition of Seasons of My Life and Daughter of the Dales, telling the story of Hannah Hauxwell's life, from a remote Pennines farm to life as a celebrity. She recalls her relations, friends and animals, along with the thriving community of Baldersdale in her youth.Comments: overall very clean and good. . Format: Hardcover. Pages: 320. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0712651144.htmlHutchinson;1995; ISBN: 0091791995 ; hardback in dust jacket; 643 pages; very clean and good / as new. immediate availability Hutchinson;1995; ISBN: 0091791995 ; hardback in dust jacket; 643 pages; very clean and good / as new. immediate availability http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0091791995.htmlFontana 1979; first paperback edition; 317 pages including index. Condition: paper slightly tanned; overall very clean and good. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0006355544.html244 pages cover worn neat pencilled notes to end paper and title page. page edges foxed otherwise clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw00903.htmlJonathan Cape 1949: first edition red cloth hardcover in dust jacket: 543 pages including index black and white illustrations and three fold -in maps. The autobiographical experiences of Brigadier Maclean, adventurer, soldier, and diplomat, who became Mr Churchill's personal representative in Europe, and in 1943 , the acquaintance, friend and champion of Yugoslavian guerrilla leader Tito. Widely believed to have been the role model for a James Bond, the author recounts a dangerous and adventurous life in Russia, the Libyan desert, and German occupied Europe. Condition dust jacket tired: red cloth hardback and contents very clean and good: a collection of newspaper cuttings featuring the author are included with the book. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW0049213777.html 399 page memoirs of H R H the Duke of Windsor. Many photograph illustrations. Very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw00688.html Collins , 1977 reprint: hardcover in dust jacket: 320 pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis : The autobiography of world renowned archaeologist, Sir Max Mallowan, whose discoveries in Mesopotamia were of prime importance, relating the stories of his boyhood at Lancing; election as Fellow of All Souls; succession to Sir Mortimer Wheeler as a Trustee of the British Museum; and his initiation into field archaeology at Ur by Leonard Woolley, who also introduced him to the famous novelist, Agatha Christie who later became his wife. The author recounts his wartime exploits in the RAF: four chapters of the book are devoted to his wife, Agatha Christie's achievements: and the climax of the memoirs relate the author's discoveries at Nimrud or Calah , the ancient capital of Assyria. Contents :-the following four parts: Part One , Before The War. 1926 - 1938. Ur - an introduction to archaeology and the excavations. Nineveh. Arpachiyah. The Habur Survey. Chagar Bazaar. Excavations at Tell Brak and the Balikh Valley. Part Two: The War, 1939 -- 1945. London and Cairo. Tripolitania. Part Three, Agatha 1930 -- 1975. Agatha: the person. Agatha's books. Orient express. Agatha's craft. Part Four : Nimrud and Its Remains 1945 -- 1975. The Institute of Archaeology. Nimrud:The Acropolis. Nimrud: Fort Shalmaneser. Academic Institutions and their Inmates. Epilogue. Index. Condition: Edges of dustjacket damaged and repared : gift inscription: overall clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0002165066.html Peter Davies, London, 1960: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: 189 pages: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The autobiography of a young Cossack who eventually enlisted in the British Army's Rifle Brigade. The author retraces the violent and turbulent events of his early life in Russia, when his father was shot by his own soldiers, and he as a White Russian volunteer crossed Siberia to China under conditions of extreme hardship. After the disintegration of the anti-Bolshevik move the author journeyed through China, selling beads made from hardened bread before reaching Hong Kong, being shipped to Siam by a friendly Norwegian Skipper, where he conceived the idea of a world tour by cycle with a camera selling photographs on the way. He travelled through Malaysian and India, Persia, Iraq, Syria and Palestine; by sea to France; by road through Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Belgium, and eventually by sea to England. After AAP service in 1939, Soboleff enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, was commissioned and served in North Africa before being transferred to Military Public Relations and working in Palestine Normandy and occupied Germany. At the close of world War Two the author became a physiotherapist in Dorset. Condition dust jacket damaged and repaired: crease to upper corner page 53: hardcover and contents clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/mw001267532.html