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24 titles for readers of Seminary Boy by John Cornwell, selected for shared themes: Biography & Autobiography.

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Unti Rosenberg Memoir

Justus Rosenberg

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

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Moscow 1812 Napoleon’s Fatal March

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Cretan Runner — George Psychoundakis

The Cretan Runner

George Psychoundakis

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

How I Came to Know Fish — Ota Pavel

How I Came to Know Fish

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Roses from the Earth The Biography of Anne Frank — Carol Ann Lee

Roses from the Earth The Biography of Anne Frank

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

George V Never a Dull Moment — Jane Ridley

George V Never a Dull Moment

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Wiser in Battle A Soldier’s Story — Ricardo S. Sanchez

Wiser in Battle A Soldier’s Story

Ricardo S. Sanchez

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Personality and Power Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe — Ian Kershaw

Personality and Power Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Flames in the Field The Story of Four SOE Agents in Occupied France — Rita Kramer

Flames in the Field The Story of Four SOE Agents in Occupied France

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

France on Trial The Case of Marshal Pétain — Julian Jackson

France on Trial The Case of Marshal Pétain

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

An Altar in the World A Geography of Faith — Barbara Brown Taylor

An Altar in the World A Geography of Faith

Barbara Brown Taylor

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Moments of Reprieve — Primo Levi

Moments of Reprieve

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

My Happy Days In Hell — György Faludy

My Happy Days In Hell

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Darkest Hour How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink — Anthony McCarten

Darkest Hour How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

Anthony McCarten

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Most Secret War — R.V. Jones

Most Secret War — R.V. Jones

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Lives of Roman Christian Women — Carolinne White

Lives of Roman Christian Women

Carolinne White

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

First Confession A Sort of Memoir — Chris Patten

First Confession A Sort of Memoir

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Masters and Commanders The Military Geniuses Who Led The West To Victory In World War II — Andrew Roberts

Masters and Commanders The Military Geniuses Who Led The West To Victory In World War II

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

God the Bestseller How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time — Stephen Prothero

God the Bestseller How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time

Stephen Prothero

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire The Demise of a Superpower, 1944-47 — Peter Clarke

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire The Demise of a Superpower, 1944-47

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Where Have All the Bullets Gone? — Spike Milligan

Where Have All the Bullets Gone?

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Next Moon — Andre Hue

The Next Moon — Andre Hue

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

A Question of Loyalty Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation — Douglas C. Waller

A Question of Loyalty Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation

Douglas C. Waller

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

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