8 Best memoir books like Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin

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Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H…

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1. Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

By: Nicholas Shakespeare

4.09

Format: 839 pages, Kindle Edition

A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biograp… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Shakespeare's Ian Fleming: The Complete Man book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

2. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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3. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

Cover of Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly

4. Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

By: Billy Connolly

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met … read more

Similar categories in Billy Connolly's Rambling Man: My Life on the Road book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

Similar categories in James Holland's The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin

6. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

Similar categories in Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • world war i
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • audiobook
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7. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

Similar categories in Alan Partridge's Alan Partridge: Big Beacon book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • audiobook
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8. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • audiobook
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9. Munich Wolf

By: Rory Clements

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more

Similar categories in Rory Clements's Munich Wolf book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • historical
  • war
  • audiobook
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10. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Edmondson's Berserker! book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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11. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

By: Peter Ross

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more

Similar categories in Peter Ross's Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast

By: Tom Holland

3.85

Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition

Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more

Similar categories in Tom Holland's The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Lawrence of Arabia

By: Ranulph Fiennes

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pre-order the authoritative, illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the ic… read more

Similar categories in Ranulph Fiennes's Lawrence of Arabia book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • world war i
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Daniel Finkelstein

14. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

By: Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Finkelstein's Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White

15. Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission

By: Rowland White

4.51

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynam… read more

Similar categories in Rowland White's Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other by John  Preston

16. Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other

By: John Preston

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The unforgettable story, decades before Ted Lasso, of the real-life Watford Football Team, transfor… read more

Similar categories in John Preston's Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pru and Me: The Amazing Marriage of Prunella Scales and Timothy West by Timothy West

17. Pru and Me: The Amazing Marriage of Prunella Scales and Timothy West

By: Timothy West

4.44

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A heartwarming, first-hand account of one of the most celebrated marriages in the history of Britis… read more

Similar categories in Timothy West's Pru and Me: The Amazing Marriage of Prunella Scales and Timothy West book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel

18. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's My Family: The Memoir book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Precipice book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • historical
  • war
  • audiobook
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

Cover of Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country by Juliet Nicolson

20. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

Similar categories in Juliet Nicolson's Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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21. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Hotel Avocado book and Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

  • audiobook

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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4.16

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Billy Connolly

4.16

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4.17

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Jennifer Saunders

3.85

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James O'Brien

4.29

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4.16

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4.16

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