Best Autobiography

[HitRed]

Interested in your best list of first hand recounts of interesting history.


Saburo Sakai

[Lonous]

If you enjoyed Samurai you should also read Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis
/recommend

[riskllama]

cash by Johnny Cash.

[Votanic]

Herodotus. He did it first.

... and he saw the Pyramids back when they were still smooth and shiny.

The pyramid itself was twenty years in the making. Its base was square, each side eight hundred feet long, and its height is the same; the whole is of stone polished and most exactly fitted; there is no block of less than thirty feet in length.