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The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson

An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical Edition

By M. K. Gandhi, Mahadev Desai, Tridip Suhrud

In Search of the Red Slave

By Mike Parker Pearson, Karen Godden

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

By Frances Osborne

The Mottled Lizard

By Elspeth Huxley

The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A Mazrui

By Omari H Kokole

In Search of Enemies: Central Intelligence Agency Story

By John Stockwell

With His Face to the Foe: The Life and Death of Louis Napoleon, The Prince Imperial Zululand 1879

By Ian Knight

Moi: The Making of an African Statesman

By Andrew Morton

Mafeking Diary: A Black Man's View of a White Man's War

By Sol T. Plaatje, John Comaroff, Brian Willan, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

Africanus Horton, 1835-83: West African Scientist and Patriot

By Christopher Fyfe

Battlefront Namibia AWS 244 (Heinemann African Writers Series)

By John Ya Otto, Ole Gjerstad, Michael Mercer

Last Guardians: Crown Service in Sudan, Northern Rhodesia and Britain

By Philip Bowcock

Kwame Nkrumah: A Political Kingdom in the Third World

By David Rooney

Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79)

When The Hills Ask For Your Blood: A Personal Stor

By David Belton

Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh

By Joyce Tyldesley

In Search of Sheba: A John Murray Journey

By Barbara Toy

Pharaoh Triumphant. The Life and Times of Ramesses II

By Kenneth Kitchen

The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

By Elspeth Huxley

Beyond No Mean Soldier: The Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator

By Peter McAleese

Out In The Midday Sun

By Elspeth Huxley

Sword of the Prophet

By Fergus Nicoll

My Country Wept: One Man's Incredible Story of Finding Faith, Hope and Forgiveness in the Burundian Civil War

By Jessica Komanapalli

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

By Robyn Scott

A Fork in the Road: A Memoir

By Brink, Andre

The Kenya Pioneers

By Trzebinski, Errol

More Than Just a Game: Football V Apartheid

By Charles P. Korr, Marvin Close