Civil War Biographies

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

By Wendy Pearlman

Mary Poppins Comes Back

By P. L. Travers, Mary Shepard

Alexander the Great

By Lane Fox, Robin

The Lady And The Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma

By Popham, Peter

Balkan Odyssey

By David Owen

A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis

By David Rieff

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

Margaret the First

By Danielle Dutton

The Grassling

By Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

A Moment of War

By Laurie Lee

Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain

By David Jeremy

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

By G Pascal Zachary

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

Desert Sniper: How One Ordinary Brit Went to War Against ISIS

By Ed Nash

Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood

By Brian Sanders

Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace

By Avi Shlaim

Personal Writings

By Ignatius of Loyola, Joseph Munitiz

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

By Giles Tremlett

The Life Of Arthur Ransome

By Hugh Brogan

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Branch

My First Coup d'Etat: Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa

By John Dramani Mahama