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The World

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Martin Luther King

By Christine Hatt

The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo

By Che Guevara, Richard Gott, Patrick Camiller

Adventures in Time: Alexander the Great

By Dominic Sandbrook

The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery

By Walvin, Professor James

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

The Story of My Life

By Gilberto Pizzamiglio, Giacomo Casanova, Sophie Hawkes, Stephen Sartarelli

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

By Yousafzai, Malala, McCormick, Patricia

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

The Penguin History of Britain: A Monarchy Transformed, Britain 1630-1714: A Monarchy Transformed, Britain 1630-1714 v. 6

By Kishlansky, Mark, Mark Kishlansky

Pompey and Caesar Pupil's book

By Cambridge School Classics Project

Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

By Lauren Johnson

Collins Drama – Mean To Be Free (Plays Plus S.)

By Halpert Kraus, Joanna

100 Books that Changed the World

By Scott Christianson, Colin Salter

The Tribes Triumphant: Return Journey to the Middle East

By Charles Glass

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

By Mazower, Mark

Lenin the Dictator

By Victor Sebestyen

God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

By Jonathan D. Spence

Hard Tack and Coffee: Soldier's Life in the Civil War

By John D. Billings

Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous

By Cohen, Nick

I Sank The Bismarck

By John Moffat

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

By Ed Nash

The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

By Hughes, Bettany

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By Michael Vatikiotis

Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay And The Secret Prisons

By Stafford Smith, Clive

Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men

By Lady Antonia Fraser

Soldiers of Salamis

By Javier Cercas

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Monica Waitzfelder, Peter Bush, Serge Klarsfeld

BOOTH: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

By Karen Joy Fowler

A Rose For Winter

By Laurie Lee