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Truman

By David McCullough

The Will to Survive: Three and a Half Years as a Prisoner of the Japanese

By Arthur Godman

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By Loung Ung

Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway

By Reg Twigg

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

By Stella Tillyard

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By Khoo Thwe, Pascal

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

Raffles and the British Invasion of Java

By Tim Hannigan

The Edge of the Sword

By Anthony Farrar-Hockley

Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

By Neil Sheehan

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

By David Rooney

The Admiral's Baby

By Laurens Van Der Post

What It Is Like To Go To War

By Karl Marlantes

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

By Lee Kuan Yew

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

Pirates

By Ross Kemp

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

A Rumor Of War

By Philip Caputo

The Blue Door: A little girl's incredible story of survival in the Japanese POW camps of Java

By Lise Kristensen

The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

By Anna Fifield

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

By Anna Harriette Leonowens

Katya and the Prince of Siam

By Eileen Hunter, Narisa Chakrabongse

Adventures of a Young Naturalist: SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS

By Attenborough, Sir David

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

By Keggie Carew

The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner

By Barbara Victor

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By Pascal Khoo Thwe

A Noble Life: Story of Aung San Suu Kyi

By Liam Gearon

Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood

By Martin Booth