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Russia Under the Old Regime

By Richard Pipes

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

By George Prochnik

Special Tasks: Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness a Soviet Spymaster

By Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schector

Understanding Joseph Roth

By Sidney Rosenfeld, James Hardin

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

The Crown: The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977

By Robert Lacey

The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

By Victor Klemperer

To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45

By Victor Klemperer

Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica

By Duncan Mackay

The Search Warrant

By Patrick Modiano

A Good Man in Evil Times: Aristides de Sousa Mendes - The Unknown Hero Who Saved Countless Lives in WWII

By Jose-Alain Fralon, Peter Graham

Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5

By Major Robert Lyman

A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto

By Abraham Lewin, Antony Polonsky, C. Austin

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess

By James Spada

Petain's Crime: The Full Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust

By Paul Webster

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

By Serge Klarsfeld

My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank

By Jacqueline van Maarsen, Hester Velmans

Magda Goebbels

By Anja Klabunde

In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust

By Eugene L. Pogany

Commander of the Exodus

By Yoram Kaniuk, Seymour Simckes

Chosen Few HB

By Kurlansky

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

By Monica Waitzfelder, Peter Bush, Serge Klarsfeld

The City Of London Volume 2: Golden Years 1890-1914

By David Kynaston

The Skripal Files: The full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings

By Mark Urban

The Double Life Of Doctor Lopez: The Real Merchant of Venice

By Dominic Green

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

By Anne de Courcy

Dangerous Hero: Corbyn's Ruthless Plot for Power

By Tom Bower

Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent

By Christopher J. Walker

Ken: The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone

By Andrew Hosken