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The King of Vodka: A Family's Story of Triumph and Tragedy

By Himelstein, Linda

Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States

By Sheila Rowbotham

Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics)

By Gershom Scholem

Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag

By Janusz Bardach

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

By Payne, Robert

Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop Stewardess

By Jessop, Violet, Maxtone-Graham, John

The River Sea: The Amazon in History, Myth, and Legend

By De Bruhl, Marshall

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

By Carter, Miranda

Alexandria the Last Tsarina: The Tragic Story of the Last Empress of Russia

By Erickson, Carolly

Jasper Tudor: Tudor Dynasty

By Breverton, Terry

Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy

By MacIntyre, Ben

A Pictorial History of Joseph Stalin

By Nigel Blundell

The Examinations of Anne Askew (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)

By Beilin, Elaine V.

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Guha, Ramachandra

Elizabeth I (Reputations)

By Palmer, Michael

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

By Davenport-Hines, Richard

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust

By Hahn Beer, Edith, Dworkin, Susan

Seek The Frozen Lands: Irish Polar Explorers 1740-1922

By Nugent, Frank

The Life and Times of William I (Kings & Queens of England S.)

By Ashley, Maurice

Gresham's Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker

By Guy, John

Diana: A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage

By Davies, Nicholas

Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman

By Sharpe, James

The Diary of John Evelyn

By Eve, John

M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster

By Hemming, Henry

Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography

By Hamilton, Ian

Intimate Voices from the First World War

By Palmer, Svetlana, Wallis, Sarah

The Children's House at Belsen

By Verolme, Hetty

Speaking Out: Lessons in Life and Politics

By Balls, Ed

The Escape of Sigmund Freud

By Cohen, David

Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (Society and the Sexes in the Modern World)

By Pedersen, Susan