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Martin Heidegger: A political life

By Hugo Ott, Allan Blunden

A Soldier's Song

By Ken Lukowiak

And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi

By Eric Burner

We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent

By John Simpson

Gorbachev: Making of the Man Who Shook the World

By Gail Sheehy

Warriors of God

By Reston, James

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 2: The Young Statesman, 1901-14

By Randolph s. churchill, Martin Gilbert

Muhammad Ali: The Life of a Legend

By Fiaz Rafiq, Rasheda Ali

Peter the Great

By Robert K. Massie

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 8: Never Despair, 1945-65

By Martin Gilbert

TheWorld of Yesterday by Zweig, Stefan ( Author ) ON May-01-2010, Paperback

By Zweig, Stefan

Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant

By Barbara Hosking

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Story of their Friendship

By Colin Duriez

Meet Paul (Triangle Special S.)

By Coggan, Donald, Hope, David

Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779: A Celebration of British Craftsmanship and Design

By Adam Bowett

Hadrian: Empire and Conflict

By Thorsten Opper

Higher Than Hope: A Biography of Nelson Mandela

By Meer, Fatima

Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

By James Haley

American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century

By Paula Uruburu

The Northern Lights: How One Man Sacrificed Love, Happiness and Sanity to Unlock the Secrets of Space

By Lucy Jago

Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962: Early Years, 1918-1962 v. 1

By Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela., 12pp b/w Photographs.

Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943

By James Holland

Travel with William Wilberforce: The Friend of Humanity

By Kevin Belmonte

On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren

By Lisa Jardine (Queen Mary University of London)

The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science

By Winchester, Simon, Simon Winchester

The Seashell On The Mountaintop

By Alan Cutler

Genius of Guinness: The Enduring Legacy of an Irish Dynasty

By Guinness, Michele

Broken Biscuit

By John Cowell

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Beyond the Spitfire: The Unseen Designs of R.J. Mitchell

By Ralph Pegram