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Higher Than Hope: A Biography of Nelson Mandela

By Meer, Fatima

Khrushchev Remembers: v.3

By Nikita S. Khrushchev, Jerrold L Schecter, V. Luchkov, Strobe Talbott

At Sea Level

By G.W. Searle

Master Mariner: A Life Under Way

By Philip Rentell

Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There

By Bailey, Roderick

John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spirit

By David L. Edwards

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

By Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith

The Orpheus Clock: the search for my family's art treasures stolen by the Nazis

By Simon Goodman

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

John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science

By Jack Morrell

Suleiman the Magnificent

By Andre Clot

Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion

By Andrew Robinson

John Wesley

By Stephen Tomkins

Newton: the Liberator

By John Pollock

Paul Dirac: The Man and his Work

By Abraham Pais (Rockefeller University, New York), Maurice Jacob (Conseil Europeen de Recherches Nucleaires, Geneva), David I. Olive (University of Wales, Swansea), Michael F. Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)

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

By Winchester, Simon, Simon Winchester