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

By Victor Klemperer

Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E.Lawrence

By J. M. Wilson

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

By David Maraniss

Secrets and Lies

By Christine Keeler

Hitler's Last Days

By Gerhard Boldt, S. Bance

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

By Tariq Ali

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland

By Gerry Adams

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

By Conrad Black

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

By Donall MacAmhlaigh

Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation

By Myra MacPherson

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson

By Sonia Purnell

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

Walk Across America

By Peter Jenkins

Do the birds still sing in Hell?

By Jim Greasley Horace, Ken Scott

An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President

By Thurston Clarke

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging

By David Cesarani

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

By Anne de Courcy

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

Hitler: 1936-45 : Nemesis

By Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield)

In Thier Own Words: Untold Stories from the First World War

Judas

By Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange

Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent

By Christopher J. Walker

My American Century

By Studs Terkel, Robert Coles

My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank

By Jacqueline van Maarsen, Hester Velmans