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Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

Autobiographies

By W. B. Yeats

Close the Wicket Gate

By Johanna O'Mahony Walters, Con Houlihan

Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait

By Uri Dan

Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950

By P. Morton

Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943: The French Resistance and the Republic

By A. Clinton

Admiral Nimitz: The Commander of the Pacific Ocean Theater

By Brayton Harris

The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II

By Gregory A. Freeman

Staging International Feminisms

By E. Aston, S. Case

Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

By S. Simkin

The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy

By Ben Pimlott

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

By Sian Evans

Sukarno: A Political Biography

Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

By Richard Freiherr Von Rosen

JFK, le dernier jour

By Forestier, Francois

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

By Betty Webb, Kerry Howard

Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

SILVERTOWN: An East End family memoir

By Mcgrath

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

By Jonathan Bate

GIVING UP THE GHOST: A memoir

By Mantel, Hilary

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

By Coretta Scott King, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

By Sara Wheeler

Stalin's Silver

By John Beasant

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

By Triona Holden

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines