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Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation

By Myra MacPherson

Tin Ring: Love and Survival in the Holocaust

By Zdenka Fantlova

The Italians (Large Print Edition)

By John Hooper

Troublesome Young Men: the Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power in 1940 and Helped to Save Britain

By Lynne Olson

Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision

By Bettina L. Knapp

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

By Danny Goldberg

A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994

By Ian Marchant

Going to the Wars

By Max Hastings

Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

By Peter Coyote

The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963

By Tim Coates

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance

By Mensun Bound

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976

By Hunter S. Thompson

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

Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

By Janina Bauman

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

By Claude Lanzmann, Adriana Hunter (Author), Frank Wynne (Translator)

Anais: Erotic Life of Anais Nin

By Noel Riley Fitch

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books)

By Thompson, Hunter S.

The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

By Vieda Skultans

The Long Gray Line

By Rick Atkinson

Spitfire: The Autobiography

By Jon E. Lewis