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Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain

By Dudgeon, Piers

Matron on Call: More true stories of a 1960s NHS nurse

By Woodcock, Joan

Will This Do?: The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh : an Autobiography

By Waugh, Auberon

HO CHI MINH : A Life

By William J Duiker

The Darkness and the Light: A Philosopher Reflects Upon His Fortunate Career and Those Who Made It Possible

By Hartshorne, Charles

Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks

By Zaru, Jean

The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography

By Zweig, Stefan, Zohn, Harry

Richard Aldington: A Biography

By Doyle, Charles

Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius (Stackpole Military History Series)

By Otto Carius

Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams

By Shipler, David K.

Che Guevara: a Biography: James, Daniel

By James, Daniel, Ryan, Henry Butterfield

My Last Sigh

By Bunuel, Luis

A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother's Holocaust Letters (Judaic Studies)

By Henriette Pollatschek, Renata Polt, Renata Polt

Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968

By Passerini, Luisa

Killing Freud: 20th Century Culture and the End of Psychoanalysis

By Dufresne, Todd

Tony Benn New Edition

By David Powell

The Many Lives of Miss K: Toto Koopman - Model, Muse, Spy

By Liaut, Jean-Noel, Jacobs, Denise Raab

Violette Szabo: The Life That I Have

By Susan Ottaway

Buttercup Jill

By Grayson, Peggy

Years of Change

By Soper, Mike

Pius XII and the Second World War

By Pierre S.J. Blet

This Life of Grace

By Symons, John

Roads to Berlin

By Nooteboom, Cees, Watkinson, Laura, Watkinson, Laura

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Fuller, Alexandra

The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue: How one man saved the British monarchy

By Mark Logue, Peter Conradi

Alicia: Memoirs of A Survivor

By Appleman-Jurman, Alicia

The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

By Arkady Ostrovsky

The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Chruchill

By Churchill, Sir Winston S., Halle, Kay

Life as We Have Known it (Virago Reprint Library) (Virago Reprint Library, No 1)

By Llewelyn Davies, Margaret

Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction)

By Vera Brittain, Shirley Williams, Mark Bostridge