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Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Grady, Stephen, Wright, Michael

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Stephen Grady, Michael Wright

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

By Avey, Denis, Broomby, Rob

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography

By Shawcross, WILLIAM

Another Man's Shoes

By Somme, Sven

Sixty Years on: 1944-1945 Remembered

By David Arnold, Vera Lynn

Moondrop to Gascony

By Anne Marie Walters

Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad

By Oliver Poole

The First Communist in Fort Jameson: Recollections of Africa and other places 1955-2018

By Watt, Nigel

Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union

By Anionwu, Elizabeth N

M. I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and his Impact (Cambridge Classical Studies)

By Jew, Daniel, Osborne, Robin, Scott, Michael

A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (Vintage)

By French, Howard W

Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust

By Immaculée Ilibagiza

Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler

By Simon Dunstan, Gerrard Williams

Ted Hughes: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

By Roberts, Neil

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates

By John A. Kirk

The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad

By Simpson, John

Madam Secretary: A Memoir

By Madeleine Albright, Bill Woodward

The Cypress Tree

By Mohammadi, Kamin

Trains and Buttered Toast

By Betjeman, John

The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

By Davies, Hunter

Infidel

By Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

By Alex Von Tunzelmann

Thatcher Stole My Trousers

By Sayle, Alexei

Maggie & Me

By Barr, Damian

Maggie & Me

By Barr, Damian

Billy Brown Tell Your Mother

By Brown, Bill

Left For Dead: 30 Years On - The Race is Finally Over

By Ward, Nick, O'Brien, Sinéad

The Riviera Set

By Lovell, Mary S.

Young Stalin

By Simon Sebag Montefiore