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One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation

By Myra MacPherson

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

By Donall MacAmhlaigh

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

By Conrad Black

Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland

By Gerry Adams

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

By Lewis, Damien

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

By Tariq Ali

Hitler's Last Days

By Gerhard Boldt, S. Bance

Secrets and Lies

By Christine Keeler

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

By David Maraniss

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

By J. M. Wilson

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

By Hunter S. Thompson

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

By Mensun Bound

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By Orlando Figes

The Origins of the Final Solution

By Christopher Browning

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

By Larry Loftis

Hitler

By Ian Kershaw

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM

To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45

By Ranfurly Countess of Ranfurly, Hermione

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

By Godwin, Peter

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

By Richard Davenport-Hines

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

Infiltration: The True Story Of The Man Who Cracked The Mafia

By Colin McLaren

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

By Nino Strachey