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Roosevelt

By Roy Jenkins, Arthur M. Schlesinger

Something in India

By Fraser Noble

Fidel: A Critical Portrait

By Tad Szulc

Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

By Walter Cronkite, Maurice Isserman

The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death

By Bailey, Catherine

Sharon And My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries

By Suad Amiry

A Venetian Affair: A true story of impossible love in the eighteenth century

By Andrea Di Robilant

Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler

By Svenja O'Donnell

Christmas Around the Village Green: In a WWII 1940s rural village, family means the world at Christmastime

By Dot May Dunn

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

By Timothy Garton Ash

Burma: The Longest War, 1941-45

By Louis Allen

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By James McBride

The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler

By John D. Lukacs

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man

By Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh

Robin Cook: Principles and Power

By John Williams

Blair

By Anthony Seldon

Ghandi

By James Brown

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (Penguin Press History)

By Kershaw, Ian

In Search of Churchill

By Martin Gilbert

Castles Burning

By Magda Denes

The Angel of Charleston: Grace Higgens, Housekeeper to the Bloomsbury Set, 1920-1970

By Stewart MacKay

Colored People: A Memoir

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Real Mrs Miniver: The Life of Jan Struther

By Ysenda Maxtone-Graham

The Sailor in the Wardrobe

By Hugo Hamilton

A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile: Love, Hardship and Laughter in a South East London Fish-and-Chip Shop

By Hilda Kemp, Cathryn Kemp

Counting One's Blessings: The Collected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By Shawcross

University Politics: F. M. Cornford's Cambridge and his Advice to the Young Academic Politician

By Gordon Johnson (University of Cambridge)

And the Band Played On: The enthralling account of what happened after the Titanic sank: The enthralling account of what happened after the Titanic sank

By Christopher Ward

1924: The Year That Made Hitler

By Peter Ross Range

Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

By Pietro Pinti, Jenny Bawtree