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Gordon Brown: The First Year in Power

By Hugh Pym, Nick Kochan

Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

By Thomas Goltz

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Gillian Slovo

Last Letters Home

By Tamasin Day-Lewis

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

By Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Frederick

Ten Years at Hitler's Side: The Testimony of Wilhelm Keitel

Hitler's Enforcers: Leaders of the German War Machine, 1939-45

By James Lucas

Letters from a Bomber Pilot

By David Hodgson

No Ordinary Pilot: One young man's extraordinary exploits in World War II

By Suzanne Campbell-Jones

Doctor's Occupation

By John Lewis

Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

By Lee Trimble, Jeremy Dronfield

Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

By Leigh Fermor, Patrick

Lost Voices of the Royal Air Force

By Max Arthur

Moonless Night: Wartime Diary of a Great Escaper

By B. A. James

The Soldier Who Came Back

By Steve Foster, Alan Clark

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

By Harry Pardoe

Boldness Be My Friend

By Richard Pape

Gurdjieff and Mansfield

By James Moore

If This Is a Man / The Truce

By Levi, Primo, Woolf, Stuart, Primo Levi

The Happy Valley

Visionaries of the 20th Century: A Resurgence Anthology

By Satish Kumar, Freddie Whitefield

Samira & Samir

By Siba Shakib

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Martin Luther King Jr

6 Rainier Drive

By Debbie Macomber

The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews

By Benny Morris

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

By Ezra F. Vogel

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

By Simon Kuper

The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies

By Noreen Riols

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

By Michael Holroyd

Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

By Fawaz A. Gerges