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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

By Prose, Francine

The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder

By Modiano, Patrick

The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Africa's Most Controversial Leader

By Smith, Ian Douglas

Death of a President

By Manchester, WILLIAM

John Osborne: A Patriot for Us

By Heilpern, John

A A Very English Scandal: Now a Major BBC Series Starring Hugh Grant

By Preston, John

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries

By Suad Amiry

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

By Payne, Robert

Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop Stewardess

By Jessop, Violet, Maxtone-Graham, John

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

By Carter, Miranda

Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy

By MacIntyre, Ben

A Pictorial History of Joseph Stalin

By Nigel Blundell

War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944

By Tony Redding

In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

By Karmi, Ghada

We Were Young and at War: The first-hand story of young lives lived and lost in World War Two

By Wallis, Sarah, Palmer, Svetlana

Intimate Voices from the First World War

By Palmer, Svetlana, Wallis, Sarah

The Escape of Sigmund Freud

By Cohen, David

Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters

By Elborough, Travis

Tales of the Old Countrymen

By Martin, Brian P.

The World That Was Ours (Persephone Classics)

By Bernstein, Hilda

The Forgotten Soldier: War on the Russian Front - A True Story

By Sajer, Guy

Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

By Rappaport, Helen

The Last American Diplomat: John D Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy (International Library of Twentieth Century History)

By George W. Liebmann

A Journey

By Tony Blair

The Real Diana

By Campbell, Colin

Full Disclosure

By Neil, Andrew

Churchill: The Unexpected Hero

By Addison, Paul

Death's Men: Soldiers Of The Great War

By Winter, Denis

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia

By Michele Hanson

A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

By Jean Lucey Pratt, Simon Garfield