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JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President

By Thurston Clarke

An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

Do the birds still sing in Hell?

By Jim Greasley Horace, Ken Scott

Walk Across America

By Peter Jenkins

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson

By Sonia Purnell

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

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 Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963

By Tim Coates

Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

By Peter Coyote

Going to the Wars

By Max Hastings

A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994

By Ian Marchant

In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

By Danny Goldberg

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision

By Bettina L. Knapp

Troublesome Young Men: the Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power in 1940 and Helped to Save Britain

By Lynne Olson

The Italians (Large Print Edition)

By John Hooper