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The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop

By E.E. Dunlop, Dunlop, E.E.

The Sleeping Buddha

By Hamida Ghafour

Rwanda: The Land God Forgot?

By Guillebaud, Meg

Spitfire Women of World War II

By Whittell, Giles

A Crowd Is Not Company

By Kee, Robert

Bomber Command

By Hastings, Sir Max

Bomber Command (Pan Grand Strategy)

By Sir Max Hastings, Hastings, Sir Max

The Nehrus and the Gandhis: An Indian Dynasty (Picador Books)

By Beckett, Samuel, Ali, Tariq

In the Wake of Mercedes Gleitze: Open Water Swimming Pioneer

By Doloranda Pember

Her Ladyship's Girl: A Maid's Life in London

By Anwyn Moyle

Twice Around the Bay

By Hall, Christina

A Journey

By Blair, Tony

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

By Of Carnarvon, Countess

Final Entries 1945: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels

By Joseph Goebbels

Nietzsche for Beginners (A Writers & Readers beginners documentary comic book)

By Sautet, Marc

In Hitler's Bunker - A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days

By Lehmann, Armin, Carroll, Tim

With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic (Pacific TV Tie in)

By E.B. Sledge, Sledge, Eugene B

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

By Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson

The Old Devil: Clarence Darrow: The World's Greatest Trial Lawyer

By McRae, Donald

Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century

By Allen, Charles; (editor), Charles, Charles Allen

Pakistan: A Personal History

By Khan, Imran

A Scientific Companion to Robert Frost (Clemson University Press)

By Virginia Smith

Return to Paris: A Memoir with Recipes

By Rossant, Colette

Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination

By Zagajewski, Adam, Vallee, Lillian

The Heroines of Soe: F Section: Britain's Secret Women in France: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Escott

Shot Down and on the Run: The RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Who Got Home from Behind Enemy Lines, 1940-1945

By Pitchfork, Air Commodore Graham, Hodges, Sir Lewis

Lady Under Fire on The Western Front: The Great War Letters of Lady Dorothie Feilding MM

By Andrew Hallam, Nicola Hallam

Gandhi (Profiles In Power)

By Arnold, David

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

By Thompson, Nicholas

My Life in France

By Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme