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Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War

By Billière, Gen. Sir Peter de la

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Mandela: The Authorised Biography

By Sampson, Anthony

The Road to Nab End : An Extraordinary Northern Childhood

By Woodruff, WILLIAM, Oakley, Ann

Foucault (Fontana Modern Masters)

By Merquior, J.G.

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives

By Bullock, Alan

Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals

By Koch, Stephen

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives

By Bullock, Alan

Allies At War: Churchill v Roosevelt v De Gaulle

By Berthon, Simon

The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years

By Lamb, Christina

Good as her Word: Selected Journalism

By Sage, Lorna, Sage, Sharon, Sage, Victor

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Hague, Ffion

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Hague, Ffion

Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44

By Glass, Charles

Bad Blood: A Memoir

By Sage, Lorna

Gordon Ramsay's Playing with Fire

By Ramsay, Gordon, Gordon Ramsay

Love and War in the Apennines

By Newby, Eric

The Third Man

By Mandelson, Peter

The Third Man

By Mandelson, Peter

The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour

By Mandelson, Peter

Mandela: The Authorised Biography

By Sampson, Anthony

The Midwife’s Here!

By Fairley, Linda

The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women’s forces

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi

My Mam Shirley (Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family)

By Shaw, Julie

Unbroken

By Hillenbrand, Laura

Why Dylan Matters

By Thomas, Richard F.

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

By Freeman, Hadley

Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys

By Evans, Peter

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

By Dallek, Emeritus Professor Robert

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

By Winchester, Simon