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Stepan Anastasovich Mikoyan: Memories of Military Test-flying and Life with the Kremlin's Elite

By Stepan A. Mikoyan (author)

Harry’s War

By Drinkwater, Harry, Cooksey, Jon

Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist

By Ferguson, Niall

Alan Beith: A View from the North

By Alan Beith

The Last Waltz: The Strauss Dynasty and Vienna

By John Suchet

Against the Grain

By Norman Baker

Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller

By Moore, Captain Tom

Gordon Brown: ‘As a psychological profile, an exploration of personal ambition and a study of political obsession driven by religious angst, this biography is gripping’ Daily Telegraph

By Bower, Tom

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym: A Times Book of the Year 2021

By Byrne, Paula

Walter Benjamin for Beginners

By Caygill, Howard; Coles, Alex; Cargill, Howard; Kilmowski, Andrzej; Appiggnanesi

The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Dunlop, Tessa

To War with Whitaker: 13 (Pan Heritage Classics, 13)

By Ranfurly Countess of Ranfurly, Hermione

Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal

By Ian Smith

Welcome Home

By Wicks, Ben

Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts

By Simon Jenkins, Jenkins, Simon

Fidel Castro: A Biography

By Foss, Clive

After Fidel: Raul Castro And The Future Of Cuba's Revolution

By Latell, Brian

The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song

By Davison, Caroline

The Best and the Brightest

By Halberstam, David

Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

By Moorehead, Caroline

Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident

By McCloskey

A Fortunate Life

By Paddy Ashdown

Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity

By Macias, Monica

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

By Godwin, Peter

Alan Clark: The Biography

By Trewin, Ion

Portrait of a People: A Personal Photographic Record of the South African Liberation Struggle

By Weinberg, Eli

Vietnam: A Portrait of Its People at War

By Chanoff, David, Toai, Doan Van

Diana: The Making of a Saint

By Harrison, Ted

Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952

By Hadaway, Stuart

Milena

By Buber-Neumann, Margarete, Manheim, R.