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The Passionate Imperialists: the true story of Sir Frederick Lugard, anti-slaver, adventurer and founder of Nigeria, and Flora Shaw, renowned journalist for 'The Times'

By O'Grady, Rory

Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad - 35 Years in the World's War Zones

By Arnett, Peter

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End

By Field, Norma

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943

By Gabriel Gorodetsky

League of Nations

By Henig, Ruth

Winston Churchill: Politics, Strategy and Statecraft

By Toye, Richard

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

By Guha, Ramachandra

Child of Another Century: Recollections of a High Court Judge

By Ronald Waterhouse

Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

By Hannay, Alastair

Hobbes (The Routledge Philosophers)

By Martinich, A.P.

Memoirs of a Geisha (Vintage Contemporaries)

By Golden, Arthur

De Gaulle Vol II: The Ruler, 1945–1970

By Lacouture, Jean, Sheridan, Alan

The Blue Door: A little girl's incredible story of survival in the Japanese POW camps of Java

By Kristensen, Lise

An Erk's-Eye View

By Caton, Ted

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

By Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry

A Time to Speak

By Helen Lewis

Time's Witnesses: Women's Voices from the Holocaust

By Jakob Lothe, Translated by Anne Marie Hagen

Immanuel Kant: His Life and Thought

By Gulyga, Arsenij, Despalatovic, Marijan

Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience from Johannesburg to Jerusalem

By Goodman, Hirsh

Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism

By Stachura, Peter D.

Ezra Pound (Literary Lives)

By Ackroyd, Peter

Selections from the Journals (Thrift Editions)

By Thoreau, Henry David

State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (Bush at War Part 3)

By Bob Woodward, Woodward, Bob

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Waitzfelder, Monica, Klarsfeld, Serge, Bush, Peter

On Violence (Harvest Book)

By Hannah Arendt, Arendt, Hannah

King Edward VIII: An American Life

By Powell, Ted

The History of a History Man: Or, the Twentieth Century Viewed from a Safe Distance. The Memoirs of Patrick Collinson (Church of England Record Society)

By Patrick Collinson

In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen

By Tec, Nechama

The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement

By Elpeleg, Z., Himelstein, Shmuel

Bedpans And Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime

By Fox, Barbara