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A Late Education

By Alan moorehead

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

By Roger Osborne

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

By Gregg Herken

Einstein at Home

By Friedrich Herneck, Josef Eisinger, Alice Calaprice

Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

By Rochus Misch

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

By Laurence Rees

Heinrich Himmler

By Peter Longerich (Professor of Modern German History, Royal Holloway University of London)

The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives

By Ada Petrova, Peter Watson

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

By MacIntyre, Ben

Saddam: The Secret Life

By Con Coughlin

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Nixon, Kissinger, and US Foreign Policy Making: The Machinery of Crisis

By Asaf Siniver (University of Birmingham)

A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination

By Michael L. Morgan (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington)

Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill

By David Stafford

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

By Michela Wrong

Jacques Tati

By David Bellos

A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance

By Jonathan Ree

A Troubled See: Memoirs of a Derry Bishop

By Edward Daly

Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile

By Eugene Sheppard

The Cretan Runner

By George Psychoundakis

Burchett: Reporting the Other Side of the World

By Ben Kiernan

The Horsieman: Memories of a Traveller 1928-58

By Duncan Williamson

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: An RAF Pilot's Memoir of the Second World War

By Alastair Dyson Panton

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

In Pursuit of Spring

By Edward Thomas, Alexandra Harris

Golden Sheaves, Black Horses

By Fred Archer