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The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell

By Urban, Mark

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico

By Giambattista Vico, Max Harold Fisch, Thomas Goddard Bergin

Charles Darwin: The Man and his Influence

By Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast), David Knight

Thomas Paine

By A. J. Ayer

Hope Against Hope

By Nadezhda Mandelstam

Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

By Coyne S Sanders, Tom Gilbert

Gorbachev: The Path to Power

By Christian Schmidt-Hauer, E. Osers, C. Romberg

The Time of MY Life

By Denis Healey

The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace

By Edward J. Perkins, Connie Cronley, George P. Shultz, David L. Boren

Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State

By George P. Shultz

Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back

By Moazzam Begg, Victoria Brittain

Mabel's Story

By Mabel Will, George Mann

From Newbury With Love: Letters of friendship across the Iron Curtain

By Anna Horsbrugh-Porter, Marina Aidova

Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story

By Ruth Behar

Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance

By Janet Gleeson

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By Joseph J. Ellis

Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences

By Dennis Skinner, Kevin Maguire

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By Benjamin Franklin

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The Truth at Last: My Story

By Christine Keeler

The Fallout

By Andrew Anthony

The Code Breaker

By Isaacson, Walter

John Major

By Nesta Wyn Ellis

Good Wives?

By Margaret, Forster

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

By Al Franken

Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman

By Susanne Schattenberg (University of Bremen, Germany)

The Impeachment of Richard Nixon

Jeremy Corbyn: Accidental Hero

Please Enjoy Your Happiness: A Memoir

By Paul Brinkley-Rogers