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We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent

By John Simpson

And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi

By Eric Burner

A Soldier's Song

By Ken Lukowiak

The Orpheus Clock: the search for my family's art treasures stolen by the Nazis

By Simon Goodman

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

By Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith

John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spirit

By David L. Edwards

Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There

By Bailey, Roderick

Master Mariner: A Life Under Way

By Philip Rentell

At Sea Level

By G.W. Searle

Khrushchev Remembers: v.3

By Nikita S. Khrushchev, Jerrold L Schecter, V. Luchkov, Strobe Talbott

My Early Life: A Roving Commission

By Winston S. Churchill

Pride and Perjury

By Aitken, Jonathan

A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory

By Jeffrey Archer

Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

By Robert Hutton

The Intelligence Game: The Illusions and Delusions of International Espionage

By James Rusbridger

Semi-detached

By John Biffen

Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement

By Graham Greene

Adventures and Inventions of Stewart Blacker

By Barnaby Blacker

Princess: True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

By Sasson, Jean, Jean P. Sasson

David Blunkett: On a Clear Day

By David Blunkett

Sailing Alone around the World

By Joshua Slocum, Thomas Philbrick

Michael Collins: A Biography

By Tim Pat Coogan

For The Love Of Anthony: A Mother's Search for Truth after the London Bombings

By Marie Fatayi-Williams

Hostage

By Paul Chandler, Rachel Chandler, Sarah Edworthy

Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

By Sandeep Jauhar

Cameron: Practically a Conservative

By Francis Elliott, James Hanning

Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man

By Richard Stengel

The Autobiography

By Benjamin Franklin

Battling for Peace: Memoirs

By Shimon Peres

The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology

By Alan Heimert, Andrew Delbanco