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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

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology

By Jill Ker Conway

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family

By Peter Firstbrook

Alan Moorehead

By Tom Pocock

Nelson Mandela: A Biography

Great Contemporaries

By Winston Churchill

Kenneth Clarke: A Political Biography

By Andy McSmith

Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By Nick Hornby

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

By Mullin, Chris

Once a Jolly Bagman: Memoirs

By Alistair McAlpine

Sylvia Pankhurst, Citizen of the World

By Shirley Harrison, Nic Watts, Susan Homewood

Michael Heseltine: A Biography

By Michael Crick