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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

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

By Simon Goodman

A Soldier's Song

By Ken Lukowiak

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

By Eric Burner

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

By John Simpson

Gorbachev: Making of the Man Who Shook the World

By Gail Sheehy

Warriors of God

By Reston, James

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 2: The Young Statesman, 1901-14

By Randolph s. churchill, Martin Gilbert

Muhammad Ali: The Life of a Legend

By Fiaz Rafiq, Rasheda Ali

Peter the Great

By Robert K. Massie

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 8: Never Despair, 1945-65

By Martin Gilbert

TheWorld of Yesterday by Zweig, Stefan ( Author ) ON May-01-2010, Paperback

By Zweig, Stefan

Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant

By Barbara Hosking

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Story of their Friendship

By Colin Duriez

Meet Paul (Triangle Special S.)

By Coggan, Donald, Hope, David

Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779: A Celebration of British Craftsmanship and Design

By Adam Bowett

Hadrian: Empire and Conflict

By Thorsten Opper

Higher Than Hope: A Biography of Nelson Mandela

By Meer, Fatima

Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

By James Haley

American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century

By Paula Uruburu

From Norfolk to Normandy: The Wartime Art of Captain Julian Cory-Wright RA

By Alan Marshall

Mandarin: The Diary

By Sir Nicholas Henderson

Women Who Changed The World: 50 Inspirational Stories of Struggle and Triumph

By Horton, Ros, Simmons, Sally

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness

By Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

De Gaulle: The Last Great Frenchman

By Charles Williams

Who Goes Home?: Scenes from a Political Life

By Hattersley, Roy

ISAAC NEWTON: The Last Sorcerer

By White

Introducing Darwin and Evolution

By Jonathan Miller

Red Sky at Sunrise: "Cider with Rosie", "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" and "Moment of War"

By Laurie Lee

Jan Christian Smuts - Grey Steel: A Study In Arrogance

By H.C., Armstrong