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Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914

By Taj al-Saltana

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

By Raja Shehadeh

Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Lions and for Africa.

By Tony Fitzjohn

Bravo Two Zero: The Harrowing True Story of a Special Forces Patrol Behind the Lines in Iraq

By Andy McNab

Eight Lives Down

By Chris Hunter

The Long Night: A True Story

By Ernst Israel Bornstein

Jesus: pocket GIANTS

By Ed Kessler

The One That Got Away

By Chris Ryan

Desert Warrior

By Patrick Seale

Buster: The dog who saved a thousand lives

By RAF Police Sergeant Will Barrow, Isabel George

Under the Wire

By Paul Conroy

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland

The Bookseller Of Kabul

By SEIERSTAD ASNE, Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

The Insider: Trapped In Saddam's Brutal Regime

By Ala Bashir

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

By Clarissa Ward

Some Other Rainbow

By John McCarthy, Jill Morrell

Curzon's Persia

By George Nathaniel Curzon, P. King

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert

By Gertrude Bell

A Winter on the Nile

By Anthony Sattin

The Gates of Gaza: a story of betrayal, survival, and hope in Israel's borderlands

By Amir Tibon

Blind Flight

By Brian Keenan

Full Battle Rattle: My Story as the Longest-Serving Special Forces A-Team Soldier in American History

By Changiz Lahidji, Ralph Pezzullo

The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA

By Antonio J Mendez

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

By Christina Lamb

Sailing Through Acts: Across the Mediterranean in the Wake of St Paul

By Linford Stutzman

Erdogan Rising: a Warning to Europe

By Hannah Lucinda Smith

Jerusalem: The Biography

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hannah Hurnard: The Authorized Biography : the Story Behind the Spiritual Classic Hind's Feet on High Places

By John Wood

The One That Got Away

By Ryan, Chris