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Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

By Harry Leslie Smith

Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Evacuee - From the Liverpool Blitz to Wales

By Barbara Davies

Shanghai's Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

By Maisie J. Meyer, Irene Eber

The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better Future

By Maria Torres

The Unknown Tutankhamun

By Marianne Eaton-Krauss (independent scholar)

Jack the Ripper--Case Solved, 1891

By J.J. Hainsworth

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead

By Heather Pringle

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

By Jason Fagone

Catherine, the Princess of Wales: The Biography: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER - The Royal Gift of the Year

By Robert Jobson

Churchill

By Ashley Jackson

Nowhere's Child: The inspiring story of how one woman survived Hitler's breeding camps and found an Irish home

By Kari Rosvall, Mrs Naomi Linehan

The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugene Boban

By Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping

Secrets from the Sand

By Zahi Hawass

Farewell To The East End

By Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Your History from the Beginning of Time to Present

By J. A. Rogers

Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk

By Susheila Nasta (Open University, UK)

Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R.Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man

By Robert S. Norris

Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe

By Silvan S. Schweber

Slim: The Standardbearer

By Ronald Lewin

Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-1945: A Study in German Culture

By Paul Lawrence Rose

Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files

By Jon Wiener

Imperial War Museum Book of Victory in Europe

By JULIAN THOMPSON

John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-Century Physics: Vision and Integrity

By Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

By Gordon Fraser

Lancaster to Berlin

By Walter Thompson

The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

By Iris Origo

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

Guns Up!: A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War

By Johnnie Clark

The End of Christianity

By John W. Loftus