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Imperial War Museum Book of Victory in Europe

By JULIAN THOMPSON

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

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

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

Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

By Gordon Fraser

Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity

By Basil Mahon

Guns Up!: A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War

By Johnnie Clark

The End of Christianity

By John W. Loftus

Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk

By Susheila Nasta (Open University, UK)

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)

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

By Anita Anand

Brecht: A Choice Of Evils

By Martin Esslin

Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple

By John Sculley, John A. Byrne

The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

By Elizabeth Foyster

Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today

By Derek Owusu

The Sweethearts: Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls

By Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Rebecca Skloot, Skloot, Rebecca

Aspirin: The Extraordinary Story of a Wonder Drug

By Diarmuid Jeffreys

Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe

By Silvan S. Schweber

Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files

By Jon Wiener

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

By Paul Lawrence Rose

Slim: The Standardbearer

By Ronald Lewin

Churchill

By Ashley Jackson

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

By Robert S. Norris