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The Jewish Contribution to the 20th Century

By Alan Symons

The Sephardi Story: Celebration of Jewish History

By Chaim Raphael

Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman

By Shulamit Volkov

Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year

By Alexandra Shulman

Disraelis Jewishness

By Tony Kushner, Todd M. Endelman

The Life and Work of S. M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History

By Sophie Dubnov-Erlich

Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews

By Smith, Michael

The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land

By Patrick Bishop

Putting God Second: How to Save Religion from Itself

By Donniel Hartman

Warrior: An Autobiography

By Ariel Sharon, David Chanoff

Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank

By Schloss, Eva, Kent, Evelyn Julia

The Best Defense: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

By Douglas Feith

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

By Norman Mailer

Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket

By Fay, Stephen, Kynaston, David

My Feudal Lord

By Tehmina Durrani

Kings Mistress, Queens Servant The Life and Times of Henrietta

By Tracy Borman

Mozart: The Golden Years 1781-1791

By H. C. Robbins Landon

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Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League 1992-2004

By Paul McCarthy, Alan Shearer

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

By John Henry Phillips

CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

By John L Williams

Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War

By Dr. Ronald Blythe

The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family

By Helen Rappaport

Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy

By Anna Politkovskaya

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

By George Prochnik

Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

By Volker Weidermann, Carol Brown Janeway

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Chang Jung & Halliday Jon, Chang, Jung, Halliday, Jon

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

Going to the Match: The Passion for Football: The Perfect Gift for Football Fans

By Duncan Hamilton

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Michelle Dean