Social & Urban History Biographies

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

By Susannah Gora

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

By Brandon R. Brown (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of San Francisco)

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Midge Gillies

Unbroken

By Hillenbrand, Laura

Memoirs of a Goldfish: Experiences of a World War II Bomber Pilot and POW

By Jim Burtt-Smith

Dad's Army: The Story of a Classic Television Show

By McCann, Graham

Paper Cuts: A Memoir

By Stephen Bernard (Author)

Moonless Night: Wartime Diary of a Great Escaper

By B. A. James

Desperate Romantics

By Moyle, Franny

Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By von Boeselager, Philipp

Vermilion Gate: An Extraordinary Story of Growing Up in Communist China

By Mu, Aiping

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

By Xinran, Nicky Harman

Pon My Puff!: A Childhood in 1920s Isle of Wight

By Dr. Charles M Lansley, Peter Stark Lansley

The Deals that Made the World

By Jacques Peretti

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

By Arthur Waley, Dennis Washburn

The Happy Valley

On Time: Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast

By Catherine Blyth

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

In My Life: A Music Memoir

By Alan Johnson

Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; Candleford Green (Modern Classics)

By Thompson, Flora, Massingham, H., Flora Thompson, Adobe

Eye of the Storm: Twenty-Five Years In Action With The SAS: 25 Years in Action with the SAS

By Ratcliffe, Peter

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

By Kate Colquhoun

The Lost Diary of Annie Oakley’s Wild West Stagehand

By Dickinson, Clive

Tales From The King's African Rifles (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)

By Nunneley, John

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Dame Vera Lynn, Virginia Lewis-Jones

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews

By Benny Morris

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

By Ezra F. Vogel

Conversations with Roger Scruton

By Mark Dooley, Sir Roger Scruton