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Your History from the Beginning of Time to Present

By J. A. Rogers

Farewell To The East End

By Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Secrets from the Sand

By Zahi Hawass

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

By Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping

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

Churchill

By Ashley Jackson

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

By Robert Jobson

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

By Jason Fagone

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead

By Heather Pringle

Jack the Ripper--Case Solved, 1891

By J.J. Hainsworth

The Unknown Tutankhamun

By Marianne Eaton-Krauss (independent scholar)

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

By Maria Torres

Shanghai's Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

By Maisie J. Meyer, Irene Eber

Evacuee - From the Liverpool Blitz to Wales

By Barbara Davies

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

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun

By T. G. H. James

Colditz

By Chancellor, Henry

The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: A heartbreaking true story of courage and survival

By Dexter Ford, Henry Oster

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

By Harari, Yuval Noah

The Life Of: Levi Strauss

By Tiffany Peterson

John Kenneth Galbraith and the Making of American Economics: His Life, His Politics, His Economics

By Richard Parker

George & Martha Washington: A Revolutionary Marriage

By Flora Fraser

Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers (Routledge Key Guides)

By Tasker, Yvonne

Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis

By Tilar J. Mazzeo

Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

By Summerscale, Kate, Kate Summerscale

Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World

By Christine Mathieu, Yang E Namu

Coming to England

By Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen

Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years

By Dundas, Hugh

Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: A Saga of a Korean-American Family

By K.Connie Kang

Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color

By Chandler O'Leary, Jessica Spring, Jill Lepore