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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

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

By Richard Parker

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

By Cathy Newman

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion

By Charlie Porter

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

By Christina Lamb

Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

By Collins, Jeff, Mayblin, Bill

Florence Nightingale

By Stewart Ross

Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color

By Chandler O'Leary, Jessica Spring, Jill Lepore

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

By K.Connie Kang

Flying Start: A Fighter Pilot's War Years

By Dundas, Hugh

Coming to England

By Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen

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

By Christine Mathieu, Yang E Namu

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

By Summerscale, Kate, Kate Summerscale

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

By Tilar J. Mazzeo

Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers (Routledge Key Guides)

By Tasker, Yvonne

George & Martha Washington: A Revolutionary Marriage

By Flora Fraser

Evacuee - From the Liverpool Blitz to Wales

By Barbara Davies

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

Colditz

By Chancellor, Henry

The Life Of: Levi Strauss

By Tiffany Peterson

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

By Harari, Yuval Noah

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

By Dexter Ford, Henry Oster

The Follies of Globalisation Theory: Polemical Essays

By Justin Rosenberg

Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun

By T. G. H. James