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Brecht: A Choice Of Evils

By Martin Esslin

They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

By JoAnn Levy

My Times: A Memoir of Dissent

By John Hess

The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century

By Ariane Bankes

O Brother

By John Niven

A Very Private School

By Charles Spencer

Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

By Alex Renton

Hitler's Forgotten Children: My Life Inside the Lebensborn

By Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

By Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer, David Cesarani, Lord Richard Attenborough

The Chiffon Trenches

By Andre Leon Talley

Boy oh Boy: From boys to men, be inspired by 30 coming-of-age stories of sportsmen, artists, politicians, educators and scientists

By Cliff Leek, Bene Rohlmann

Power, Treason and Plot in Tudor England: Margaret Clitherow, an Elizabethan Saint

By Tony Morgan

Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives

By Isabel Thomas, Hannah Warren

Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

By MacIntyre, Ben

Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad

By Ann Hagedorn

The New Elizabethans: Sixty Portraits of our Age

By Naughtie, James

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

By Duncan Clark

Great Uncle Fred's War: An Illustrated Diary, 1917-20

By Fred Mills, Mills, Fred, Pryor, Alan, Woods, Jennifer

Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood

By Shusha Guppy

The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey

By Antony Lerman (Bruno Kreisky Forum)

The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements

By Aung San Suu Kyi

The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive

By Richard Pipes, Y. A. Buranov

Trotsky: A Biography

By Robert Service

Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime

By D.C.B. Lieven

Khrushchev: The Years in Power

By Roy A. Medvedev, Zhores A. Medvedev

How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life

By Hellstern, Melissa

A Bundle from Britain

By Alistair Horne

Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists

By Bennett M. Berger

Narodniki Women: Russian Women Who Sacrificed Themselves for the Dream of Freedom

By Margaret Maxwell

Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh

By Petro, Pamela