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Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vesubie and Their Flight Through France and Italy

By Zuccotti, Susan

The Journey Back from Hell: Memoirs of Concentration Camp Survivors

By Gill, Anton

I Remember Nothing More

By Szwajger, Adina Blaby

From the Pyramids to Tutankhamun: Memoirs of an Egyptological Life

By Edwards, I.E.S.

London's Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

By Gillian Pugh

The Wilder Shores Of Love

By Blanch, Lesley

Christmas at the Ragdoll Orphanage

By Lambert, Suzanne

Conversations with Green Gurus: The Collective Wisdom of Environmental Movers and Shakers

By Mazur, Laura, Miles, Louella

A Nice Girl Like Me

By Boycott, Rosie

The Five Giants [New Edition]: A Biography of the Welfare State

By Timmins, Nicholas

Lost and Found in Russia: Encounters in a Deep Heartland

By Susan Richards

And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and the Glove Maker - A True Story of Love, Loss and Betrayal

By Christopher Ward

The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women’s forces

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi

Revolution, Democracy, Socialism: Selected Writings: 02 (Get Political)

By Lenin, V. I., Le Blanc, Paul

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday (Vintage): Gertrude Ma Rainey

By Davis, Angela Y.

Joshua Chamberlain: The Soldier and the Man

By Longacre, Edward

The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China

By Eimer, David

The Lance and the Shield: Life and Times of Sitting Bull

By Utley, Robert M.

The Private Mary Chestnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries (Galaxy Book)

By Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth, Woodward, C. Vann

Diary of a Union Lady, 1861-1865

By Daly, Maria Lydig, Hammond, Harold Earl, Berlin, Jean V.

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1750-1832

By Tillyard, Stella

William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner

By Hague, WILLIAM

A Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa

By Sapolsky, Robert M

The Reinvention of Humanity: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender

By King, Charles

The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea

By Jones, Nicolette

A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream

By Lacey, Nicola

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George

The War After

By Karpf, Anne

The Two Zions: Reminiscences of Jerusalem and Ethiopia

By Ullendorff, Edward

Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods, 732-332 Bce (Anchor Bible Reference Library)

By Mazar, Amihai, Stern, Ephraim