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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., J. A. Hammerton

The Private Mary Chestnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries (Galaxy Book)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

The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme

By Roger Hutchinson

Aubrey's Brief Lives

By John Aubrey, Oliver Lawson Dick

The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher

By Thomas, Lewis

Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ

By Stone, Colapietro

Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress And a Future King

By Tomalin, Claire

Illustrated Manners and Customs of the Bible

By Packer, J. I., Tenney, Merrill C.

American Journey: Traveling With Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America

By Reeves, Richard

Koba The Dread

By Amis, Martin

Corsets To Camouflage: Women and War

By Adie, Kate

Diary of a Man in Despair

By Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Norman Stone, Paul Rubens

Bad Boy

By Myers, Walter Dean

Discovering America's Past: Customs, Legends, History & Lore of Our Great Nation

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