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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

By Bill Bryson

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

By Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

Berlin Seit dem Kriegsende

By Helmut Peitsch, Rhys W. Williams

Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The historical transformation of labor in the United States

By David M. Gordon, Richard Edwards, Michael Reich

The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War

By Trevor Royle

War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs

By Tim Coates

Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

By Niall Ferguson

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

By Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Frederick

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy

By Glenn Hastedt

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

By Greg Grandin (New York University)

The Florida Life of Thomas Edison

By Michele Wehrwein Albion

No Place to Hide, 1946-84

By David Bradley, Jerome B. Wiesner

Plan of Attack: The Road to War

By Woodward, Bob

The Lost Diary of Annie Oakley’s Wild West Stagehand

By Dickinson, Clive

The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its World Impact

By Jonathan I. Israel (Princeton University, New Jersey)

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

By Michael Holroyd

The Few: July-October 1940

By Alex Kershaw

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics

By L. Carl. Brown

Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church

By Richard Firth Green

The Book Of Life

By Sojourner Truth

From Protest to Challenge, Volume 5: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990: Nadir and Resurgence, 1964-1979

By Thomas G. Karis, Gail M. Gerhart

The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

By Heath Hardage Lee

Scream of Eagles

By Robert K Wilcox

Twelve Days: Revolution 1956. How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters

By Sebestyen, Victor

One Bullet Away: The making of a US Marine Officer

By Nathaniel Fick

1916: The Easter Rising

By Tim Pat Coogan

American Cipher: One Soldier's Nightmare in the Afghanistan War

By Matt Farwell, Michael Ames

A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power

By Professor James Walvin

A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers

By Jeremy Black

Don't Shoot The Clowns: War and the Circus in Iraq

By Jo Wilding