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Jan Morris: A Life
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Woman of Her Time
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941–1945
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The Kremlin’s Long Reach
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy
By Josh Ireland
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1929: The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
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From Myanmar to Manhattan
Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations, and the Untold Story of the 1960s
By Thant Myint-U
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Tale of Two Allies
The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle
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Diamonds & Bust
The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes
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Land of Dopes & Tories
The Benson Diaries: Selections from the Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson
By Eamon Duffy & Ronald Hyam (edd)
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Tinker, Tailor, Sleeper, Troll
The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West
By Shaun Walker
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The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
By Charlie English
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Queen of Peking
Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson
By Paul French
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Mass Murderers with PhDs
Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich
By Richard J Evans
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Wizard of Westminster
Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost His Government
By Damian Collins
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Bones of Contention
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
By Michael Taylor
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Freak Shows, Peepshows & Sunday School
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
By Alwyn Turner
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Ticket to Ride but No Trains
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962–65
By David Kynaston
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Taipans, Pirates and Courtesans
Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
By Vaudine England
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I Believe in Yesterday
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By Timothy Garton Ash
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Delusions of Grandeur
How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–2022
By Arthur Snell
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Margaret Thatcher As I Knew Her
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By Henry Kissinger
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