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Presents the life of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Maine during the eighteenth century, by drawing on the detailed diary she kept for twenty-seven years of her life.

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A fascinating character analysis of some of the most recognisable historical figures, pitching lives and minds against each other, from Churchill vs Lincoln to Darwin vs Watson.

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Through Elena's captivating voice, we learn not only the personal story of Russia in the second half of the twentieth century, but also the story of one rebellious citizen whose love of a foreign language finally transports her to a new world.

'This moving memoir made me cry'
The New York Times

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With the help of surviving relatives and hundreds of previously unknown family photographs, Derek Niemann uncovers the true story of what his grandfather Karl really did. A Nazi in the Family is an illuminating portrayal of how ordinary people can fall into the service of a monstrous regime.

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An extraordinary testament to honor and heroism, this is the amazing true story of a highly decorated Korean and Vietnam veteran, military advisor, and renowned expert on America's elite Airborne Rangers.

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In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. This book tells his story.

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Lance Corporal Neville 'Timber' Wood was among the last British soldiers to be evacuated from Dunkirk, he served in North Africa and Sicily, took part in the D-Day landings and witnessed the horror of Bergen-Belsen. This is his extraordinary story.

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A biography of Israel's most iconic and controversial statesman.

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A loving but clear-eyed portrait of a family and an era, this is Victoria Glendinning's first book.

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A story, in which the author takes us on a journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother.

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The story of Philip Snow's time as Bursar of Rugby School during the 1950s. It reads like a social history of the times, since he found himself rubbing shoulders with eminent figures from a variety of fields - cricket, arts and letters, politics, the armed services, the law, academia and royalty.

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Classic account of an idyllic childhood in Italy, under the shadow of approaching war.

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The International Bestseller The inspiration for Impeachment: American Crime Story

The definitive account of the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandals, A Vast Conspiracy casts an insightful eye over the extraordinary ordeal that nearly brought down a president.

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A story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe and saw a woman born to indulgence and selfishness sacrifice everything for love - only to be betrayed

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The extraordinary letters and diaries of Captain Alexander Stewart, who served during the First World War - a vivid and moving picture of trench warfare.

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The most candid and revealing political diary for years, which can be read for pleasure and not merely political insights.

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Afghanistan & Iraq is a brief memoir of an American Rifleman's service during the early days of the Global War on Terror.

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But it is also a story of great courage, the moving story of a proud woman, a woman who did not want to be banished to a life behind the walls of her house, or told how to dress, who wanted an education for her children so that they could have a chance of a future, to live their lives without fear and poverty.

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The extraordinary personal story of Senator Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts), a man who, against all odds, rose up to become one of America's most surprising and promising new political figures.

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A riveting account of what it meant to be a homosexual in 1950s Britain, by a central figure in the infamous Montagu Case - a landmark in the gay history of Britain.

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