
Today We Die a Little: The Rise and Fall of Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD. The definitive biography of one of...

Persepolis I & II
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Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood tells the story of...

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War
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Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in...

Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the Fuhrer
Hellmut G. Haasis and William Odom
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Georg Elser was just a working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a...

Journey: Memoirs of an Air Force Chief of Staff
Norty Schwartz and Ron Levinson
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The General's dysfunctional home life drove him to apply to the Air Force Academy almost 40 years...

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair, Carolin Sommer and Adjoa Andoh
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'A powerful account of Teege's struggle for resolution and redemption.' Independent An international...

In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love
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A story of love and grief. 'I became a widower and a father on the same day' says Joseph Luzzi. His...

American Home Cooking: A Popular History
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American Home Cooking provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern...

Could Do Better
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Norman McGreevy's illustrated selection of schoolchildren's struggles with the pitfalls of the...

Modernity Britain: 1957-1962
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David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour...