Best 20th Century British (U.K.) History - 3.7 Stars and Up

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Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck 3.78 avg rating — 55,032 ratings
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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain 4.09 avg rating — 8,331 ratings
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II 4.18 avg rating — 961 ratings
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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes 4.30 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Black and British: A Forgotten History
Black and British: A Forgotten History 4.60 avg rating — 4,326 ratings
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship 4.16 avg rating — 8,447 ratings
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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging 4.31 avg rating — 6,246 ratings
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The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation
The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
by: Akala
4.54 avg rating — 21,683 ratings
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England, the 1960s, and the Triumph of The Beatles
England, the 1960s, and the Triumph of The Beatles 4.30 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children 4.32 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain
Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain 4.09 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II 4.24 avg rating — 678 ratings
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
by: Mar Hicks
4.11 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army
The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army 4.12 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe 3.83 avg rating — 77 ratings
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No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I 4.10 avg rating — 1,199 ratings
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Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War
Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War 3.77 avg rating — 892 ratings
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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War 4.31 avg rating — 6,886 ratings
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1966: The Year the Decade Exploded
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded 4.08 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour 4.28 avg rating — 8,510 ratings
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War's Forgotten Women: British Widows of the Second World War
War's Forgotten Women: British Widows of the Second World War 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952
The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952 4.15 avg rating — 529 ratings
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The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners
The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners 4.15 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by: Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating — 13,387 ratings
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The Cold War in South Asia: Britain, the United States and the Indian Subcontinent, 1945–1965
The Cold War in South Asia: Britain, the United States and the Indian Subcontinent, 1945–1965 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain 4.23 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Asians In Britain: 400 Years of History
Asians In Britain: 400 Years of History 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism
The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism 4.11 avg rating — 2,185 ratings
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Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London 3.98 avg rating — 367 ratings
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1965 The Year Modern Britain was Born
1965 The Year Modern Britain was Born 3.43 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War
The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War 3.89 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz 4.30 avg rating — 132,023 ratings
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made 4.10 avg rating — 4,264 ratings
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The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence
The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence 4.05 avg rating — 117 ratings
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To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 4.23 avg rating — 3,980 ratings
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Black and British: A Short, Essential History
Black and British: A Short, Essential History 4.49 avg rating — 1,888 ratings
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The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food 4.12 avg rating — 500 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,609 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,323 ratings
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Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000
Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To
All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To 3.74 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Bloody Valentine: As seen on BBC TV 'A Killing in Tiger Bay'
Bloody Valentine: As seen on BBC TV 'A Killing in Tiger Bay' 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War 4.57 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Ashes And Blood: The British Army In South Africa, 1795 1914
Ashes And Blood: The British Army In South Africa, 1795 1914 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War 4.10 avg rating — 5,592 ratings
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Women of Steel: How Sheffield’s Feisty Factory Sisters Helped Win the War
Women of Steel: How Sheffield’s Feisty Factory Sisters Helped Win the War 4.07 avg rating — 189 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 4.33 avg rating — 15,703 ratings
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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I 3.87 avg rating — 3,068 ratings
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A History of Sheffield
A History of Sheffield
by: David Hey
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914
The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914 4.11 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul
Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul 4.15 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Douglas Haig: War Diaries & Letters 19141918
Douglas Haig: War Diaries & Letters 19141918 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond 4.07 avg rating — 7,297 ratings
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This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History 4.32 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
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The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen & Women, 1939-45
The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen & Women, 1939-45 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time 4.26 avg rating — 4,232 ratings
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Flappers: The Real Lives of British Women in the Era of the Great Gatsby
Flappers: The Real Lives of British Women in the Era of the Great Gatsby really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 4.25 avg rating — 1,902 ratings
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The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family 3.91 avg rating — 13,807 ratings
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Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II
Bomb Girls: Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II 3.85 avg rating — 408 ratings
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 4.39 avg rating — 11,881 ratings
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The Most Dangerous Enemy: The History of the Battle of Britain
The Most Dangerous Enemy: The History of the Battle of Britain 4.33 avg rating — 830 ratings
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The Stepney Doorstep Society
The Stepney Doorstep Society 4.25 avg rating — 536 ratings
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Britain's War: Into Battle 1937-1941
Britain's War: Into Battle 1937-1941 4.33 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Forgotten Wars: The End Of Britain's Asian Empire
Forgotten Wars: The End Of Britain's Asian Empire 3.94 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Minding the Manor: The Memoir Of A 1930S English Kitchen Maid
Minding the Manor: The Memoir Of A 1930S English Kitchen Maid 4.25 avg rating — 2,838 ratings
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The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative
The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative 4.42 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Official History of the Operations in Somaliland, 1901-04, Volume 1
Official History of the Operations in Somaliland, 1901-04, Volume 1 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Hearthlands: A Memoir of the White City housing estate in Belfast
Hearthlands: A Memoir of the White City housing estate in Belfast 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 8,723 ratings
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Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance
Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance 4.02 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Me And Mine
Me And Mine 4.26 avg rating — 679 ratings
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Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War
Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War 4.19 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Never Surrender: Winston Churchill and Britain's Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940
Never Surrender: Winston Churchill and Britain's Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940 4.07 avg rating — 259 ratings
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An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London
An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London 4.03 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink 4.04 avg rating — 5,050 ratings
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Shane MacGowan: London Irish Punk Life & Music...
Shane MacGowan: London Irish Punk Life & Music... 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches 3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Ireland's Hidden Diaspora: The Abortion Trail and the Making of a London-Irish Underground, 1980-2000
Ireland's Hidden Diaspora: The Abortion Trail and the Making of a London-Irish Underground, 1980-2000 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road 4.16 avg rating — 93,113 ratings
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Art O'Brien and Irish Nationalism in London: 1900-25
Art O'Brien and Irish Nationalism in London: 1900-25 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters 4.11 avg rating — 3,188 ratings
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The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945–1965 (Migrations and Identities, 7)
The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945–1965 (Migrations and Identities, 7) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf 4.47 avg rating — 4,854 ratings
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Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in 1970s London
Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in 1970s London 3.68 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford 4.10 avg rating — 486 ratings
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In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor 4.01 avg rating — 456 ratings
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1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
1917: War, Peace, and Revolution 3.92 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Mods: The New Religion
Mods: The New Religion 4.40 avg rating — 50 ratings
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean 3.81 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties
Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties 3.71 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War 4.04 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
by: Joe Boyd
4.01 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
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Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story
Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story
by: Vera Lynn
4.12 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me
Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me 4.10 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957 4.13 avg rating — 89 ratings
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London: The Biography
London: The Biography 3.96 avg rating — 5,912 ratings
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Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography 4.12 avg rating — 12,255 ratings
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Coal: A Human History
Coal: A Human History 3.72 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
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