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In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War

by David Reynolds

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson