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Fire Woman: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's First Female Firefighter

By Reynolds, Josephine

When the Lamps Went Out: Reporting the Great War 1914–1918

By Fountain, Nigel, Fountain, Nigel

Last Landlady: An English Memoir

By Laura Thompson

All The Devils Are Here (Granta Editions)

By David Seabrook

On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons

By Cumming, Laura

The Black-Out Book: One-hundred-and-one black-out nights' entertainment (General Military)

By August, Evelyn, Brown, Mike

The Secret War Between the Wars: MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s (History of British Intelligence) (History of British Intelligence, 5)

By Kevin Quinlan

Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams

By Williams, Shirley

World's End: A Memoir of a Blitz Childhood

By Donald James Wheal

Breaking the Dams: The Story of Dambuster David Maltby and His Crew

By Charles Foster

Fifty Dead Men Walking

By Martin McGartland

Land Girls and Their Impact

By Kramer, Ann

Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

By Alwyn W. Turner

The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There

By Sinclair McKay

The Spade as Mighty as the Sword: The Story of World War Two's 'Dig for Victory' Campaign

By Smith, Daniel

Fron-Goch Camp 1916 - And the Birth of the IRA

By Ebenezer, Lyn

Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War

By Henry Allingham, Dennis Goodwin, HRH Prince Charles

Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero

By Sir Tommy Macpherson, Richard Bath

Desert Rats: British 8th Army in North Africa 1941-43: 28 (Battle Orders)

By Moreman, Tim

The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation

By Ian Cobain

At War with the 16th Irish Division 1914-1918: The Letters of J. H. M. Staniforth

By Richard S. Grayson

The RAF Pathfinders: Bomber Command's Elite Squadrons (Aviation)

By Martyn Chorlton

London Calling (Time Out Guides)

By Time Out Guides Ltd

The Great Indoors: At home in the modern British house

By Ben Highmore

Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

By Malcolmson, Patricia, Malcolmson, Robert

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

By Titchmarsh, Alan

Typhoon Wings of 2nd TAF 194345 (Combat Aircraft)

By Chris Thomas, Chris Thomas

RAF Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces (Aircraft of the Aces)

By Andrew Thomas, Chris Davey

The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage (History of British Intelligence)

By David Burke