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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

Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now

By Maconie, Stuart

Typhoon Wings of 2nd TAF 194345 (Combat Aircraft)

By Chris Thomas, Chris Thomas

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: The Heroic True Story of a British Secret Agent Inside the IRA

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

By August, Evelyn, Brown, Mike

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Blair Unbound

By Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon, Daniel Collings

The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana

By Peter Hitchens

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

Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979

By Sandbrook, Dominic

RAF Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces (Aircraft of the Aces)

By Andrew Thomas, Chris Davey

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

By Titchmarsh, Alan

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

By Kevin Quinlan