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Bertie: A Life of Edward VII

By Jane Ridley

The Will to Survive: Three and a Half Years as a Prisoner of the Japanese

By Arthur Godman

Understanding Post-War British Society

By Peter Catterall, James Obelkevich

Moving the Goalposts: A History of Sport and Society in Britain since 1945

By Martin Polley

"Picture Post" Britain

By Gavin Weightman

Imperial War Museum Review: No.6

Dunkirk: The Real Story in Photographs

By Tim Lynch, Mirrorpix

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E. Ricks

The Sound of History: El Alamein 1942

By Richard Doherty

The Day We Went to War

By Terry Charman

The Victorian Churches of Sussex

By D.Robert Elleray

Administering the Empire, 1801-1968 - a Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office

By Mandy Banton

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink

By Anthony McCarten

Last of the Few

By Max Arthur

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

By Jerry Roberts, Paddy O'Connell

Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul

By Roger Owen (, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University)

When Peace Broke Out: Britain, 1945

By Central Office of Information

Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

By Ruth Dudley Edwards

Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter

By Stephen Anderton

Royal Observer Corps: The Eyes and Ears of the RAF in WWII

By Frontline Books

The Last Big Gun: At War & at Sea with HMS Belfast

By Brian Lavery

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

D-Day: 75th Anniversary Edition

By Antony Beevor

The Asquiths

By Colin W. G. Clifford

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By Sean O'Driscoll

Britain Yesterday and Today

By Janice Anderson, Edmund Swinglehurst

Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures

By David Souden

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

By Sathnam Sanghera

MI5 in the Great War

By Nigel West

The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creators of the Modern World 1776 - 1914

By Gavin Weightman