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Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II

By Robert Hardman

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

By Richard Overy

Hell's Foundations: Town, Its Myths and Gallipoli

By Geoffrey Moorhouse

Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War

By Elizabeth Greenhalgh (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914-18

By Wilson

Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier

By John Terraine

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

Yanks and Limeys: Alliance Warfare in the Second World War

By Niall Barr

Battle Story Arnhem 1944

By Brown

An Introduction to Modern British History 1900-1999

By Lynch, Michael

The Last Days of the Raj

By Trevor Royle

Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood

By Terence Frisby

The Tartan Pimpernel

By Donald Caskie, Mike Hughes

The English Arcadia: 100 Years of "Country Life"

By Sir Roy Strong

1939: The Last Season

By Anne de Courcy

Britain at War in Colour: Unique Images of Britain in the Second World War

By Binns, Stewart, Wood, Adrian

Chancellors

By Jenkins, Roy

In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain

By Mr David Cannadine

The Hong Kong Diaries

By Chris Patten

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song

By Paul Howard

Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front

By Richard Holmes

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot's Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France

By Alastair Panton

Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland

By Jonathan Powell

Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast

By Douglas Hurd

Charles

By Sally Bedell Smith

Lancaster Target

By Jack Currie

The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain

By Stephen Bungay

The Blitzed City: The Destruction of Coventry, 1940

By Karen Farrington

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann