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The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism

By Antoinette Burton (Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of History, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Distant Drum: a Memoir of a Guardsman in the Great War

By F.E. Noakes

The Doodlebugs: Story of the Flying Bombs

By Norman Longmate

War and an Irish Town

By Eamonn McCann

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

Yesterdays: v. 1: Yesterdays Way We Were, 1919-39

By Eric Midwinter

The Making of Modern Britain from Queen Victoria to VE Day.

By Marr, Andrew

A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital

By Simon Jenkins

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing

By Jane Dunn

Sagittarius Rising

By Cecil Lewis

War! Hellish War! Star Shell Reflections 1916 - 1918

By Barbara McClune, Jim Maultsaid

An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always

By John O'Farrell

English History 1914-1945

By A. J. P. Taylor (late Professor of History and Fellow, late Professor of History and Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford)

Votes for Women, 1860-1928

By Paula Bartley

The British Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1866-1928

By Harold Smith

The Holocaust: A New History

By Laurence Rees

Secret Life of Fighter Command: Testimonials from the men and women who beat the Luftwaffe

By Sinclair McKay

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

By Giles Milton

Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922

By Eunan O'Halpin (Bank of Ireland Chair of Contemporary Irish History, Bank of Ireland Chair of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin)

The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

By Selina Todd

A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute

By Jane Robinson

A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute

By Jane Robinson

Defending Britain: Twentieth-Century Military Structures in the Landscape

By Mike Osborne

Defending Britain: Twentieth-Century Military Structures in the Landscape

By Mike Osborne

The British State and the Northern Ireland Crisis, 1969-73: From Violence to Power-Sharing

By William Beattie Smith

Modern Britain, 1700-1980

By Geoffrey Alderman

Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain

By Hannah Rose Woods

Chapters of Accidents: A Writer's Memoir

By alexander Baron, Colin Holmes, Nick Baron

Wartime and Aftermath

By Bernard Bergonzi