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Ma’am Darling: : The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown

By Brown, Craig

Lady Under Fire on the Western Front

By Andrew Hallam, Nicola Hallam

Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

By Katie Hickman

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

By Elaine Feinstein

The Honour and the Shame

By John Kenneally Vc

Churchill: A Life

By John Keegan

The Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten: Tours with the Prince of Wales

By Earl Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma, Philip Ziegler, Lord Louis Mountbatten

This Bright Field: A Travel Book in One Place

By William Taylor

Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man

By Anthony Sattin

The Last Great Edwardian Lady

By Ingrid Seward

The Queen at 90

By St James's House

Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, 1896-1933

By Nicholas Mosley

Edward VII's Children

By John Van der Kiste

Royal Family

By Unknown

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anne Sebba

Goodbye to All That

By Robert Graves, Richard Perceval Graves

Anti-Semitism in the Third Reich

By Hermann Graml, Tim Kirk

The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

By Ivan Maisky, Gabriel Gorodetsky

Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled

By Heald, Tim

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

By Paul Addison (University of Edinburgh), Harriet Jones (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

Fighter Aces! the Constable Maxwell Brothers: Fighter Pilots in Two World Wars

By Alex Revell

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

By David M. Guss

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

Killing Zone

By Harry McCallion

The Literary Churchill

By Jonathan Rose

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

War Of The Windsors

By Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Stephen Prior, Barlow Meyers

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

By Gyles Brandreth

Churchill: An Unruly Life

By Norman Rose