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A Yorkshire Boyhood

By Roy Hattersley

The House of Mitford

By Jonathan Guinness, Catherine Guinness

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Churchill: A Life

By Dr Martin Gilbert

Eminent Churchillians

By Roberts, Andrew

Last Guardians: Crown Service in Sudan, Northern Rhodesia and Britain

By Philip Bowcock

In Search of Churchill

By Martin Gilbert

Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson

By Jon Lee Anderson

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 7: Road to Victory

By Martin Gilbert

John Major: The Autobiography

By John Major

Hunter to Hunted - Surviving Hitler's Wolf Packs: Diaries of a Merchant Navy Radio Officer, 1939-45

By Alex Anderson

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

By Anne Edwards

Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell

By Piers Brendon

Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

By Tim Marshall

Healing in Hell: The Memoirs of a Far Eastern POW Medic

By Michael Adams

The Past Is Myself

By Bielenberg, Christabel

Winston Churchill Quotations

By David Notley

101 Things You Need to Know About Suffragettes

By Professor Maggie Andrews, Dr Janis Lomas

The Last Para

By John Humphreys, Stuart Tootal

David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider

By Roy Hattersley

Queen Mother Herself

By Cathcart, Helen

Galloper Jack

By Brough Scott

Heartbreak Farm: A Farmer and His Farm in Wartime

By Frances Mountford

Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44

By Charles Glass

The Dark Side of Camelot

By Hersh, Seymour