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Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952

By Hadaway, Stuart

The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Dunlop, Tessa

Gordon Brown: ‘As a psychological profile, an exploration of personal ambition and a study of political obsession driven by religious angst, this biography is gripping’ Daily Telegraph

By Bower, Tom

Ten Dead Men: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

By Beresford, David

Churchill's Bomb: A hidden history of Britain's first nuclear weapons programme

By Farmelo, Graham

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

By Urquhart, Alistair

We Remember the Home Guard

By Shaw, Frank, Joan

Churchills: A Family Portrait

By Lee, Celia

Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (Coronet Books)

By Laird, Dorothy

Winston and Clementine: The Triumph of the Churchills

By Hough, Richard

First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

By Purnell, Sonia

Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life

By Hobsbawm, Eric

The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime

By Stapleton, Susannah

Edwina Mountbatten Biography

By Morgan, Janet

George Mackay Brown: The Life

By Fergusson, Maggie

The Invisible Wall

By Bernstein, Harry

My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette

By Pankhurst, Emmeline

The Smoking Diaries Volume 2: The Year Of The Jouncer

By Gray, Simon

As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War

By Smith, Emma

A Touch of Class: Story of Austin Reed

By Ritchie, Berry

Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr

By Lyndsey Jenkins

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II

By MacIntyre, Ben

In Search of a Past: Manor House, Amnersfield, 1933-45

By Fraser, Ronald

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943

By Gabriel Gorodetsky

Warlord: Churchill at War: 1874-1945

By D'Este, Carlo

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

The King of the Barbareens

By Hitchman, Janet

Testament Of A Peace Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain

By Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan

Winston Churchill: Politics, Strategy and Statecraft

By Toye, Richard