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George VI: A Biography

By Howarth, Patrick

Gypsy Boy: The bestselling memoir of a Romany childhood

By Mikey Walsh, Walsh, Mikey

Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop Stewardess

By Jessop, Violet, Maxtone-Graham, John

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

By Carter, Miranda

In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

By Karmi, Ghada

Tales of the Old Countrymen

By Martin, Brian P.

Churchill: The Unexpected Hero

By Addison, Paul

Death's Men: Soldiers Of The Great War

By Winter, Denis

A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

By Jean Lucey Pratt, Simon Garfield

Gi Brides: The War-Time Girls Who Crossed The Atlantic For Love

By Barrett, Duncan

Impossible Love

By Frister, Roman

The Royal Family (Unseen Archives)

The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries

By Mulley, Clare

Voices from the Twentieth Century: Women at War

By Fountain, Nigel

Four Meals For Fourpence: A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's old East End

By Foakes, Grace

Enoch at 100: A re-evaluation of the life, politics and philosophy of Enoch Powell

By Edited by Lord Howard of Rising

Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion

By Smith, C, Bierman, J

Mandate Days: British Lives in Palest

By Sherman, A

World War II The Definitive Visual Guide

By DK, Holmes, Richard

The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor

By Wilson, A. N.

When I Was a German, 1934-1945: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany

By Christabel Bielenberg, Klemens von Klemperer

Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War

By Goodwin, Dennis, Allingham, Henry

A Little Girl's War

By Appleton, Wendy

Testament Of A Peace Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain

By Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan

The King of the Barbareens

By Hitchman, Janet

Michael Ramsey: A Life

By Chadwick, Owen

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

By Fraser, Ronald

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Warlord: Churchill at War: 1874-1945

By D'Este, Carlo

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

By Gabriel Gorodetsky