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The First Four Minutes

By Sir Roger Bannister

Not Much of an Engineer

By Sir Stanley Hooker

The Little Field Marshall: Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

Signalman Jones: Based on the Recollections of Geoffrey Holder-Jones

By Tim Parker

Trusted Mole: A Soldier's Journey into Bosnia's Heart of Darkness

By Milos Stankovic, Martin Bell, M.P.

The Sea Warriors

By Richard Woodman

His Father's Son: Life of Randolph Churchill

By Winston S. Churchill

David Ervine: Uncharted Waters

By Henry Sinnerton

Churchill

By Sebastian Haffner, John Brownjohn, Ian Pindar, Peter Hennessy

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky

Every Girl's Duty: The Diary of a Victorian Debutante

By Alice Catherine Miles, Maggy Parsons

The Holy Fox: Biography of Lord Halifax

By Andrew Roberts

Improper Pursuits

By Carola Hicks

Outcasts' Outcast

By Peter Stanford

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

By Susan Ottaway

Salisbury: Victorian Titan

By Andrew Roberts

Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79)

Homenaje a Cataluna (Edicion definitiva avalada por The Orwell Estate) / Homage to Catalonia. (Definitive text endorsed by The Orwell Foundation)

By George Orwell

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

By Ken Aedy

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain

By Robert Harvey

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot's Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France

By Alastair Panton

King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta

By Marc Morris

Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

By Sarah Gristwood

An Autobiography

By Edwin Muir, P.H. Butter

The Accidental Footballer

By Pat Nevin

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

By Simon Winchester

Watching the Door

By Kevin Myers

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews