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Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE

By Thomas, Gordon, Lewis, Greg

La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, A Life in Letters

By Bryson, Sarah

King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, The First English Aeronaut

By Davies, Mark, Branson, Sir Richard, Cameron, Don

The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines

By Mulley, Clare

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By Jean Trumpington

Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill

By Michael Shelden

The Secret History of the Blitz

By Levine, Joshua

Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies

By McGann, Stephen

The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win

By Billingham, Mark 'Billy'

The King's Grave: The Search for Richard III

By Philippa Langley, Michael Jones

To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War

By Venning, Annabel

1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

By Owtram, H. C.

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh

By Thwaite, Ann, Cottrell Boyce, Frank

Returning to Reims (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

By Eribon, Didier, Chauncey, George, Lucey, Michael, Lotringer, Sylvère

The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman's Fight to Save Two Orphans

By Jaber, Hala

Between Five Eyes: Fifty Years Inside the Intelligence Community

By Wells, Anthony R

Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim

By Russell Miller

Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

By Widdecombe, Ann

Testament of Youth

By Brittain, Vera

Sikunder Burnes: Master of the Great Game

By Craig Murray

Tomorrow You Die: The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese

By Coogan, Andy

Envoy a Diplomatic Journey

By Nicholas Barrington

Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee: Winner of the Orwell Prize

By Bew, John

Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee

By Bew, John

First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

By Purnell, Sonia

Soldier Box: Why I Won't Return to the War on Terror

By Joe Glenton

Fire Woman: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's First Female Firefighter

By Reynolds, Josephine

Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor

By Morton, Andrew

Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII

By Sarah-Beth Watkins