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Likes of Us: An Official Biography of the White Working Class

By Collins, Michael

The Blood Tub: General Gough and the Battle of Bullecourt, 1917

By Walker, Jonathan

The Great Infidel: A Life of David Hume

By Graham, Roderick

Cranmer and the English Reformation (Headstart History Papers)

By Loades, D. M.

Blenheim Preparation: The English Army - Collected Essays: The Armies of William III and Marlborough

By David Chandler

The Confessions of a Poacher 1890: The Nineteenth Century Reminiscences of an Exponent of the Fine Art of Poaching

By John Watson, James West

Christopher Columbus (I Was There S.)

By Clare, John D.

History at War: The Campaigns of an Historian

By Frankland, Noble

I Thought as a Child: Growing Up in St.Helens in the 1930s and 1940s

By Menzies, Barbara H.

James Hutton: The Founder of Modern Geology (Scots' Lives S.)

By Mcintyre, Donald, McKirdy, Alan

Memories of Maggie: A Portrait of Margaret Thatcher

By Dale, Iain

Park: The Biography of Air Chief Marshall Sir Keith Park, GCB, KBE, MC, DFC, DCL

By Vincent Orange

Land Girls at the Old Rectory

By Irene Grimwood

Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story from Pre-War Flying to Breaking the Sound Barrier

By Walker, Diana Baranto

Test Pilot (Aviation Classics)

By Duke, Neville

Spartacus: The Life of a Roman Gladiator (Graphic Non-fiction) (Graphic Non-fiction S.)

By Ganeri, Anita, Shone, Rob, Spender, Nick

Faster than the Sun: The Compelling Story of a Record-Breaking Test Pilot and WWII Navy Flyer

By Twiss, Peter

Lie in the Dark and Listen: The Remarkable Exploits of a Second World War Bomber Pilot and Great Escaper

By Rees, Ken, Arrandale, Karen

Tom Paine: The Life of a Revolutionary

By Harry Harmer

Fighting Fitt: The Gerry Fitt Story

By Ryder, Chris

Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

By Mavis Batey

Mannock: The Life and Death of Major Edward Mannock VC, DSO, MC, RAF

By Norman L.R. Franks, Andy Saunders

A Pathfinder's War: An Extraordinary Tale of Surviving Over 100 Bomber Operations Against All Odds

By Flt Lt Ted Stocker, Sean Feast

Brotherhood of the Skies: Wartime Experiences of a Gunner Officer and Typhoon Pilot: Wartime experiences of a gunnery officer and Typhoon pilot

By David Ince

Dowding of Fighter Command

By Vincent Orange

Churchill's Navigator: Stories from Air Commodore John Mitchell's career including his time as Churchill's navigator

By John Mitchell, Sean Feast

My Golden Flying Years: From 1918 Over France, Through Iraq in the 1920s, to the Schneider Trophy Race of 1927

By D. D'arcy A. Greig, Norman L.R. Franks, Simon Muggleton

Shot Down in Flames: A WW2 Fighter Pilot's Remarkable Take of Survival: A WWII Fighter Pilot's Remarkable Tale of Survival

By Geoffrey Page

Be Bold

By Frederick Rosier, David Rosier

A Grand Gossip: the Bletchley Park Diary of Basil Cottle, 1943-45

By Cottle, Basil, Hodsdon, James, Hodsdon, Judith