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A Likely Story

Oh, Captain Shaw: Life Story of the First and Most Famous Chief of the London Fire Brigade [Eyre Massey Shaw]

By Cox, Ronald

The Astronomers Royal

By Emily Winterburn, Martin Rees

Sultan of Zanzibar, The : The Bizarre World and Spectacular Hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole

By Martyn Downer

Shot at Dawn: Executions in World War One by Authority of the British Army Act

By Putkowski, Julian, Sykes, Julian

Inside Stalin's Russia: The Diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930-1934

By Bullard, Reader, Bullard, Julian, Bullard, Margaret, Hurd, Rt. Hon Lord Douglas

The Lion and the Eagle: Polish Second World War Veterans in Scotland (Voice of war series)

By Henderson, Diana M.

A Yeoman of England: A Collection of Essays Dedicated to Henry Plumb, the Lord Plumb of Coleshill

By Wertwyn, Puck, MacGregor, John

Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK

By Ian Bone, Richard Jones, Trevor Wyatt

Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

By Widdecombe, Ann

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

First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

By Purnell, Sonia

Battlefield Bombers Deep Sea Attack

By Martin Bowman

Ada's Algorithm: How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's Daughter, Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers

By James Essinger

Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII

By Sarah-Beth Watkins

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

By Morton, Andrew

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

By Reynolds, Josephine

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

By Joe Glenton