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Escape from Baghdad: First Time Was For the Money, This Time It's Personal

By James Ashcroft

D-day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France

By Frank 'Dutch' Holland, Adam Wilkins

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink

By Anthony McCarten

"Bomber" Harris: His Life and Times

By Henry Probert

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

By Jerry Roberts, Paddy O'Connell

Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse

By Adam Hart-Davis, Emily Troscianko

Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda, 1868-1928

By Michael Twaddle

Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul

By Roger Owen (, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University)

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985

By Charles van Onselen

Helen Waddell

By Felicitas Corrigan

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Max Hastings

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

By Stella Tillyard

A Passion For Trees: The Legacy Of John Evelyn

By Maggie Campbell-Culver

The Reluctant Tommy: An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War

By Ronald Skirth, Duncan Barrett

Spartacus: The Life of a Roman Gladiator

By Anita Ganeri, Rob Shone, Nick Spender

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

By Ophelia Field

Peel

By Graham Goodlad, Derrick Murphy

The Asquiths

By Colin W. G. Clifford

Faith and Duty: The True Story of a Soldier's War in Northern Ireland

By Nicky Curtis

The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars

By Hennessey, Patrick

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By Sean O'Driscoll

The Red Sweet Wine Of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets

By Nicholas Murray

Hannah: The Complete Story

By Hauxwell, Hannah, Cockcroft, Barry

The Greatest Games: The ultimate book for football fans inspired by the #1 podcast

By Jamie Carragher

The English Civil War

By Purkiss, Diane

Lloyd George: War Leader 1916-1918

By John Grigg

Disraeli: A Brief Life

By Paul Smith

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS

By Gavin Mortimer

Queen Elizabeth I

By J Neale

Elizabeth I: The Exhibition Catalogue

By Dr David Starkey, Susan Doran