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One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

Apache Dawn: Always outnumbered, never outgunned.

By Lewis, Damien

The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

London Labour and the London Poor

By Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford)

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

By Larry Loftis

John Knox

By Rosalind K. Marshall

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By Michael Palin

The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England

By Jones, Dan

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF Landings In France 1940-1944

By Hugh Verity (Author)

The Venerable Bede

By Benedicta Ward, SLG

Simon Weston: Moving on

By Simon Weston

From Shore to Shore: Final Years Diary, 1953-79. Ed.P.Ziegler

By Earl Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma, Philip Ziegler

Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat

By Sir Christopher Mallaby, Peter Hennessy

Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV

By James Munson

The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne

By David Fisher

The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper - Rebel Physician

By Benjamin Woolley

George III's Children

By John Van der Kiste

Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen

By Alison Plowden

Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero

By John G. Cummins

Heinemann Profiles: Mother Teresa Hardback

By Middleton, Haydn

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Helen Keller

By Harriet Castor, Nick Ward, Fam people

Rosl's Daughter

By Liesl Muller-Johnson

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges