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Going to the Wars

By Max Hastings

Stephen Ward: Scapegoat

By Douglas Thompson

The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham

By Michael Jago

Troublesome Young Men: the Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power in 1940 and Helped to Save Britain

By Lynne Olson

James II (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Catholic King

By David Womersley

My Life, Our Times

By Gordon Brown

Seide Maises...Grandfather's Tales

By Brian Taylor

Whatever it Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour

By Steve Richards

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

Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy: Count Rumford - The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius

By G. I. Brown

Warrior King: The Life of Henry V

By Keith Dockray

Alfred the Great

By Justin Pollard

Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort

By Nicholas Courtney

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

By Andrew Hodges

Rosl's Daughter

By Liesl Muller-Johnson

Helen Keller

By Harriet Castor, Nick Ward, Fam people

For Queen and Country

By Nigel Ely

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

By A. N. Wilson

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley