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The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Observations of Thirteenth-century Life

By Matthew Paris, Richard Vaughan

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939–45 (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Campbell, Clare, Christy

Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood

By Brian Sanders

Robert Peel: A Biography

By Douglas Hurd

NELSONS PURSE

By Downer, Martyn

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

A Wren's Tale - the Secret Link to Bletchley Park: Memoirs of a Radio Mechanic at Scarborough Listening Station in the Second World War

By Muriel Davison

Brave Nurses: Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell: Band 10/White (Collins Big Cat)

By Guillain, Charlotte, Collins Big Cat

Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II

By Robert Hardman

Richard I

By JOHN GILLINGHAM

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire

By Dr Andrew C. Ross

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher

Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier

By John Terraine

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

The Letters

By T. E. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown

Sky Spy: From Six Miles High to Hitler's Bunker

By Ray Holmes

War

By Sebastian Junger

Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833-36

By Jill Liddington

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Kate Williams

The Tartan Pimpernel

By Donald Caskie, Mike Hughes

Catch That Tiger: Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II

By Noel Botham, Bruce Montague

The Accidental Footballer

By Pat Nevin

John Major: The Autobiography

By John Major

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister: Volume 2

By Crossman, Richard

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman