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Soldier 'I': The story of an SAS Hero

By Michael Paul Kennedy, Pete Winner, Andy McNab

Shoot to Kill

By Michael Asher

The Spencer Family

By Charles Spencer

Nell Gwyn

By Charles Beauclerk

Carve Her Name with Pride

By R., J. Minney

Aethelstan: The First King of England

By Sarah Foot

The Life and World Of William Shakespeare

Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman (Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia)

Winston Churchill: A Life in the News

By Richard Toye (Professor of Modern History, University of Exeter)

Student Support Materials for History - Edexcel AS Unit 1 Option D3: Russia in Revolution, 1881- 1924

By Alan White, Ben Gregory, Angela Leonard

J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science

By Andrew Brown

Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942

By Leona Thomas

Stumbling on Happiness (P.S.)

By Gilbert, Daniel, Daniel Gilbert

A Talent for Humanity: The Life and Work of Lady Henry Somerset

By Ros Black

Please Help, Miss Nightingale! (Flashbacks) (Flashbacks S.)

By Stewart Ross

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

By Cathy Newman

Florence Nightingale (Famous People, Famous Lives)

By Emma Fischel

Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song

By Denis O'Hearn

Jack the Ripper--Case Solved, 1891

By J.J. Hainsworth

Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall

A Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley

By Martin Booth

Slim: The Standardbearer

By Ronald Lewin

Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

By Andrew Lownie

Lancaster to Berlin

By Walter Thompson

Thomas More

By Harriet Castor, Beth Willey

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

Churchill & Attlee: The Unlikely Allies Who Won The War: 2018

By David Cohen

No Case to Answer: The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery

By Andrew Cook

Mary Queen of Scots Downfall: The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley

By Robert Stedall

Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer

By Prof. Michael Smith (Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. Author of The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy (OUP, 2005).)