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The Secret Listeners: How the Y Service Intercepted the German Codes for Bletchley Park

By McKay, Sinclair

Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall

By Sybil Oldfield

Lord Beaconsfield

By J A Froude

Flags Of Our Fathers

By Bradley, James, Powers, Ron

Growing Up In A War

By Magee, Bryan

Through Fire and WaterHMS Ardent: The Forgotten Frigate of the Falklands

By Mark, Higgitt

Britain's Everyday Heroes: The Making of the Good Society

By Community Links, Brown, Gordon

Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War

By Henry Allingham, Dennis Goodwin, HRH Prince Charles

Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero

By Sir Tommy Macpherson, Richard Bath

SAS Heroes: Remarkable Soldiers, Extraordinary Men

By Scholey, Pete, Forsyth, Frederick

KANDAK: Fighting with Afghans

By Hennessey, Patrick

Thomas Cromwell: A Life

By MacCulloch, Diarmaid

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

By Malcolmson, Patricia, Malcolmson, Robert

Blair Unbound

By Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon, Daniel Collings

Blair Unbound

By Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon, Daniel Collings

Walter Tull's Scrapbook

By Morgan, Michaela

Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918

By Mayhew, Emily

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Philipps, Roland

Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front

By Atkinson, Dr Diane

St George: Let's Hear it For England!

By Maloney, Alison

Scram!: The Gripping First-hand Account of the Helicopter War in the Falklands

By Benson, Harry

To War with Wellington: From the Peninsula to Waterloo

By Snow, Peter

Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress

By Wilkinson, Josephine

At War with the 16th Irish Division 1914-1918: The Letters of J. H. M. Staniforth

By Richard S. Grayson

John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator

By Bill Cash

Free Radical: A Memoir

By Vince Cable

Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman

By Brian Moynahan

Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman

By Brian Moynahan

Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940

By Patrick Bishop