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The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By Khoo Thwe, Pascal

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

By Anna Harriette Leonowens

The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

By Anna Fifield

The Blue Door: A little girl's incredible story of survival in the Japanese POW camps of Java

By Lise Kristensen

A Rumor Of War

By Philip Caputo

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

Pirates

By Ross Kemp

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

By Damien Lewis

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

By Lee Kuan Yew

What It Is Like To Go To War

By Karl Marlantes

The Admiral's Baby

By Laurens Van Der Post

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

By David Rooney

Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

By Neil Sheehan

The Edge of the Sword

By Anthony Farrar-Hockley

Raffles and the British Invasion of Java

By Tim Hannigan

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

Chinese Hordes and Human Waves

By Brigadier Brian Parritt, CBE CN

A Servant of Sarawak: Reminiscences of a Crown Counsel in 1950s Borneo

By Peter Mooney

You Got Nothing Coming

By Jimmy Lerner

A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller

By Jonn Elledge

A Child at Arms

By Patrick Davis

Stolen: Escape from Syria

By Louise Monaghan

The Jungle is Neutral: The World Famous True Story of Guerilla Warfare Against the Japanese in Malaya

By Chapman F Spencer

Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: A Saga of a Korean-American Family

By K.Connie Kang

In the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles

By Nigel Barley

The Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-45

By Frank Williams, Ronald Williams

A Name on a Wall: Two Men, Two Wars, Two Destinies

By Mark Byford

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

By Blaine Harden