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Free Fall: A Sniper's Story from Chechnya

By Nicolai Lilin, Jamie Richards

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast

By Douglas Hurd

Round About Chatsworth

My Dearest, Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria's Life Through Her Letters and Journals

By Karen Dolby

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

John WesleyThe Life of John Wesley

By Hattersley, Roy

King Charles II: His Life and Times (Kings & queens of England)

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

By Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn

Politics On the Edge

By Rory Stewart

Home to Roost: Putting Down Roots in Cornwall

By Tessa Hainsworth

The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome, 31 B.C. - A.D. 476

Biographic: Churchill

By R Wiles

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

By Wendy Holden

Watching the Door

By Kevin Myers

BACK FROM THE BRINK: The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party

By Snowdon

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy

By Paul Ratchnevsky, Thoams Nivison Haining

The Complete MAUS

By Spiegelman, Art

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

By Richard Stoneman

The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

By Simon Winchester

Michael Collins: The Lost Leader

By Margery Forester

The Making of Yeat's "A Vision: A Study of the Automatic Script

By George M Harper

Nancy Wake: The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy

By Peter FitzSimons

W.B. Yeats: a Literary Life

By Alisdair D.F. Macrae (Senior Lecturer, University of Sterling)

Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown

By John Campbell

Stalin and Stalinism (Seminar Studies in History)

By McCauley, Martin