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

By John Campbell

Michael Collins: The Lost Leader

By Margery Forester

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

By Peter FitzSimons

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

By George M Harper

W.B. Yeats: a Literary Life

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

J'Accuse

By Émile Zola

Dante in Love

By A. N. Wilson (Author)

The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Rab: The Life Of R.A. Butler

By Anthony Howard

The Lives Of The Kings And Queens Of England

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

The Sixties

By Jenny Diski

The Discourses (Penguin Classics)

By Machiavelli

Diana: Story of a Princess

By Tim Clayton, Phil Craig

Trampled Wife: The Scandalous Life of Mary Eleanor Bowes

By Derek Parker

I Love Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts

By Cate Ludlow

Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens

By David Mitchell

An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Princess Vicky: Princess Vicky

By Hannah Pakula

A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea

By Tristan Jones

The Man Who Drew London

By Gillian Tindall

The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius And Laughter in Literary London, 1817

By Penelope Hughes-Hallett

Dante: The Poet, the Thinker, the Man

By Barbara Reynolds

Hitler's Field Marshals and Their Battles

By Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr.

Xanadu

By John Man

Elizabeth I

By Lady Anne Somerset

Caraboo: The Servant Girl Princess

By Jennifer Raison, Michael Goldie

Peter the Great

By Henri Troyat

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

By Anne Edwards

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

By Anne Edwards

Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell

By Piers Brendon

Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC

By Roger Field And Geoffrey Gordo, N Creed