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Hitler

By john toland

Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War

By Ian Kershaw

Ten Years at Hitler's Side: The Testimony of Wilhelm Keitel

Hitler's Enforcers: Leaders of the German War Machine, 1939-45

By James Lucas

One of the Few

By Kent Johnny

Tail Gunner

By Richard C. Rivaz

No Ordinary Pilot: One young man's extraordinary exploits in World War II

By Suzanne Campbell-Jones

Doctor's Occupation

By John Lewis

Memoirs of a Goldfish: Experiences of a World War II Bomber Pilot and POW

By Jim Burtt-Smith

Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

By Leigh Fermor, Patrick

Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park

By Michael Smith

Waiting For Hitler

By Midge Gillies

The Soldier Who Came Back

By Steve Foster, Alan Clark

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

By Harry Pardoe

Boldness Be My Friend

By Richard Pape

Empress Josephine

By Ernest John D. Knapton

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

On the Front Line: True World War I Stories

By Jon E. Lewis

The First Heroes

By Craig Nelson

W. B. Yeats, A Life I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914

By R. F. Foster (Carroll Professor of Irish History, Carroll Professor of Irish History, Hertford College, Oxford)

War's Long Shadow: 69 Months of the Second World War

By Charlotte Popescu, The Earl of Kitchener

Somme Mud

By E.P.F. Lynch, William Davies

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

By Arthur Waley, Dennis Washburn

Mr Brown's War: A Diary of the Second World War

By Helen D. Millgate

The Romanov Conspiracies: The Romanovs and the House of Windsor

By Michael Occleshaw

The Penguin History of Britain: A Monarchy Transformed, Britain 1630-1714: A Monarchy Transformed, Britain 1630-1714 v. 6

By Kishlansky, Mark, Mark Kishlansky

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

Politics On the Edge

By Rory Stewart

Grub Street Irregular

By Jeremy Lewis