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The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria

By Blunt, Wilfrid

The Elizabethans

By Wilson, A.N.

Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England

By Borman, Tracy

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters

By Sheila Fletcher

Nothing But the Truth: Selected Dispatches

By Politkovskaya, Anna, Tait, Dr Arch

Your Affectionate and Loving Sister: The Correspondence of Barbara Kerrich and Elizabeth Postlethwaite, 1733-1751

By Kerrich, Barbara, Postlethwaite, Elizabeth

Survival: Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Story

By Wendy Whitworth

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

Thames: Sacred River

By Ackroyd, Peter

Battle of Brothers: The true story of the royal family in crisis – UPDATED WITH 12 NEW CHAPTERS

By Lacey, Robert

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Davenport-Hines

Churchill: An Extraordinary Life

By Gristwood, Sarah, Gaskin, Margaret

Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

By Nicolson, Adam

Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed

By Woodhouse, Patrick

Pages From The Goncourt Journals (New York Review Books Classics)

By De Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, Baldick, Robert, Dyer, Geoff

Letters from Westerbork

By Hillesum, Etty, Pomerans, A.J.

When the Moon Rises: An Escape Through Wartime Italy

By Davies Tony

Courtesan'S Revenge

By Frances Wilson

The Saboteur of Auschwitz: The Inspiring True Story of a British Soldier Held Prisoner in Auschwitz

By Rushton, Colin

Mrs. Milburn's Diaries: An Englishwoman's Day to Day Reflections, 1939-45

By Milburn, Clara Emily, Donnelly, Peter

Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War

By Glass, Charles

ALL OF THESE PEOPLE: A Memoir

By Keane

Warlord: Churchill at War: 1874-1945

By D'Este, Carlo

England's Hour

By Brittain, Vera

Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World

By Marozzi, Justin

In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh Companions to Literature)

By Mena Mitrano

John Donne: Life, Mind and Art

By Carey, John

May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

By Rebecca Bowler, Claire Drewery

William Wallace: A National Tale

By Graeme Morton