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Princess

By Robert Lacey, Michael Rand

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

By Cathy Newman

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

By Richard Davenport-Hines

The Story of the Royal Maundy (Pride of Britain) (Pride of Britain S.)

By Peter Wright

Keeping Mum: A Wartime Childhood

By Brian Thompson

The Duke of Wellington: What They Said and What He Said

Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story

The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

By Hunt, Tristram

Truth About Rudolf Hess

By Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to May

By Steve Richards

Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist

By Wilfrid Blunt, William T. Stearn

Shadows of a Princess

By Patrick Jephson

Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942

By Leona Thomas

The Spy Who Loved: The secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of WWII

By Clare Mulley

J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science

By Andrew Brown

Four Girls from Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust

By Marianne Meyerhoff, Alexander Smithline

Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman (Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia)

Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian

By Leonora Neville (John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History, John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

By Volker Weidermann, Carol Janeway

Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction

By Hugh Bowden (Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at King's College London)

Aethelstan: The First King of England

By Sarah Foot

Hellenistic Lives: including Alexander the Great

By Plutarch, Robin Waterfield (Freelance writer and translator, Freelance writer and translator), Andrew Erskine (Professor of Ancient History, Professor of Ancient History, University of Edinburgh)

Carve Her Name with Pride

By R., J. Minney

Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy from William the Conqueror to Charles III

By Tracy Borman

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

By Robert Wokler (, formerly Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University)

Nell Gwyn

By Charles Beauclerk

Rex Whistler's War

By Jenny Spencer-Smith, Alan J. Guy

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Harry's War

By Harry Drinkwater, Jon Cooksey, David Griffiths