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Diana: Story of a Princess

By Tim Clayton, Phil Craig

The Discourses (Penguin Classics)

By Machiavelli

The Sixties

By Jenny Diski

The Lives Of The Kings And Queens Of England

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

Rab: The Life Of R.A. Butler

By Anthony Howard

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

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Dante in Love

By A. N. Wilson (Author)

J'Accuse

By Émile Zola

W.B. Yeats: a Literary Life

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

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

Michael Collins: The Lost Leader

By Margery Forester

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

Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

By Traudl Junge

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By David Remnick

Fall of the Roman Republic. Six Lives by Plutarch Marius; Sulla; Crassus; Pompey; Caesar; Cicero

By Plutarch; Warner, Rex (translator); Introduction and notes by Robin Seager

John Major: The Autobiography

By John Major

Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

By Richard Bassett

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 7: Road to Victory

By Martin Gilbert

The Prophet Outcast: Leon Trotsky, 1929-40

By Isaac Deutscher

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain

By Robert Harvey

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot's Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France

By Alastair Panton

King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta

By Marc Morris

Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

By Sid Lowe

Lost, Found, Remembered

By Lyra McKee

Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

By Sarah Gristwood

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan