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Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero

By Bruce Wathen

Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century

By George Watson

Britain's Best Kept Secret: Ultra's Base at Bletchley Park

By Ted Enever

But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Sandra Smith

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

Bismarck

By Bruce Waller (University of Wales, Swansea)

Mad Dog

By Johnny Adair

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

By Hugo Vickers

Mountbatten: Apprentice War Lord

By Adrian Smith (University of Southampton, UK)

East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

The End of the House of Windsor: Birth of a British Republic

By Stephen Haseler

Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: the Inside Story of British Diplomacy

By Sir Christopher Meyer

Conversations with Stalin

By Milovan Djilas, M.B. Petrovich

A Tale of Love and Darkness

By Amos Oz

Stalin: A Time for Judgement

By Jonathan Lewis, Phillip Whitehead, Alec Nove

Break Point: SAS: Who Dares Wins Host's Incredible True Story

By Ollerton, Ollie

Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII

By Rankin, Nicholas

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

Callaghan

By Kenneth O. Morgan

Callaghan

By Kenneth O. Morgan

In the Ring: A Commonwealth Memoir

By Don McKinnon

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution

By Professor Hugh Brogan

Mussolini

By Jasper Ridley

Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850

By Linda Colley

The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment

By Asher Horowitz, Terry Maley

Talk of the Devil

By Riccardo Orizio

Margery Perham and British Rule in Africa

By Mary Bull, Alison Smith

Napoleon and Wellington

By Andrew Roberts

The Zookeeper's Wife: An unforgettable true story, now a major film

By Diane Ackerman