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Peter the Great

By Stephen J. Lee

Joan of Kent: The First Princess of Wales

By Penny Lawne

Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

By Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan Morris

The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 (Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-5)

By John Nichol and Tony Rennell, Nichol, John; Rennell, Tony, John, Rennell

Perkin

By Ann Wroe

HENRY V111 PERS.& POLITICS

And Now The Shipping Forecast: A Tide of History Around Our Shores

By Jefferson, Peter

Diary of an Occupation

By Baron Max Von Aufsess, Kathleen Nowlan

My Boy Jack?: The Search for Kipling's Only Son

By Holt, Tonie, Valmai

Not Much of an Engineer

By Sir Stanley Hooker

Winged Victory: A Last Look Back - The Personal Reflections of Two Royal Air Force Leaders

By J. E. Johnson, Laddie Lucas

The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines

By Mulley, Clare

The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

By Goalhanger Podcasts, Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook (Historian)

James Herriot's Yorkshire Revisited

By James Herriot, Jim Wight, Derry Brabbs

Trusted Mole: A Soldier's Journey into Bosnia's Heart of Darkness

By Milos Stankovic, Martin Bell, M.P.

For He is an Englishman: Memoirs of a Prussian Nobleman

By Charles Arnold-Baker

Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)

By julian barnes

The Life and Evil Times of Nicolae Ceausescu

By John Sweeney

The Pebbled Shore

By Elizabeth Longford

Himmler: Reichsfuhrer S.S.

By Peter Padfield

A King's Story: The Memoirs of HRH the Duke of Windsor, KG

By Duke of Windsor, Philip Ziegler

His Father's Son: Life of Randolph Churchill

By Winston S. Churchill

David Ervine: Uncharted Waters

By Henry Sinnerton

Gibbon

By J. W. Burrow

James Maxton

By William Knox

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish it

By Ken Livingstone

One Soldier's War In Chechnya

By Arkady Babchenko

Mountbatten

By Philip Ziegler

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

By Frances Osborne

Churchill

By Sebastian Haffner, John Brownjohn, Ian Pindar, Peter Hennessy