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Frederick the Great: King of Prussia

By Blanning, Tim

Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert

By Drury, John

Thomas Cromwell: A Life

By MacCulloch, Diarmaid

Duke of Hazard: The Wit and Wisdom of Prince Philip

By Dampier, Phil, Walton, Ashley

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo

By Reiss, Tom

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

THE SIXTIES (Big Ideas)

By Diski, Jenny

Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

By Malcolmson, Patricia, Malcolmson, Robert

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

By Buergenthal, Thomas

Bomber Command: The Thousand Bomber Raids - An Illustrated Account of the RAF's 1942 Offensive Against Germany (World War II Aviation History)

By Martyn Chorlton

Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation

By Stuart Kelly

Pius XII: The Hound of Hitler

By Gerard Noel

Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

By Hewitt, Rachel

Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968

By Kovály, Heda, Epstein, Franci, Epstein, Helen

Journal

By Helene Berr

Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome

By Kathryn Tempest

Blair Unbound

By Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon, Daniel Collings

Blair Unbound

By Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon, Daniel Collings

Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918

By Mayhew, Emily

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Collingham, Lizzie

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Philipps, Roland

Politics: Between the Extremes

By Clegg, Nick, Nick Clegg

Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front

By Atkinson, Dr Diane

St George: Let's Hear it For England!

By Maloney, Alison

Together: How small groups achieve big things

By Hemming, Henry

To War with Wellington: From the Peninsula to Waterloo

By Snow, Peter

Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde

By Moyle, Franny

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner

By Wulf, Andrea

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner

By Wulf, Andrea