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White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics)

By George Orwell

Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and his Six Wives through the eyes of the Spanish Ambassador

By Lauren Mackay

Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

By Paula Byrne

All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart

By Beezy Marsh

The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

By Ivan Maisky, Gabriel Gorodetsky

T.E.Lawrence

By Desmond Stewart

Dear Osborne

By John Matson

The Last Days: Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

By David Cesarani, Steven Spielberg

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

By Antony Beevor

Anti-Semitism in the Third Reich

By Hermann Graml, Tim Kirk

Britain's Last Tommies: Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914-18 War in Their Own Words

By Richard Van Emden

A People's History of Scotland

By Chris Bambery

The Putin Corporation: How to Poison Elections

By Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

London's Strangest: The Thames: Extraordinary but true stories (Strangest)

By Iain Spragg

The Post in the Hills

By Katharine Stewart

Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History

By Liam Vaughan

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America

By Michael McFaul

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921

By Isaac Deutscher

London: A Traveller's Reader

By Peter Ackroyd, Thomas Wright

An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

By Alison Bashford

From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

Frank Mcclean: the Godfather of British Naval Aviation

By Philip Jarrett

Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty

By Elizabeth Norton

The Lady In The Tower

By Alison Weir

Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen

By Alison Weir

The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby

By Michael K. Jones, Malcolm G. Underwood