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A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

Grey Eminence

By Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine

The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)

By Montaigne, Michel, Screech, M., Screech, M., Screech, M., Screech, M.

Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

By Marcello Simonetta, Noga Arikha

Napoleon: How He Did It - the Memoirs of Baron Fain, First Secretary of the Emperor's Cabinet

By Proctor Jones

Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General

By Marc Leepson

Napoleon and Wellington

By Andrew Roberts

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

By Professor Hugh Brogan

The Battle of the Casbah

By Paul Aussaresses

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John A Hall

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Sandra Smith

On Derrida

By Stephen Hahn

The Twins: The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance

By Peter Jacobs

Twelve Days on the Somme

By Sidney Rogerson, Malcolm Brown

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

By Dimbleby, Jonathan

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

By Moore, Lucy

Nelson: Love and Fame

By Edgar Vincent

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man

By Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend

By D. D. R. Owen (University of St Andrews)

Lonely Leader: Monty 1944-1945

By David Montgomery, Alistair Horne

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

By Michela Wrong

Cleopatre

By Joel Schmidt

Les guerres sans fin: Un historien, la France et l'Algérie

By Stora, Benjamin

Actuelles. Chroniques algeriennes

By Albert Camus

Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire

By Alex Lochrie

A Fifty-year Silence

By Miranda Richmond Mouillot

A Passion For Trees: The Legacy Of John Evelyn

By Maggie Campbell-Culver

Roman Britain (Historical Map & Guide)

By Ordnance Survey