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A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

By Sara Wheeler

Stalin's Silver

By John Beasant

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

By Triona Holden

Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

Mother Ireland

By Edna O'Brien

Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe

By Richar Aldrich

We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF Landings In France 1940-1944

By Hugh Verity (Author)

THE FALLING ANGELS

By Walsh

The Great Train Robbery: A New History

By Jim Morris

Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat

By Sir Christopher Mallaby, Peter Hennessy

Queen Elizabeth II

By David Arscott

The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture

By Charles King

The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne

By David Fisher

Miracles of Life

By J. G. Ballard

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdottir

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

By Andrew Smith

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

TheGulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr ( Author ) ON Jan-30-2003, Paperback

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

By Larry Loftis

Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu

By Simon Callow

The Man Who Knew Too Much

By D. Russell

The Origins of the Final Solution

By Christopher Browning

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming