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Tin Ring: Love and Survival in the Holocaust

By Zdenka Fantlova

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

By Godwin, Peter

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45

By Ranfurly Countess of Ranfurly, Hermione

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Hitler

By Ian Kershaw

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

By Larry Loftis

The Origins of the Final Solution

By Christopher Browning

The Man Who Knew Too Much

By D. Russell

Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu

By Simon Callow

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

By Mazower, Mark

Russian Journal

By Lee, Andrea

Into the Wild

By Krakauer, Jon

The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth

By Joachimsthaler, Anton, Bogler, Helmut

Lenin the Dictator

By Victor Sebestyen

Powers of Being: David Holbrook and His Work

By Webb, Edwin

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

By Demick, Barbara, Barbara Demick

The Arrogance of Power : the Secret World of Richard Nixon / Anthony Summers ; with Robbyn Swan

By Summers, Anthony

Secrets and Lies

By Christine Keeler

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

By Tariq Ali

Hitler's Last Days

By Gerhard Boldt, S. Bance

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

By David Maraniss

Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E.Lawrence

By J. M. Wilson