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Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of the Second World War - A Secret History

By Peter Padfield

Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City

By Andrew Kirtzman

Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC

By Roger Field And Geoffrey Gordo, N Creed

Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell

By Piers Brendon

The Agatha Christie Miscellany

By Cathy Cook

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

By Anne Edwards

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

By Anne Edwards

Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters

By Jane Dunn

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale

Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman

By Itamar Rabinovich

Hunter to Hunted - Surviving Hitler's Wolf Packs: Diaries of a Merchant Navy Radio Officer, 1939-45

By Alex Anderson

Diana: Story of a Princess

By Tim Clayton, Phil Craig

In the Darkroom

By Susan Faludi

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

By Lynne Olson

The World's Greatest Scandals of the Twentieth Century

By Nigel Blundell

Rab: The Life Of R.A. Butler

By Anthony Howard

Out of Africa

By Isak Dinesen

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast

By Douglas Hurd

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

"BB": A Celebration

By B. B., Tom Quinn, Denys Watkins-Pitchford

The Insider: Trapped In Saddam's Brutal Regime

By Ala Bashir

The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

By Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

Watching the Door

By Kevin Myers

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort-- the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal

By Alan Dershowitz

The Complete MAUS

By Spiegelman, Art

Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost

By Jonathan Fenby