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When Youth Was Mine: A Memoir of Kerry 1902-1925

By Murphy, Jeremiah

A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers (Oxford Paperback Series)

By O'Guiheen, Micheal

Churchill (Questions and Analysis in History)

By Heywood, Samantha

Ferguson's Gang: The Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters (National Trust History & Heritage)

By Bagnall, Polly, Beck, Sally

I Will Bear Witness 1933-1941: A Diary of the Nazi Years (Modern Library) (Living Language Series): A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941

By Victor Klemperer

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

By Carter, Miranda

Berlusconi's Shadow: Crime, Justice and the Pursuit of Power

By Lane, David

Lord Hailsham: A Life

By Lewis, Geoffrey M

About Time: Surviving Ireland's Death Row

By Pringle, Peter

Court Number One: The Trials and Scandals that Shocked Modern Britain

By Grant, Thomas

Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor

By Higham, Charles

A Strange Death: Espionage, Betrayal and Vengeance in a Village in Old Palestine and Israel

By Halkin, Hillel

Makers of Modern World Subscription: Makers of Modern World : Chaim Weizmann: The Zionist Dream (Makers of the Modern World)

By T G Fraser

American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

By Pierpont, Roth, Claudia

The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich

By Feigel, Lara

Asylum: A survivor’s flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna through wartime France

By Scheyer, Moriz, Singer, P.N.

A Prince of Our Disorder: Life of T.E. Lawrence: The Life of T. E. Lawrence

By Mack, John

Our Hidden Lives

By Garfield, Simon

From Sapper to Spitfire Spy: The WWII Biography of David Greville-Heygate Dfc

By Heygate, Sally-Anne Greville

In The Footsteps of Churchill

By Holmes, Richard

Churchill-Wilderness Years: The Wilderness Years

By Gilbert, Martin

The Hospital: How I survived the secret child experiments at Aston Hall

By Barbara O'Hare, O'Hare, Barbara

A Raid Over Berlin A Miraculous True-Life Second World War Survival Story

By John Martin

Ted Bundy: The Only Living Witness - One of the 10 best true crime books ever written (New York Daily News)

By Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth

The Soldier Who Came Back

By Steve Foster

Lone Wolf: The Remarkable Story of Britain's Greatest Nightfighter Ace of the Blitz - Flt Lt Richard Playne Stevens DSO, DFC & BAR

By Andy Saunders

Shackleton Boys: 1: Volume 1: True Stories from the Home-Based `Kipper Fleet’ Squadrons

By Steve Bond

No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson

By Sparrow, Jeff

An Alien Sky: The story of one man's remarkable adventure in Bomber Command during the Second World War

By Andrew Wiseman

Chile in my heart

By Clark, Kate