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Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist

By Andrew Robinson

Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens

By Stefan Buczacki

The Blue Door: A little girl's incredible story of survival in the Japanese POW camps of Java

By Lise Kristensen

Andree's War: How One Young Woman Outwitted the Nazis

By Francelle Bradford White

Adolf Hitler

Dresden: A Survivor's Story, February 1945

By Victor Gregg, Rick Stroud

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

By Greg Grandin

A Late Education

By Alan moorehead

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

By Roger Osborne

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

By Gregg Herken

Einstein at Home

By Friedrich Herneck, Josef Eisinger, Alice Calaprice

Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

By Rochus Misch

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

By Laurence Rees

Heinrich Himmler

By Peter Longerich (Professor of Modern German History, Royal Holloway University of London)

The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives

By Ada Petrova, Peter Watson

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

By MacIntyre, Ben

Saddam: The Secret Life

By Con Coughlin

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

The Letters

By T. E. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown

Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir

By Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

Public Secrets: Collected Skirmishes of Ken Knabb, 1970-1997

By Ken Knabb

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

By Justin Webb

The Soong Dynasty

By Sterling Seagrave

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

By Lee Kuan Yew

Jihad!: The Secret War in Afghanistan

By Carew, Tom

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)