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The Secret Listeners: How the Y Service Intercepted the German Codes for Bletchley Park

By McKay, Sinclair

Tunnelling to Freedom: The Story of the World's Most Persistent Escaper

By Fancy, John

Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life

By Tidrick, Kathryn

It Shouldn't Happen to a Midwife!

By Jane Yeadon, Yeadon, Jane

It Won't Hurt a Bit: Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

By Jane Yeadon, Yeadon, Jane

Queen of the Ploughing

By McHugh, Anna May

The Backwash of War

By Ellen N La Motte

My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir

By Çetin, Fethiye

The Man Who Knew Too Much (BFI Film Classics)

By Murray Pomerance

Fifty Dead Men Walking

By Martin McGartland

The Man Who Supercharged Bond: The Extraordinary Story of Charles Amherst Villiers

By Kenny, Paul

Breaking the Dams: The Story of Dambuster David Maltby and His Crew

By Charles Foster

Bolivian Diary

By Guevara, Che, Alvarez de Toledo, Lucia

World's End: A Memoir of a Blitz Childhood

By Donald James Wheal

Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams

By Williams, Shirley

Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams

By Williams, Shirley

The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage (History of British Intelligence)

By David Burke

The Spy Who Came in from the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage (History of British Intelligence) (History of British Intelligence, 2)

By David Burke

Trotsky for Beginners

By Tariq Ali, Phil Evans

Tito: The Story From Inside: The Story from the Inside

By Milovan, Djilas

Hitler: Military Commander

By Rupert Matthews

Alan Turing: Remarkable Lives

By Turing, Dermot

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 50 Years Jubilee Edition

By Hoey, Brian, Brian Hoey

The Fuhrer

By Heiden, Konrad

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo

By Wrong, Michela

The Che Handbook

By Hilda Barrio, Gareth Jenkins

Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks

By John Betjeman, Stephen Games

All for Freedom - A True story of escape from the Nazis

By D.T.A. Davies, Ioan Wyn Evans

Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847–1947

By Lebrecht, Norman

The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder (Vintage Editions)

By Modiano, Patrick