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The Backwash of War

By Ellen N La Motte

Queen of the Ploughing

By McHugh, Anna May

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

By Jane Yeadon, Yeadon, Jane

It Shouldn't Happen to a Midwife!

By Jane Yeadon, Yeadon, Jane

Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life

By Tidrick, Kathryn

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

By Fancy, John

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

By McKay, Sinclair

Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1946-60

By Moran, Lord John

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

By Rawicz, Slavomir

Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler: With an introduction by Nikolaus Wachsmann

By Buber-Neumann, Margarete, Wachsmann, Nikolaus

Through Fire and WaterHMS Ardent: The Forgotten Frigate of the Falklands

By Mark, Higgitt

After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind

By Ung, Loung

Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War

By Henry Allingham, Dennis Goodwin, HRH Prince Charles

Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero

By Sir Tommy Macpherson, Richard Bath

Mandela

By Hain, Peter

The Choice: A true story of hope

By Eger, Edith

When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain

By Titchmarsh, Alan

The Haunting Of Sylvia Plath (Virago classic non-fiction)

By Rose, Jacqueline

Soviet Aces of World War 2: 015 (Aircraft of the Aces)

By Morgan, Hugh, Weal, John

Diana, Princess Of Wales 1961-1997 : " A Tribute In Photographs "

By Michael O'Mara, Martin Bristow

Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words (Diana Princess of Wales)

By Morton, Andrew, Andrew Morton

The Vicar of Baghdad: Fighting for Peace in the Middle East

By Andrew White

After the Heavy Rain: Khmer Rouge killed his family. He tracked them - but not for revenge:

By Himm, Sokreaksa S.

Betty's Wartime Diary 1939-1945

By Betty Armitage

Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments

By Wieder, Joachim, Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf Von, Bogler, Helmut

The Battle for Britain (Second World)

By Haseler, Stephen

Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister

By Michael Jago

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Fuller, Alexandra

Debrett's: The Queen - The Diamond Jubilee

By Debrett's

The Nobel Century: A Chronicle of Genius

By Ramel, Stig, O'Brien, Conor Cruise, LE ROY LADURIE EMMANUEL, Briggs, Asa