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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

Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

By Titchmarsh, Alan

The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics - off the record

By Young, Hugo, Trewin, Ion

Hitler

By Kershaw, Ian

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

By Himm, Sokreaksa S.

Elizabeth the Queen Mother: A Twentieth Century Life [Large Print]

By Forbes, Grania

Hungry for Home

By Cole Moreton

The Nobel Century: A Chronicle of Genius

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

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

By Morton, Andrew

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

By Andrew White

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

By Dumbach, Annette, Newborn, Jud

The State Vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial That Changed South Africa

By Joel Joffe

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

By Rose, Jacqueline