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The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963

By Tim Coates

Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

By Peter Coyote

Going to the Wars

By Max Hastings

A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994

By Ian Marchant

In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

By Danny Goldberg

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision

By Bettina L. Knapp

Troublesome Young Men: the Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power in 1940 and Helped to Save Britain

By Lynne Olson

The Italians (Large Print Edition)

By John Hooper

Tin Ring: Love and Survival in the Holocaust

By Zdenka Fantlova

The Arrogance of Power : the Secret World of Richard Nixon / Anthony Summers ; with Robbyn Swan

By Summers, Anthony

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

By Demick, Barbara, Barbara Demick

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max

Powers of Being: David Holbrook and His Work

By Webb, Edwin

Lenin the Dictator

By Victor Sebestyen

The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth

By Joachimsthaler, Anton, Bogler, Helmut

Into the Wild

By Krakauer, Jon

Russian Journal

By Lee, Andrea

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

By Mazower, Mark

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu

By Simon Callow

The Man Who Knew Too Much

By D. Russell

The Origins of the Final Solution

By Christopher Browning

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

By Larry Loftis

Hitler

By Ian Kershaw

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM