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Four Weeks in May: A Captain's Story of War at Sea

By David Hart-Dyke

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

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

Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams

By Williams, Shirley

Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams

By Williams, Shirley

World's End: A Memoir of a Blitz Childhood

By Donald James Wheal

Bolivian Diary

By Guevara, Che, Alvarez de Toledo, Lucia

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

By Charles Foster

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

By Kenny, Paul

Fifty Dead Men Walking

By Martin McGartland

The Man Who Knew Too Much (BFI Film Classics)

By Murray Pomerance

My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir

By Çetin, Fethiye

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

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

By Titchmarsh, Alan