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

By Young, Hugo, Trewin, Ion

Hitler

By Kershaw, Ian

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

By Orlando Figes

Duke of Hazard: The Wit and Wisdom of Prince Philip

By Dampier, Phil, Walton, Ashley

The House on the Sacred Lake

By Margaret J Anstee

The Laughter of Foxes: A Study of Ted Hughes (Liverpool English Texts and Studies): 38

By Keith Sagar

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

By Malcolmson, Patricia, Malcolmson, Robert

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

By Buergenthal, Thomas

Pius XII: The Hound of Hitler

By Gerard Noel

Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968

By Kovály, Heda, Epstein, Franci, Epstein, Helen

Journal

By Helene Berr

Blair Unbound

By Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon, Daniel Collings

Blair Unbound

By Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon, Daniel Collings

Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

By Talbot, David, David Talbot

The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink

By Olivia Laing

The Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-in)

By Hugh Ambrose

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By Davis, Wade

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Philipps, Roland

Free Radical: A Memoir

By Vince Cable

The File: A Personal History

By Ash, Timothy Garton

Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

By Carlin, John

The Vatican Pimpernel: The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O Flaherty

By Brian Fleming

Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman

By Brian Moynahan

Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman

By Brian Moynahan

Margaret Thatcher In Her Own Words

By Iain Dale

Ad and Wal: Values, duty, sacrifice in apartheid South Africa: A Story of Values, Duty, Sacrifice

By Peter Hain

Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister

By Michael Jago

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Fuller, Alexandra