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Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast

By Douglas Hurd

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

"BB": A Celebration

By B. B., Tom Quinn, Denys Watkins-Pitchford

The Insider: Trapped In Saddam's Brutal Regime

By Ala Bashir

The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

By Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

Watching the Door

By Kevin Myers

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort-- the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal

By Alan Dershowitz

The Complete MAUS

By Spiegelman, Art

Out of Africa

By Isak Dinesen

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

The Prophet Outcast: Leon Trotsky, 1929-40

By Isaac Deutscher

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

By Queen Noor

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 7: Road to Victory

By Martin Gilbert

Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

By Richard Bassett

John Major: The Autobiography

By John Major

Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost

By Jonathan Fenby

Nancy Wake: The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy

By Peter FitzSimons

C S Lewis and the Catholic Church

By Joseph Pearce

Chinese Hordes and Human Waves

By Brigadier Brian Parritt, CBE CN

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Ramachandra Guha

I'll take the sunny side

By Gordon Forbes

Rab: The Life Of R.A. Butler

By Anthony Howard

The World's Greatest Scandals of the Twentieth Century

By Nigel Blundell

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

By Lynne Olson

In the Darkroom

By Susan Faludi

Diana: Story of a Princess

By Tim Clayton, Phil Craig