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Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

By Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

Prezza

By John Prescott

Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War

By Gen. Sir Peter de la Billiere

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy

By Ben Macintyre

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain

By Martin Williams

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

By Christopher Catherwood

The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France

By Ray Argyle, Maurice Vaisse

High Flight: The Life and Poetry of Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee

Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend

By Stephen Davis

Teacher Man

By McCourt, Frank

The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of the Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

By Julie Checkoway

Nothing For Tears

By Lali Horstmann

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

By Eddie Jaku

Truman

By David McCullough

Theodore Rex

By Edmund Morris

Fire in Babylon: How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet

By Simon Lister

The Coal Black Sea: Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War

By Stuart Heaver

Bertie: A Life of Edward VII

By Jane Ridley

A Grand Gossip: the Bletchley Park Diary of Basil Cottle, 1943-45

By Cottle, Basil, Hodsdon, James, Hodsdon, Judith

Lonely Leader: Monty 1944-1945

By David Montgomery, Alistair Horne

The Will to Survive: Three and a Half Years as a Prisoner of the Japanese

By Arthur Godman

Forgotten Voices of Burma: The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict

By JULIAN THOMPSON

The Stalin File

By MARTIN McCAULEY

Ike, 1890-1990: A Pictorial History

By Douglas Kinnard

Travels with Charley in Search of America

By John Steinbeck

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By David Grann

Bad Blood: A Memoir

By Sage, Lorna

Daughter of the River

By Hong Ying

The Wizard Of The Nile: The Hunt For Joseph Kony

By Matthew Green