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Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story

By Quill, Jeffrey

No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper

By Harris, John

Paris & Elsewhere

By Cobb, Richard

Fen Boy First

By Storey, Edward

Woodbrook (Arena Books)

By Thomson, David

As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War

By Smith, Emma

The Smoking Diaries Volume 2: The Year Of The Jouncer

By Gray, Simon

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Picador Books)

By Sheehan, Neil

Orwell in Spain (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George, Davison, Peter, Hitchens, Christopher

The Diary of Anais Nin 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944): 03

By Nin, Anais

The Time of My Life: Entertaining the Troops - Her Wartime Journals

By Joyce Grenfell, James Roose-Evans

Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

By Ilibagiza, Immaculée, Erwin, Steve

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

By Malan, Rian

My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette

By Pankhurst, Emmeline

Most Secret War (Wordsworth Military Library)

By Jones, R. V.

Only a Game?: The Diary of a Professional Footballer

By Dunphy, Eamon

The Invisible Wall

By Bernstein, Harry

Daughter of the River: An Autobiography

By Ying, Hong

Four Sisters of Hofei

By Chin, Ann-ping

On Hitler's Mountain

By Hunt

The Earl Of Petticoat Lane

By Miller, Andrew

George Mackay Brown: The Life

By Fergusson, Maggie

Edwina Mountbatten Biography

By Morgan, Janet

Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency

By Hamilton, Nigel

America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

By Bradford, Sarah

With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic

By Sledge, Eugene B

Franci's War: The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust

By Epstein, Franci Rabinek

Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth

By Hamann, Brigitte

Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father

By Mars-Jones, Adam

The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime

By Stapleton, Susannah