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Soldier 'I': The story of an SAS Hero

By Michael Paul Kennedy, Pete Winner, Andy McNab

Beyond No Mean Soldier: The Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator

By Peter McAleese

Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union

By Alex De Jonge

Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign: The Italian Front 1915-1918

By John Macdonald, Zeljko Cimpric

We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars

By Martin Pugh

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

By Wendy Lower

With Scott to the Pole: The Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-1913

By H. Ponting

Churchill: The Power of Words

By Winston S. Churchill, Dr Martin Gilbert

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

By Stapleton, Susannah

King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

By David Remnick, Salman Rushdie, Stuart Wilson

Running in the Family (Picador Books)

By Ondaatje, Michael

Commando: Winning World War II Behind Enemy Lines

By James Owen

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Maddox, Brenda

Wheels: This non-fiction picture book takes a look at all sorts of wheels.: Band 01b/Pink B (Collins Big Cat)

By Ridley, Frances, Collins Big Cat, Moon, Cliff

Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other

By John Preston, Elton John

The First World War

By John Keegan

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells & the Hunt for Putin’s Agents

By Corera, Gordon

The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

By Geve, Thomas, Inglefield, Charlie

Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War

By Rowland White

Franco: A Personal and Political Biography

By Stanley G. Payne, Jesús Palacios

The Myth of Black Progress

By Alphonso Pinkney

The Queen Mother Remembered: The Intimate Recollections of Her Friends, 1900-2002

By James Hogg, Michael Mortimer

Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics

By Augusto Boal

Personal Impressions

By Isaiah Berlin

William and Harry: The People's Princes

By Ingrid Seward

The Oster Conspiracy of 1938: The Unknown Story of the Military Plot to Kill Hitler and Avert World War II

By Terry M. Parssinen

Camilla and Charles: The Love Story

By Caroline Graham

The Royal Family at War

By Theo Aronson

From the Frontline: Family Letters and Diaries: 1914 to the Falklands and Afghanistan

By Hew Pike

People at War, 1939-1945

By michael moynihan