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The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History

By Tessa Dunlop

Making the Best of Things: Life During the War Years

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

By Shirer, William L

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By Radden Keefe, Patrick

Guilty but Insane:: J. C. Bowen-Colthurst - Villain or Victim?

By James W. Taylor

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Helen Rappaport

The Rebecca Code: Rommel's Spy in North Africa and Operation Kondor

By Mark Simmons

Operation Mincemeat

By Ben Macintyre

Bandaging the Blitz

By Mrs Phyll Macdonald Ross, I. D. Roberts

Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

By Benjamin Ferencz

Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

By Sarah Shaw

One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton

By Barbara Winton

Writing by Candlelight

By E. P. Thompson, Gabriel

Taking Command

By General Sir David Richards

I Want to Go Home

By Catherine Jacobs

The Illustrated Long Walk To Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life

By Noor, Her Majesty Queen

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939-45

By Clare Campbell, Christy Campbell

Soldier Five

By Mike Coburn

The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War

By Tom Whipple

Supper with the Crippens: The true story of one of the most notorious murderers of all time

By David James Smith

The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

By Sheridan Morley, Graham Payn

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

By Natasha Walter

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century

By Tobias Buck

Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By Philipp von Boeselager

The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

By Heath Hardage Lee

Hero

By Whiting, Charles