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The Silver Spitfire: The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in his Own Words

By Wg Cdr Tom Neil

Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

By Widdecombe, Ann

The Road Back to Paris

By Leibling, A.J.

Tiger Moths to Typhoons: The Story of a World War Two Fighter Pilot

By Watson, Peter, Parlour, Andy, Parlour, Sue

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge: An Illustrated Biography

By Maloney, James

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

By Vale, Allison

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

Trumbo: A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist - Now a major motion picture

By Cook, Bruce

To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War

By Venning, Annabel

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography

By Damon Hill

The Quest for Queen Mary

By Pope-Hennessy, James, Vickers, Hugo

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

Diary of a Man in Despair (New York Review Books Classics)

By Reck, Friedrich, Evans, Richard, Rubens, Paul

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas

By Mayer, Jane, Abramson, Jill

Between Five Eyes: Fifty Years Inside the Intelligence Community

By Wells, Anthony R

Teenage Resistance Fighter: With the Maquisards in Occupied France

By Verneret, Hubert, Depardon, Patrick

American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics Of Russell W. Volckmann: The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and became “Father” of Special Forces

By Guardia, Mike

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich

By Eric Metaxas

Governance and Leadership - Debating the African Condition: Mazrui and His Critics, Volume Two: 2

By Mazrui, Alamin, Mutunga, Willy

Turn Left at the Black Cow: One Family's Journey from Beverly Hills to Ireland

By McKenzie, Richard

The Holy Goof: Biography of Neal Cassady

By Plummer, WILLIAM

HUSBAND OF A FANATIC : A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate

By Amitava Kumar

Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

By Bhutto, Fatima

The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words

By Ingrid Seward

Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974

By Ayers, Bill, Dohrn, Bernardine, Jones, Jeff

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

By Baldwin, Neil