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Hitler

By Ian Kershaw

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

By Larry Loftis

The Origins of the Final Solution

By Christopher Browning

The Man Who Knew Too Much

By D. Russell

Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu

By Simon Callow

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

By Mazower, Mark

Russian Journal

By Lee, Andrea

Into the Wild

By Krakauer, Jon

The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth

By Joachimsthaler, Anton, Bogler, Helmut

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Serge Klarsfeld

The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family

By Helen Rappaport

The Windsors: A Dynasty Revealed

By Whitehead, C, Brendon, Dr Piers

Special Tasks: Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness a Soviet Spymaster

By Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schector

Understanding Joseph Roth

By Sidney Rosenfeld, James Hardin

The Crown: The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977

By Robert Lacey

The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

By Victor Klemperer

Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5

By Major Robert Lyman

One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe

By Monica Dickens, Marina Lewycka

A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto

By Abraham Lewin, Antony Polonsky, C. Austin

Khiva to Samarkand: The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to the Heart of Turkestan

By Ella R. Christie

Edith Wharton and the French Riviera

By Elizabeth Collas

Rfk: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

By C.David Heymann

Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent

By Christopher J. Walker

Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By Daniel Rachel

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

Hitler: 1936-45 : Nemesis

By Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield)

In Thier Own Words: Untold Stories from the First World War

Judas

By Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange

My American Century

By Studs Terkel, Robert Coles