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Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II

By Gregory A. Freeman

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and her People

By Andrew Marr

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

By Keggie Carew

Monty: His Part in My Victory

By Milligan, Spike

The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis

By Robert Verkaik

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

By Philip Short

Sweetening Bitter Sugar: Jock Campbell - The Booker Reformer in British Guiana 1934-1966

By Clem Seecharan

Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

By Alison Pargeter

My Friend the Enemy: My Childhood in Nazi Germany

By Paul Briscoe, Michael McMahon

Joe's War - My Father Decoded: A Daughter's Search for Her Father's War

By Annette Kobak

3 Para

By Bishop, Patrick

An Advertisement for Toothpaste: Ryszard Kapuscinski (Penguin Modern)

By Kapuscinski, Ryszard, Brand, WILLIAM

Seminary Boy

By Cornwell, John

Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland

By Steve Bruce (Head of School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen)

A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson

By Peter J. Conradi

Office Without Power: Diaries 1968-72

By Benn, Tony

The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika

By Michael Longford

Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56

By Elizabeth Hodgkin

The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Journal of Colonial and Foreign Service

By Richard Posnett, David FWD>Owen

After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism

By Robin Blackburn, Alexander Cockburn, Diane Elson, e p thompson, Eduardo Galeano

Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

By David Caute

Constance Street: The true story of one family and one street in London's East End

By Connelly, Charlie

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink

By McCarten, Anthony

Private Battles

By Simon Garfield

Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war

By Andrew March, Christopher Cocksworth

Biafra Story

By Frederick Forsyth

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By Sir Max Hastings

A Passage To Africa

By Alagiah, George

Qut of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (englischsprachig)

By Blixen Karen, Blixen, Karen

A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses

By Tskenya-Sarah Frazer