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The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London

By Lisa Hilton

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

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

By Tom Whipple

Soldier Five

By Mike Coburn

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

By Clare Campbell, Christy Campbell

A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life

By Noor, Her Majesty Queen

The Illustrated Long Walk To Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

I Want to Go Home

By Catherine Jacobs

Taking Command

By General Sir David Richards

Writing by Candlelight

By E. P. Thompson, Gabriel

One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton

By Barbara Winton

Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

By Sarah Shaw

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

By Benjamin Ferencz

Bandaging the Blitz

By Mrs Phyll Macdonald Ross, I. D. Roberts

Operation Mincemeat

By Ben Macintyre

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

By Mark Simmons

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Helen Rappaport

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

By James W. Taylor

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

By Radden Keefe, Patrick

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

By Shirer, William L

Making the Best of Things: Life During the War Years

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

By Tessa Dunlop

Los Intelectuales del Partido Comunista: Itinerario de Hector Agosti (1930-1963)

By Laura Prado Acosta

Broadcasts From the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War

By Phillip Seib

Let Every Nation Know: John F. Kennedy in His Own Words

Anthony Eden

By Robert Rhodes James

The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost

By Patrick Marnham

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942

By Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt, Euan Cameron

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-belonger

By Richard Pipes