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Tin Ring: Love and Survival in the Holocaust

By Zdenka Fantlova

The Arrogance of Power : the Secret World of Richard Nixon / Anthony Summers ; with Robbyn Swan

By Summers, Anthony

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

By Demick, Barbara, Barbara Demick

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max

Powers of Being: David Holbrook and His Work

By Webb, Edwin

Lenin the Dictator

By Victor Sebestyen

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

By Joachimsthaler, Anton, Bogler, Helmut

Into the Wild

By Krakauer, Jon

Russian Journal

By Lee, Andrea

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

By Mazower, Mark

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu

By Simon Callow

The Man Who Knew Too Much

By D. Russell

The Origins of the Final Solution

By Christopher Browning

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

By Larry Loftis

Hitler

By Ian Kershaw

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM

To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45

By Ranfurly Countess of Ranfurly, Hermione

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

By Godwin, Peter

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By Orlando Figes

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

By Hadley Freeman

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

Churchill's Angels: How Britain's Women Secret Agents Changed the Course of the Second World War

By Bernard O'Connor

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

Infiltration: The True Story Of The Man Who Cracked The Mafia

By Colin McLaren