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The Long Gray Line

By Rick Atkinson

Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

By Janina Bauman

Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women

By Nancy Costello, Kathleen Legg, Diane Croghan, Marie Slattery, Marina Gambold

Spitfire: The Autobiography

By Jon E. Lewis

Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter

By John Campbell

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

By Simon Fenwick

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

Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5

By Major Robert Lyman

Infidel: My Life

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

By Norman Mailer

Abba Eban: A Biography

By Asaf Siniver

I Was Hitler's Neighbour

By Edgar Feuchtwanger

A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz

By Goeran Rosenberg, Sarah Death, John Cullen

Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War

By Dr. Ronald Blythe

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

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

By Monica Waitzfelder, Peter Bush, Serge Klarsfeld

My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank

By Jacqueline van Maarsen, Hester Velmans

Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian

By Bernard Lewis, Buntzie Ellis Churchill

My American Century

By Studs Terkel, Robert Coles

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

By Serge Klarsfeld

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

By Anne de Courcy

Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent

By Christopher J. Walker