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The Broken Boy

By Patrick Cockburn

The Prefab Kid: A Postwar Childhood in Kent

By Gregory Holyoake

Fighter Aces! the Constable Maxwell Brothers: Fighter Pilots in Two World Wars

By Alex Revell

RAF Bomber Stories: Dramatic First-hand Accounts of British and Commonwealth Airmen in World War 2

By Martin Bowman

Occupation Diaries

By Raja Shehadeh

Exile in Israel: A Personal Journey with the Palestinians

By Runa Mackay

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

Patton's Last Battle: The Spellmount Siegfried Line Series Volume Eight

By Charles Whiting

The Burma-Siam Railway: The Secret Diary of Dr.Robert Hardie, 1942-45

By Robert Hardie

The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

By Robert K. Massie

A Writer At War, A

By Vasily Grossman, Edited and Transla and

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Max Hastings

Killing Zone

By Harry McCallion

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

The Literary Churchill

By Jonathan Rose

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing

By Jane Dunn

Monopoli Blues

By Tim Clark, Nick Cook

Great Boys: An African Childhood

By Tanure Ojaide

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

"Are You Strong, Lass?": "You'll Need to be Working Here...: Memoirs from a 1970s Yorkshire Classroom

By Kath Padgett

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

By L. Trotskii

Taking Command

By General Sir David Richards

Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn

Reporting Royalty: Behind the Scenes with the BBC's Royal Correspondent

By Jennie Bond

Flying Free

By Nigel P. Farage

Shadows of a Forgotten Past: To the Edge with the Rhodesian SAS and Selous Scouts

By Paul French

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

By Ayesha Jalal (Columbia University, New York)