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Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis

By Spicer, Charles

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By Freedland, Jonathan

Last of the Summer Wine: The Inside Story of the World’s Longest-Running Comedy Programme: The Inside Story of the World’s Longest-Running Comedy Programme

By Vine, Andrew

As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers

By Calder

Life and Death in Shanghai

By Cheng, Nien

Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader (Life & Times)

By Leo Zeilig

Busted: Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America

By W.D. Ehrhart, H.Bruce Franklin

Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

By Frank, Katherine

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

By Anne Sebba

SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History

By David, Saul

William and Harry: The Biography of the Two Princes

By Seward, Ingrid

Charles and Camilla

By Brandreth, Gyles

Spinoza A Life

By Nadler, Steven

Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story Of A Belfast Paperboy Coming To Terms With The Troubles

By Tony Macaulay, Macaulay, Tony

The New Emperors: Mao and Deng - A Dual Biography

By Salisbury, Harrison

Alan Ayckbourn (Modern Dramatists)

By Billington, Michael

World War II: The Definitive Visual Guide

By DK

65 Years of Friendship: A Memoir of My Friendship With Nelson Mandela

By George Bizos

The Dictators: Hitler's Germany; Stalin's Russia

By Overy, Richard

The Gorbachev Factor

By Brown, Archie

Stalin: A Political Biography

By Isaac Deutscher, Deutscher, Isaac

Baldwin

By Jenkins, Roy

Hitler: A Study in Personality and Politics

By Carr, WILLIAM

Stalin: A Biography

By Service, Robert

Asquith

By Koss, Stephen E.

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (Oxford Paperback Reference)

By Oxford University Press

White House Years

By Kissinger, Henry

Churchill's Bomb: A hidden history of Britain's first nuclear weapons programme

By Farmelo, Graham

Conchie: What My Father Didn't Do in the War

By Gethin Russell-Jones