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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

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

By Gregg Herken

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

By Roger Osborne

A Late Education

By Alan moorehead

Einstein at Home

By Friedrich Herneck, Josef Eisinger, Alice Calaprice