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Growing Up in the Gorbals

By Glasser, Ralph

1914 (VCs of the First World War)

By Gliddon, Gerald

Marshal Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin

By Tony Le Tissier

Vintage Champagne on the Edge of Space: The Supersonic World of a Concorde Stewardess

By Armstrong, Sally

Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbrück

By Peter Hore

The Queen and Mrs Thatcher: An Inconvenient Relationship

By Palmer

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Born 1900

By Davies, Hunter

A Passage To Africa

By Alagiah, George

Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war

By Shillington, Evelyn, Fox, Barbara

Diana:The Untold Story (Diana Princess of Wales)

By Kay, Richard, Levy, Geoffrey

From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45

By Joanna Moody

The Woman Who Censored Churchill

By Ruth Ive

A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping

By Paul Feeney

Women of Intelligence: Winning the Second World War with Air Photos

By Halsall, Christine

Hitler's Valkyrie: The Uncensored Biography of Unity Mitford

By David R L. Litchfield

Escape from Broadmoor: The Trials and Strangulations of John Thomas Straffen

By Lowe, Gordon

The Life and Times of Saddam Hussain

Allen Ginsberg: A Biography

By Miles, Barry

Che Guevara

By Sandison, David

Spitfire Pilot (Transport)

By Crook, David, Vigors, Tim

Major: A Political Life

By Seldon, Anthony

Balfour: A Life of Arthur James Balfour (Phoenix Giants S.)

By Egremont, Max

Stalin: Breaker Of Nations (Phoenix Giants S.)

By Conquest, Robert

Like The Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell

By Heffer, Simon

Rasputin: The Last Word

By Edvard Radzinsky, Judson Rosengrant

The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters (Women in History)

By de Courcy, Anne

The Last Diaries: In and Out of the Wilderness

By Clark, Alan, Trewin, Ion, Alan Clark

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Fuller, Alexandra

The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue: How one man saved the British monarchy

By Mark Logue, Peter Conradi