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Do the birds still sing in Hell?

By Jim Greasley Horace, Ken Scott

Walk Across America

By Peter Jenkins

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson

By Sonia Purnell

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Powers of Being: David Holbrook and His Work

By Webb, Edwin

Lenin the Dictator

By Victor Sebestyen

The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth

By Joachimsthaler, Anton, Bogler, Helmut

Into the Wild

By Krakauer, Jon

Russian Journal

By Lee, Andrea

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

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

By Godwin, Peter

Infiltration: The True Story Of The Man Who Cracked The Mafia

By Colin McLaren

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

Churchill's Angels: How Britain's Women Secret Agents Changed the Course of the Second World War

By Bernard O'Connor

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

By Hadley Freeman

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By Orlando Figes

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max