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Mr Nice: The Incredible Story of an Unconventional Life

By Marks, Howard, Welsh, Irvine

From A Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten bomb

By Knatchbull, Timothy

Behind Closed Doors

By Vickers, Hugo

Sisters: Heroic true-life stories from the nurses of World War Two

By Mortimer, Barbara

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

By Moorehead, Caroline

Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz

By Harding, Thomas

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

By Salman Rushdie

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By Davis, Wade

The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax, Lomax, Eric

Hurricane and Spitfire Pilots at War

By Kelly, Terence

Out Of The Wilderness: Diaries 1963-67

By Benn, Tony

When Daddy Came Home: How War Changed Family Life Forever

By Turner, Barry, Rennell, Tony

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

By Malan, Rian

Daisy Bates in the Desert

By Blackburn, Julia

Rediscovering Gandhi

By Chadha, Yogesh

Rillington Place, 1949: Report of an Inquiry by the Hon.Mr.Justice Brabin into the Case of Timothy John Evans (Uncovered Editions)

By Coates, Tim

My Family and Other Animals (Penguin Essentials)

By Durrell, Gerald, Gerald Durrell

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Milligan, Spike

The Queen - A Penguin Special

By Mary Wilson, Robert Blake, Donald Horne, Elizabeth Longford, Denis Judd, J H Plumb, Terry Coleman, Richard Baker, William Hamilton, Peregrine Worsthorne

Mother Ireland

By O'Brien, Edna, Bourke, Fergus

The Face of the Third Reich

By Fest, Joachim C., Bullock, M., Joachim C. FEST

Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall

By Milligan, Spike

The Americans: Letters from America On Our Life And Times, 1969-1979

By Cooke, Alistair

Hitler

By Fest, Joachim C

Night

By Wiesel, Elie, Wiesel, Marion, Elie Wiesel

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi, M. Desai, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, M.K.Gandhi

The Hiroshima Maidens: A Story of Courage, Compassion and Survival

By Barker, Rodney

Runaway

By Irvine, Lucy

America Observed: The Newspaper Years of Alistair Cooke

By Cooke, Alistair

The Big Wheel

By Thomas, Bruce