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The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi, Nuala, Duncan Barrett

Experiences of China

By Cradock, Percy

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Mukhina, Lena, Darragh, Amanda Love

Mrs Miles's Diary: The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front

By Miles, Constance, Partington, S. V.

Philosopher A Kind Of Life

By Honderich, Prof Ted, Ted

What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?: Women in World War II

By Nicholson, Mavis

The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit

By Blunkett, David

In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin

By Larson, Erik

Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table

By Stelzer, Cita

A Pacifist's War: 1

By Partridge, Frances

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface (Canons)

By Olivia Laing, Laing, Olivia

Rifleman - A Front Line Life

By Gregg, Victor

Gary's Golden Boots

By Gary Lineker, Lineker, Gary

The Phantom of the Open: Maurice Flitcroft, The World's Worst Golfer

By Murray, Scott, Farnaby, Simon

Churchill and Empire

By Lawrence James

The Man Who Was M.: Life of Charles Henry Maxwell Knight

By Masters

Dockland Apprentice

By Carpenter, David John

Reporter: A Memoir

By Hersh, Seymour M.

The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters

By de Courcy, Anne

A 1950s Childhood in Pictures

By Paul Feeney

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: 4

By Caro, Robert A

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood―and America―Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

By Mitchell, Greg

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

By Close, Frank

Escape from Sobibor

By Rashke, Richard L.

Jackdaw Cake: An Autobiography

By Lewis, Norman

S&J;Charles

By Junor, Penny

West End Girls

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

By Moorehead, Caroline

Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York Review Collections (Paperback))

By Powers, Thomas