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The Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-in)

By Ambrose, Hugh

The Man Who Ran the Moon: James Webb, JFK and the Secret History of Project Apollo

By Bizony, Piers

The Yellow On The Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman

By Whyte, Betsy

Edith's Story: The True Story of How One Young Girl Survived World War II

By Velmans, Edith, Hester

The Course of my Life: The Autobiography of Edward Heath

By Heath, Edward, Edward Heath, Sir

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

By Paul Addison (University of Edinburgh), Harriet Jones (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

How to Cure a Fanatic

By Amos Oz

The Day After the Revolution

By Slavoj Zizek, V I Lenin

In the Shadow of the Liberator: The Impact of Hugo Chavez on Venezuela and Latin America

By Richard Gott

Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944, Third Edition

By Peter Hoffmann

The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood

By William Woodruff

Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson

By andrew gimson

The Broken Boy

By Patrick Cockburn

The Prefab Kid: A Postwar Childhood in Kent

By Gregory Holyoake

Fighter Aces! the Constable Maxwell Brothers: Fighter Pilots in Two World Wars

By Alex Revell

RAF Bomber Stories: Dramatic First-hand Accounts of British and Commonwealth Airmen in World War 2

By Martin Bowman

Occupation Diaries

By Raja Shehadeh

Exile in Israel: A Personal Journey with the Palestinians

By Runa Mackay

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

Patton's Last Battle: The Spellmount Siegfried Line Series Volume Eight

By Charles Whiting

The Burma-Siam Railway: The Secret Diary of Dr.Robert Hardie, 1942-45

By Robert Hardie

The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

By Robert K. Massie

A Writer At War, A

By Vasily Grossman, Edited and Transla and

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Max Hastings

Killing Zone

By Harry McCallion

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

The Literary Churchill

By Jonathan Rose

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg