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A Child's War: The German Occupation of Guernsey as seen through young eyes...

By Molly Bihet, Sir John Loveridge

Shot at Dawn: Executions in World War One by Authority of the British Army Act

By Putkowski, Julian, Sykes, Julian

Stuff and Nonsense: Observations of a Norfolk Scot

By Bruce-Lockhart, Logie

A Likely Story

Berlin Diary: Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

By Shirer, William L.

A Joyful Pilgrimage: My Life in Community (Bruderhof History)

By Arnold, Emmy

Meeting at Potsdam

By BB, Mee Jr., Charles L

Debrett's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By Garner, Valerie

Reagan and the World: Imperial Policy in the New Cold War

By McMahan, Jeff

Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction)

By Vera Brittain, Shirley Williams, Mark Bostridge

Life as We Have Known it (Virago Reprint Library) (Virago Reprint Library, No 1)

By Llewelyn Davies, Margaret

The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Chruchill

By Churchill, Sir Winston S., Halle, Kay

The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

By Arkady Ostrovsky

Alicia: Memoirs of A Survivor

By Appleman-Jurman, Alicia

The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue

By Mark Logue, Peter Conradi

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Fuller, Alexandra

Roads to Berlin

By Nooteboom, Cees, Watkinson, Laura, Watkinson, Laura

This Life of Grace

By Symons, John

Pius XII and the Second World War

By Pierre S.J. Blet

Years of Change

By Soper, Mike

Buttercup Jill

By Grayson, Peggy

Violette Szabo: The Life That I Have

By Susan Ottaway

The Many Lives of Miss K: Toto Koopman - Model, Muse, Spy

By Liaut, Jean-Noel, Jacobs, Denise Raab

Tony Benn New Edition

By David Powell

Killing Freud: 20th Century Culture and the End of Psychoanalysis

By Dufresne, Todd

Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968

By Passerini, Luisa

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

By Jennifer Worth

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London (Call The Midwife)

By Jennifer Worth

Tales from a Midwife: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s

By Worth, Jennifer

Farewell To The East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives (Call The Midwife)

By Worth, Jennifer, Jennifer Worth