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Alicia: Memoirs of A Survivor

By Appleman-Jurman, Alicia

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

By Arkady Ostrovsky

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

By Churchill, Sir Winston S., Halle, Kay

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

By Llewelyn Davies, Margaret

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

By Vera Brittain, Shirley Williams, Mark Bostridge

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

By McMahan, Jeff

Debrett's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By Garner, Valerie

Meeting at Potsdam

By BB, Mee Jr., Charles L

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

By Arnold, Emmy

Berlin Diary: Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

By Shirer, William L.

A Likely Story

Stuff and Nonsense: Observations of a Norfolk Scot

By Bruce-Lockhart, Logie

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

By Putkowski, Julian, Sykes, Julian

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

By Molly Bihet, Sir John Loveridge

The Queen's Golden Jubilee Official Souvenir Programme

By Silvester, Gaythorne

Despatches From the Home Front: The War Diaries of Joan Strange 1939-1945

By Joan Strange, Chris McCooey

Tiger Moths to Typhoons: The Story of a World War Two Fighter Pilot

By Watson, Peter, Parlour, Andy, Parlour, Sue

Inside Stalin's Russia: The Diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930-1934

By Bullard, Reader, Bullard, Julian, Bullard, Margaret, Hurd, Rt. Hon Lord Douglas

A Yeoman of England: A Collection of Essays Dedicated to Henry Plumb, the Lord Plumb of Coleshill

By Wertwyn, Puck, MacGregor, John

Another Man's Shoes

By Somme, Sven

Sixty Years on: 1944-1945 Remembered

By David Arnold, Vera Lynn

Moondrop to Gascony

By Anne Marie Walters

Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad

By Oliver Poole

The First Communist in Fort Jameson: Recollections of Africa and other places 1955-2018

By Watt, Nigel

Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union

By Anionwu, Elizabeth N

M. I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and his Impact (Cambridge Classical Studies)

By Jew, Daniel, Osborne, Robin, Scott, Michael

A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (Vintage)

By French, Howard W

Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust

By Immaculée Ilibagiza

Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler

By Simon Dunstan, Gerrard Williams

Ted Hughes: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

By Roberts, Neil