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Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy

By MacIntyre, Ben

Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War

By Matthews, Owen

ITALIAN NEIGHBOURS : An Englishmen in Verona

By Parks, Tim

River of Time

By Swain, Jon

Churchill, Winston S.: Challenge of War v. 3

By Gilbert, Martin

Mr Nice

By Howard Marks, Marks, Howard

Simon Weston: Moving On

By Weston OBE, Simon

Medical Pioneers (20th Century Lives)

By Champion, Neil

Growing Up in the Gorbals

By Glasser, Ralph

1914 (VCs of the First World War)

By Gliddon, Gerald

Marshal Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin

By Tony Le Tissier

Vintage Champagne on the Edge of Space: The Supersonic World of a Concorde Stewardess

By Armstrong, Sally

Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbrück

By Peter Hore

The Queen and Mrs Thatcher: An Inconvenient Relationship

By Palmer

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Born 1900

By Davies, Hunter

A Passage To Africa

By Alagiah, George

Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war

By Shillington, Evelyn, Fox, Barbara

Diana:The Untold Story (Diana Princess of Wales)

By Kay, Richard, Levy, Geoffrey

From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45

By Joanna Moody

The Woman Who Censored Churchill

By Ruth Ive

A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping

By Paul Feeney

Women of Intelligence: Winning the Second World War with Air Photos

By Halsall, Christine

Hitler's Valkyrie: The Uncensored Biography of Unity Mitford

By David R L. Litchfield

Escape from Broadmoor: The Trials and Strangulations of John Thomas Straffen

By Lowe, Gordon

The Life and Times of Saddam Hussain

Allen Ginsberg: A Biography

By Miles, Barry

Che Guevara

By Sandison, David

Spitfire Pilot (Transport)

By Crook, David, Vigors, Tim

Major: A Political Life

By Seldon, Anthony