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Call the Midwife

By Worth, Jennifer

Memories of the Gorbals

By Caplan, Jack

Wittgenstein for Beginners

By Heaton, John

Mandela for Beginners

By Tony Pinchuck, Roger Trask, Nelson Mandela

The Boy John Letters

By Grapes, S., Skipper, Keith

Born On The Fourth Of July

By Kovic, Ron

I Thought as a Child: Growing Up in St.Helens in the 1930s and 1940s

By Menzies, Barbara H.

The Defending Officer's Dog: A Royal Engineer Abroad in the Second World War

By Cripps, Jack H. H., Shawe-Taylor, Rose

Memories of Maggie: A Portrait of Margaret Thatcher

By Dale, Iain

Land Girls at the Old Rectory

By Irene Grimwood

A Land Girl's War

By Joan Mary Snelling

Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defence of the Homeland

By Norbert Hannig, John Weal

Ireland: The Ducal Days

By Twist, Michael

Fighting Fitt: The Gerry Fitt Story

By Ryder, Chris

Nine Lives

By Parry, Sandor

The Son from the West: From Comfort to Danger Zone

By Evelyn Cromer

Peking Story

By David Kidd

Where the Hell Have You Been?: Monty, Italy and One Man's Incredible Escape

By Carver, Tom

Golda Meir: The Iron Lady of the Middle East: The First Woman Prime Minister in the West

By Elinor Burkett

World War II Commanders: From the Attack on Poland to the Surrender of Japan

By Ian Westwell

1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall

By Peter Millar

Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

By Mavis Batey

The Spitfire Smiths: A Unique Story of Brothers in Arms

By Rod Smith, Christopher Shores

Mannock: The Life and Death of Major Edward Mannock VC, DSO, MC, RAF

By Norman L.R. Franks, Andy Saunders

Tally Ho!: From the Battle of Britain to the Defence of Darwin

By R.W. Foster, Norman L.R. Franks

A Pathfinder's War: An Extraordinary Tale of Surviving Over 100 Bomber Operations Against All Odds

By Flt Lt Ted Stocker, Sean Feast

Brotherhood of the Skies: Wartime Experiences of a Gunner Officer and Typhoon Pilot: Wartime experiences of a gunnery officer and Typhoon pilot

By David Ince

Dowding of Fighter Command

By Vincent Orange

Churchill's Navigator: Stories from Air Commodore John Mitchell's career including his time as Churchill's navigator

By John Mitchell, Sean Feast

My Golden Flying Years: From 1918 Over France, Through Iraq in the 1920s, to the Schneider Trophy Race of 1927

By D. D'arcy A. Greig, Norman L.R. Franks, Simon Muggleton