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Signalman Jones: Based on the Recollections of Geoffrey Holder-Jones

By Tim Parker

Trusted Mole: A Soldier's Journey into Bosnia's Heart of Darkness

By Milos Stankovic, Martin Bell, M.P.

Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)

By julian barnes

Himmler: Reichsfuhrer S.S.

By Peter Padfield

A King's Story: The Memoirs of HRH the Duke of Windsor, KG

By Duke of Windsor, Philip Ziegler

David Ervine: Uncharted Waters

By Henry Sinnerton

One Soldier's War In Chechnya

By Arkady Babchenko

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland

Mountbatten

By Philip Ziegler

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

Kwame Nkrumah: A Political Kingdom in the Third World

By David Rooney

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

By Judt, Tony

After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew

By Wilson, A.N.

When The Hills Ask For Your Blood: A Personal Stor

By David Belton

Censored 1998: The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories

By Peter Phillips, Project Censored, Danny Schechter, Tom Tomorrow

Lady Sings the Blues

By Billie Holiday

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

Lenin V3

By Robert Service

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song

By Paul Howard

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot's Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France

By Alastair Panton

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast

By Douglas Hurd

Watching the Door

By Kevin Myers

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Out of Africa

By Isak Dinesen

The Complete MAUS

By Spiegelman, Art

The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort-- the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal

By Alan Dershowitz

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

"BB": A Celebration

By B. B., Tom Quinn, Denys Watkins-Pitchford