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Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There

By Bailey, Roderick

3 Commando: Helmand Assault

By Ewen Southby-Tailyour

Hannah: The Complete Story

By Hauxwell, Hannah, Cockcroft, Barry

Family Secrets

By Malcolm, Derek

The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Family's War Time Courage

By Kelly, Clara Olink, Clara Olink Kelly

1 Out Of 10: From Downing Street Vision To Classroom Reality

By Hyman, Peter

Little Girl Lost (Richard & Judy's True)

By Probert-Wright, Barbie, Ritchie, Jean

Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore'

By Weir, Alison

The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness

By Campbell, Alastair

Against the Tide: Diaries, 1973-77

By Benn, Tony

My Turn

By Reagan, Nancy, Novak, WILLIAM

The End Of An Era: Diaries 1980-1990

By Benn, Tony

Rommel? Gunner Who?

By Milligan, Spike, Spike Milligan

Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol.1:1884-1933: Volume One, 1884-1933

By Cook, Blanche Wiesen

A Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon

By Katherine Frank, Lucie Austin Duff-Gordon

A Tuscan Childhood

By Beevor, Kinta

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

By Gatrell, Anthony, Lawrence, T.E., Thomas Edward

Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia

By Asher, Michael

The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream

By Lamb, Christina

The Real James Herriot: The Authorized Biography

By Wight, Jim

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

By Winchester, Simon

The Lost Messiah: The Astonishing Story of Sabbatai Sevi, Whose Messianic Movement Emerged from the Mysticism of the Kabbalah

By Freely, John

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

By Kapuscinski, Ryszard, Glowczewska, Klara, Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

By Greenspan, Alan

Mozart: A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics)

By Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Eisen, Cliff, Spencer, Stewart

Rahel Varnhagen: the Life of a Jewish Woman

By Arendt, Hannah

Leonardo

By Kemp, Mr Martin

Blake Complete Writings: With variant readings (Oxford Standard Authors)

By Blake, WILLIAM, Keynes, Sir Geoffrey

Letters of John Keats: A Selection.

By John Keats, Robert Gittings

Praeterita: Autobiography (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Ruskin, John, Clark, Kenneth