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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

By Sonia Purnell

The Benn Diaries, 1940-90

By Tony Benn, Ruth Winstone

India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power

By Pamela Mountbatten

Churchill: An Unruly Life

By Norman Rose

The Herald of Coming Good

By Gurdjieff, George, Smith, Sally Bedell

White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By David Talbot

Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics)

By George Orwell

One Man in His Time: Life of Billy McLean

By Xan Fielding

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir

By Jessica Mitford

The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

By Ivan Maisky, Gabriel Gorodetsky

John le Carré: The Biography

By Sisman, Adam

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

By McNamara, Robert S., Robert S. McNamara

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

By Suleika Dawson

Britain's Last Tommies: Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914-18 War in Their Own Words

By Richard Van Emden

Londongrad: From Russia with Cash;The Inside Story of the Oligarchs

By Hollingsworth, Mark, Lansley, Stewart

Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning

By Nick Kochan

The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940

By Isaac Deutscher

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921

By Isaac Deutscher

Brief Lives

By Paul Johnson

Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen

By Alison Weir

The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

By Hughes, Bettany

Reasons to Be Cheerful: from Punk to New Labour Through the Eyes of a Dedicated Troublemaker

By Steel, Mark

Trimble

By Henry McDonald

Tom Paine and Revolutionary America

By Foner

Mr Jones: The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Life and Death of Gareth Jones

By Martin Shipton

RFK: Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

By C. David Heymann

Special Relationships: People and Places

By Asa Briggs

The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

By Iain McCalman

Reign Of Henry VIII: The Personalities and Politics

By Dr David Starkey