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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–45

By Stargardt, Nicholas

The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War

By Shephard, Ben

The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (Central European Studies)

By Gary B. Cohen

Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain

By Engel, Matthew

Living the Past

By Horsler, Val

Ancient Rome (Cultural Atlas for Young People)

By Evans, Gillian

The Hitler Emigrés: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism

By Snowman, Daniel

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich

By Jähner, Harald, Whiteside, Shaun

The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War

By Oltermann, Philip

The Nation's Favourite: A Book of the UK's Best-loved Things

By Mathew Clayton

Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook’s recently discovered ship

By Moore, Peter

Land of My Fathers

By Griffiths, Gwyn

The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death

By Bailey, Catherine

They Belonged to Glasgow: The City from the Bottom Up

By Rudolph Kenna, Ian Sutherland

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

By Broeck, Charlotte Van den, McKay, David

Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War

By Kelly, Tobias

Authenticity: How economics, evolution and technology drive us to deceive – and how we can fight back

By Sherwood, Alice

An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War

By Thomas, Donald

A Strange Eventful History: Democratic Socialism in Britain

By Dell, Edmund

Portraiture (Oxford History of Art)

By West, Shearer

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

By Deborah Davis

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

By McCullough, David

'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden: A History

By Brooks, Ann

Dickens's England: Life in Victorian Times

By Pritchard, R E

Obama: From Promise to Power

By Mendell, David

Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902

By Beaumont, Antony

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

By Meacham, Jon

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

By Iain McGilchrist

Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact

By Lucinda Hawksley

Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600

By Evelyn Welch