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The Tribes Triumphant: Return Journey to the Middle East

By Charles Glass

An Anzac's Story

By Roy Kyle, Bryce Courtenay

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By Michael Palin

Joseph Gray's Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

By Livia E. Bitton Jackson

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

By T. E. Lawrence

SOME SUNNY DAY

By Lynn, Dame Vera

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

These for Remembrance: Memoirs of Six Friends Killed in the Great War

By John Buchan, Peter Vansittart

Letters From A Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends

By Bostridge, Mark, Bishop, Alan

The Letters

By T. E. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown

Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier

By John Terraine

Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General

By Elizabeth Greenhalgh (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

Memoirs of War, 1914-15

By Marc Bloch, Carole Fink, Carole Fink

Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell

By Jonathan King

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

To the Last Man: Spring, 1918

By Lyn Macdonald

The Magician: Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize

By Colm Toibin

The Unreturning Army

By Huntly Gordon

A War in Words

By Svetlana Palmer, Sarah Wallis

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

Revolt in the Desert

By T. E. Lawrence

The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands: Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War

By Selim Deringil

History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day

By DK, Adam Hart-Davis

Shackleton's Journey

By William Grill

The Reluctant Tommy: An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War

By Ronald Skirth, Duncan Barrett