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The Magician: Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize

By Colm Toibin

To the Last Man: Spring, 1918

By Lyn Macdonald

Churchill and the Dardanelles

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

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher

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

By Jonathan King

Memoirs of War, 1914-15

By Marc Bloch, Carole Fink, Carole Fink

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

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

Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier

By John Terraine

The Letters

By T. E. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown

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

By Bostridge, Mark, Bishop, Alan

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

By John Buchan, Peter Vansittart

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

Ten Dead Men: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

By Beresford, David

Young Hitler: The Making of the Fuhrer

By Paul Ham (author)

Lenin: Liberator or Oppressor?

By John Laver

Boy Soldiers of the Great War

By Richard Van Emden

The First World War Story

By Rob Attar

Adventures and Inventions of Stewart Blacker

By Barnaby Blacker

Donald Dean VC: The Memoirs of a Volunteer & Territorial from Two World Wars

By Terry Crowdy, Susan Bavin

Darwin: Adrian Desmond & James R. Moore

By Desmond, Adrian, Moore, James R

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By Scott Anderson

The Meakin Diaries - Sheffield in the Trenches

By Penny Meakin

Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Rappaport, Helen

Becoming Queen

By Kate Williams

The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914

By Christopher Sandford

A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's youngest child

By Mary Soames

The Man Who Created the Middle East

By Sykes, Christopher Simon

Man Who Invented Hitler

By David Lewis

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-1945

By Ursula Wyndham

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By Michael Palin