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Revolt in the Desert

By T. E. Lawrence

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

A War in Words

By Svetlana Palmer, Sarah Wallis

Churchill & Smuts: From Enemies to Lifelong Friends

By Richard Steyn

SOME SUNNY DAY

By Lynn, Dame Vera

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

By T. E. Lawrence

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

By Livia E. Bitton Jackson

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

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

By Mary Horlock

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By Michael Palin

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

By Nino Strachey

An Anzac's Story

By Roy Kyle, Bryce Courtenay

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

By Anne de Courcy

Hero

By Whiting, Charles

Fate is the Hunter

By Ernest K Gann

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS

By Gavin Mortimer

Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer's Life

By Richard Morris

Defying Hitler: A Memoir

By Haffner, Sebastian

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

By T.E. Lawrence, Angus Calder, Tom Griffith

Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration

By Noel Annan

The Lie: The enthralling Richard and Judy Book Club favourite

By Dunmore, Helen

Somme Mud

By E.P.F. Lynch, William Davies

The First of the Few: Fighter Pilots of the First World War

By Denis Winter

The First Heroes

By Craig Nelson

On the Front Line: True World War I Stories

By Jon E. Lewis

The Spirit of London

By Johnson, Boris

George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King

By David Cannadine

The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War

By James David Robenalt, John W. Dean

I Chose the Sky

By Leonard H. Rochford