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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

The Tribes Triumphant: Return Journey to the Middle East

By Charles Glass

The Arcanum

By Gleeson, Janet

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

I Sank The Bismarck

By John Moffat

Soldiers of the First World War (One Shot)

By Adams, Simon

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

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End

By Winston Churchill

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

The World

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War

By James David Robenalt, John W. Dean

We Were Soldiers Once...And Young: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

By L. Galloway, Joseph, Moore, Harold G

Britain's Best Kept Secret: Ultra's Base at Bletchley Park

By Ted Enever

George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King

By David Cannadine

Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan

By D R Thorpe