Women Warriors: Ten Courageous Lives of Women Who Went to War
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After her beloved husband was forced to fight for William II, Mrs Christian 'Kit' Welsh was not...
Wounds: A Memoir of Love and War
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A family story of a murder, blood and betrayal that tore an Irish town apart and causes men to be...
Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero
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Nicholas Whittaker's much-loved classic recollects the long sunny days of his childhood when,...
Slim Jim: Simply the Best
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Jim Baxter was one of Scotland's greatest-ever football players, a left-footed wonder who became a...
Snow on the Equator: Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the Great African Odyssey
Chris Bonington, H.W. Tilman and Bob Comlay
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'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do...
So High a Blood: The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox
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'Who hopes still constantly with patience shall obtain victory in their claim' Sometime heir to the...
Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
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"I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief." (Richard Davenport-Hines, The Spectator). The...
Beryl
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I had a constant battle to get where I am today. Scrimping and scraping, people telling me not to do...
Boy About Town
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'I was no longer fitting in at school. I was unsure of my friends, and they were increasingly unsure...
Captain of the Carpathia: The Seafaring Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron
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Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of 15 April 1912, Captain Arthur Rostron...