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Does the Public Get What it Deserves?

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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

By Laura Spinney

He Won’t Convert Us

Ruling Britannia

By Andrew Marr

Critical Times

Choose Caerphilly

The Oxford Companion to Cheese

By Catherine Donnelly (ed)

Sea Changes

Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea

By Jan Rüger

A Turbulent Continent

The Struggle for Europe: The History of the Continent since 1945

By William I Hitchcock

Shelf Help

Annus Horribilis

1916: A Global History

By Keith Jeffery

Elegy: The First Day on the Somme

By Andrew Roberts

Guilty Parties

The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939–45

By Nicholas Stargardt

Heirs & Graces

Victoria: Queen, Matriarch, Empress

By Jane Ridley

William III & Mary II: Partners in Revolution

By Jonathan Keates

James II: The Last Catholic King

By David Womersley

Through Ice & Snow

Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble

By Antony Beevor

An Unlucky Man

Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon, 1897-1977

By D R Thorpe

The Return of Supermac

The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950-1957

By Peter Catterall (ed)

Spare-Time Soviet

Prokofiev: From Russia To The West 1891-1935

By David Nice

Where’s Monty?

An Army at Dawn: The War In North Africa, 1942-1943

By Rick Atkinson

The Enemy Within

An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War

By Donald Thomas

Culture Clash

The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War

By David Caute

A Decent Sort

Memoirs

By Douglas Hurd

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Patrolling The Globe

'A Problem From Hell': America and the Age of Genocide

By Samantha Power