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Somme Mud E P F Lynch
A dramatic, immediate, personal account of life in the trenches on the Western Front during the Great War...

The Great Wall John Man
The extraordinary story of China's wonder of the world

The Unknown Soldier Neil Hanson
This is the story of three soldiers: one British, one American and one German and how the grave of the unknown soldier and the ritual of Remembrance Day came to be.

Bird of Paradise Sarah Gristwood
The extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the first Mary Robinson, one of the 18th century's most admired, reviled and written-about women.

Sink the Belgrano Mike Rossiter
The dramatic and definitive account of the sinking of the Belgrano.

Ark Royal Mike Rossiter
In gripping detail, and using the testimony of survivors of the sinking and men who lived, flew and fought on the Ark Royal, Mike Rossiter tells the remarkable life and legend of this most famous of ships..