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Writer of the Month

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Agent Zigzag

by Ben Macintyre
If you love John Le Carre you will be unable to put down this intriguing and action-packed tale of Eddie Chapman, a real-life double agent operating in the Second World War.
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Berlin

by Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich
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Children of Henry VIII

by John Guy
John Guy returns to the archives to tell the stories of the children of Henry VIII, Henry Fitzroy, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, drawing on a vast array of contemporary records, personal letters, and first-hand accounts.
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Distilling the Frenzy

by Peter Hennessy
One of Britain's leading contemporary historians revisits and expounds upon the grand themes that have run throughout twentieth and twenty-first century Britain.
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Double Cross

by Ben Macintyre
The story of the D-Day spies, one of the oddest military units ever assembled. These double agents, variously, brave, treacherous, fickle, greedy and inspired were not conventional warriors, but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless lives.
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If Walls Could Talk

by Lucy Worsley
Accompanies Lucy Worsley's BBC TV series. This intimate history of British home life reveals much about the house and the people who have lived there over the centuries.
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Operation Mincemeat

by Ben Macintyre
Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest.
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Seasons in the Sun

by Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Sandbrook recreates the extraordinary period of the late 1970s in all its chaos and contradiction, revealing it as a decisive point in our recent history.
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Stalingrad

by Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad" is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments.
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Thomas Becket

by John Guy
Drawing on a vast array of contemporary records, personal letters and first-hand accounts, John Guy has reconstructed a psychologically compelling, stunningly nuanced and utterly convincing account of this most remarkable man.
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