Six Minutes in May - Nicholas Shakespeare [Churchill's assumption of power]
Cabinet's Finest Hour - David Owen
[Former Foreign Secretary writes of May 1940]
The World in Conflict - John Andrews
[A country by country round-up]
A Place for Everything - Judith Flanders
[History of the alphabet]
Birds in a Cage - Derek Niemann
[Birdwatchers in a Nazi POW Camp]
Providence Lost - Paul Lay
[Brilliant book about Cromwell's Protectorate]
Tidelands - Philippa Gregory
[Novel of The Civil War]
To Calais, in Ordinary Time - James Meek
[Novel set at time of Black Death written in a form of Middle English ; well worth the effort]
The Girl without Skin - Mads Peder Nordbo
[A fictional crime story set in Greenland with lots of history and culture; for fans of intelligent Scandinavian Noir]
Sentenced to Life - Clive James
[A must for poetry lovers]