Here goes:
Reach for the Sky, Paul Brikhill on Douglas Bader
Night Fighter, Bob Braham
My Family And Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
Far From the Madding Cloud, Thomas Hardy
Snow and Steel, Peter Caddick-Adams
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Churchill, Roy Jenkins
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, Christopher Andrew
And if I could only keep one, it would be:
Night Fighter, Bob Braham
