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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940

By Patrick Bishop

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Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945

By Rankin, Nicholas

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A Touch of Class: Story of Austin Reed

By Ritchie, Berry

Mandate Days: British Lives in Palest

By Sherman, A

World War II The Definitive Visual Guide

By DK, Holmes, Richard

The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor

By Wilson, A. N.

When I Was a German, 1934-1945: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany

By Christabel Bielenberg, Klemens von Klemperer

Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War

By Goodwin, Dennis, Allingham, Henry

A Little Girl's War

By Appleton, Wendy

Testament Of A Peace Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain

By Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan

The King of the Barbareens

By Hitchman, Janet

Michael Ramsey: A Life

By Chadwick, Owen

In Search of a Past: Manor House, Amnersfield, 1933-45

By Fraser, Ronald

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Warlord: Churchill at War: 1874-1945

By D'Este, Carlo

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943

By Gabriel Gorodetsky

Winston Churchill: Politics, Strategy and Statecraft

By Toye, Richard

King Edward VIII: An American Life

By Powell, Ted

The History of a History Man: Or, the Twentieth Century Viewed from a Safe Distance. The Memoirs of Patrick Collinson (Church of England Record Society)

By Patrick Collinson

Finding Tipperary Mary

By Phyllis Whitsell

These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945

By May Smith

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Levine, Joshua

Put Me Back On My Bike

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography

By Shawcross, WILLIAM

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

By Urquhart, Alistair

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II

By MacIntyre, Ben

Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr

By Lyndsey Jenkins

Churchill and Empire

By Lawrence James

Rifleman - A Front Line Life

By Gregg, Victor

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface (Canons)

By Olivia Laing, Laing, Olivia