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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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As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War

By Smith, Emma

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

A Touch of Class: Story of Austin Reed

By Ritchie, Berry

The Man Who Was M.: Life of Charles Henry Maxwell Knight

By Masters

Churchill and Empire

By Lawrence James

Rifleman - A Front Line Life

By Gregg, Victor