books by subject
British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

Churchill: A Life

The Honour and the Shame

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

Lady Under Fire on the Western Front

Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca

Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year

Eminent Edwardians

Lloyd George

Literary Lives

Edward VII's Children

Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36

Wars and Shadows: Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser

Shackleton's Epic: Recreating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

The Coal Black Sea: Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War

Bertie: A Life of Edward VII

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

The Day We Went to War

Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter

The Reluctant Tommy: An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War

The Speckled People

Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis
