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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Churchill: A Life

By John Keegan

The Honour and the Shame

By John Kenneally Vc

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

By Elaine Feinstein

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

By Katie Hickman

Lady Under Fire on the Western Front

By Andrew Hallam, Nicola Hallam

Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca

By Mount, Ferdinand

Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year

By Dr. Ronald Blythe, John Nash

Eminent Edwardians

By Piers Brendon

Lloyd George

By M. Pugh

Literary Lives

By John Sutherland

Edward VII's Children

By John Van der Kiste

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

By John Van der Kiste

Wars and Shadows: Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser

By Sir David Fraser

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

By Tim Jarvis

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

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

By Martin Williams

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

By Christopher Catherwood

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

By Stuart Heaver

Bertie: A Life of Edward VII

By Jane Ridley

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E. Ricks

The Day We Went to War

By Terry Charman

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

By Rowland White

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

By Jerry Roberts, Paddy O'Connell

Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter

By Stephen Anderton

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

By Ronald Skirth, Duncan Barrett

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

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

By David Souden

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

By Geoffrey Ward

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

By Wes Davis

Something in India

By Fraser Noble