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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Gur Cake and Coal Blocks

By Eamonn MacThomais

Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901-1910 in Their Own Words

By Max Arthur

Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist

By Andrew Robinson

Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens

By Stefan Buczacki

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill

By David Stafford

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

By Michela Wrong

The Horsieman: Memories of a Traveller 1928-58

By Duncan Williamson

In Pursuit of Spring

By Edward Thomas, Alexandra Harris

Golden Sheaves, Black Horses

By Fred Archer

Asquith

By Roy Jenkins

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

The Letters

By T. E. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown

Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill To Eden

By Clarissa Eden, Cate Haste

Political Lives

By Hugo Young

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L.Rowse

By Richard Lawrence Ollard

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By William Fotheringham

Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions

By Francis Wheen

Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

By Leo McKinstry

The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

By Michael Smith

Trusted Mole: A Soldier's Journey into Bosnia's Heart of Darkness

By Milos Stankovic, Martin Bell, M.P.

A King's Story: The Memoirs of HRH the Duke of Windsor, KG

By Duke of Windsor, Philip Ziegler

Mountbatten

By Philip Ziegler

Churchill

By Sebastian Haffner, John Brownjohn, Ian Pindar, Peter Hennessy

Churchill

By Paul Johnson

Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

By Violet Bonham Carter, Mark Pottle, Mary Soames