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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Herbert Samuel: A Political Life

By Bernard Wasserstein (Professor of History, Professor of History, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts)

Before Wallis: Edward VIII's Other Women

By Rachel Trethewey

Heroes of the Holocaust Ordinary Britons who risked their lives t

By Lyn Smith

Queen Elizabeth: Life of the Queen Mother

By Penelope Mortimer

The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II

By A. N. Wilson

I Am Spain

By David Boyd Haycock

Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

By Harry Leslie Smith

The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914

By Christopher Sandford

War Memorial: The Story of One Village's Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003

By Clive Aslet

My Story

By Jeff Coplon, Duchess Of York

The Sweethearts: Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls

By Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

By Anita Anand

Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

By Andrew Lownie

Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

By Harry Leslie Smith

F.R. Leavis: Essays and Documents

By Ian MacKillop, Richard Storer

Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Crystal Clear: The Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg

By A.M. Glazer (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford), Patience Thomson

Harry's War

By Harry Drinkwater, Jon Cooksey, David Griffiths

Churchill: The Power of Words

By Winston S. Churchill, Dr Martin Gilbert

The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime

By Stapleton, Susannah

Commando: Winning World War II Behind Enemy Lines

By James Owen

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

By Rowland White

The Queen Mother Remembered: The Intimate Recollections of Her Friends, 1900-2002

By James Hogg, Michael Mortimer

Personal Impressions

By Isaiah Berlin

BERTIE, MAY AND MRS FISH: Country Memories of Wartime

By Bingley, Xandra

Elizabeth: Behind Palace Doors

By Nicholas Davies

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm

By Katherine Carter

Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

By Leo McKinstry