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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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The Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten: Tours with the Prince of Wales

By Earl Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma, Philip Ziegler, Lord Louis Mountbatten

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

Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter

By Stephen Anderton

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

Mountbatten: Apprentice War Lord

By Adrian Smith (University of Southampton, UK)

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

By Hugo Vickers

Duchess of Windsor and Other Friends: An Illustrated Biography

By Diana Mosley

Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography

By Adam Sisman

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

By Hastings, Max

Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan

By D R Thorpe

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

By Dimbleby, Jonathan

University Politics: F. M. Cornford's Cambridge and his Advice to the Young Academic Politician

By Gordon Johnson (University of Cambridge)

In Search of Churchill

By Martin Gilbert

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man

By Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh

Something in India

By Fraser Noble

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

By Wes Davis

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

By Geoffrey Ward

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

By David Souden

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

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

By Ronald Skirth, Duncan Barrett

Literary Lives

By John Sutherland

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

By Tim Jarvis

Wars and Shadows: Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser

By Sir David Fraser

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

By John Van der Kiste

Edward VII's Children

By John Van der Kiste

Eminent Edwardians

By Piers Brendon