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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

Killing Zone

By Harry McCallion

The Literary Churchill

By Jonathan Rose

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Edward VII's Children

By John Van der Kiste

Literary Lives

By John Sutherland

Lloyd George

By M. Pugh

Eminent Edwardians

By Piers Brendon

Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year

By Dr. Ronald Blythe, John Nash

Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca

By Mount, Ferdinand

Lady Under Fire on the Western Front

By Andrew Hallam, Nicola Hallam

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

By Katie Hickman

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

By Elaine Feinstein

The Honour and the Shame

By John Kenneally Vc

Churchill: A Life

By John Keegan

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

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

This Bright Field: A Travel Book in One Place

By William Taylor

Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man

By Anthony Sattin

The Last Great Edwardian Lady

By Ingrid Seward

The Queen at 90

By St James's House

Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, 1896-1933

By Nicholas Mosley

War Of The Windsors

By Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Stephen Prior

Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled

By Heald, Tim

Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk

By Christina Hardyment

This Birding Life: The Diary of a Lifetime's Hobby

By Stephen Moss

Cash for Honours

By Andrew Cook

Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P Taylor

By Kathleen Burk

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

By Gyles Brandreth

Churchill: An Unruly Life

By Norman Rose

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anne Sebba