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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers

By Calder

SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History

By David, Saul

Alan Ayckbourn (Modern Dramatists)

By Billington, Michael

World War II: The Definitive Visual Guide

By DK

Baldwin

By Jenkins, Roy

Asquith

By Koss, Stephen E.

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

Churchill's Bomb: A hidden history of Britain's first nuclear weapons programme

By Farmelo, Graham

Ten Dead Men: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

By Beresford, David

Gordon Brown: ‘As a psychological profile, an exploration of personal ambition and a study of political obsession driven by religious angst, this biography is gripping’ Daily Telegraph

By Bower, Tom

The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Dunlop, Tessa

Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952

By Hadaway, Stuart

J.Ramsay Macdonald (Lives of the Left)

By Morgan, Austen

Bomber Command The Victoria Cross Raids (Second World War Aviation History)

By Chorlton, Mr Martyn

Portrait of a Progressive: Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison

By Morgan, Kenneth O., Jane

The Spy Beside the Sea: The Extraordinary Wartime Story Of Dorothy O'grady

By Searle, Adrian

Roger Casement

By Inglis, Brian

GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency

By Aldrich, Richard

Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

By French, Patrick

Born 1900: A Human History of the Twentieth Century - For Everyone Who Was There

By Davies, Hunter

Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson

By Anderson, Jon Lee

The Confusion of Command: The Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow 1914 -1915

By Dan Snow, Mark Pottle

The Queen at 90: Royal Album

By Sam Wilkinson

The Aran Islands (Oxford Paperbacks)

By J. M. Synge, Robin Skelton

Clementine Churchill

By Soames, Mary

Churchill's Cigar: A Lifelong Love Affair Through War and Peace

By Stephen McGinty

Mission to Tashkent

By Bailey, F. M., Hopkirk, Peter

Finding Tipperary Mary

By Phyllis Whitsell

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

Mountbatten: Apprentice War Lord

By Adrian Smith (University of Southampton, UK)