British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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

By Rowland White

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

By Jerry Roberts, Paddy O'Connell

Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter

By Stephen Anderton

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

By Ronald Skirth, Duncan Barrett

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

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

By David Souden

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

By Geoffrey Ward

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

By Wes Davis

Something in India

By Fraser Noble

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man

By Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh

In Search of Churchill

By Martin Gilbert

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

By Gordon Johnson (University of Cambridge)

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

By Dimbleby, Jonathan

Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan

By D R Thorpe

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

By Hastings, Max

Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography

By Adam Sisman

Duchess of Windsor and Other Friends: An Illustrated Biography

By Diana Mosley

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

By Hugo Vickers

Mountbatten: Apprentice War Lord

By Adrian Smith (University of Southampton, UK)

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King

By David Cannadine

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and her People

By Andrew Marr

Eminent Edwardians

The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Journal of Colonial and Foreign Service

By Richard Posnett, David FWD>Owen

Constance Street: The true story of one family and one street in London's East End

By Connelly, Charlie

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink

By McCarten, Anthony

Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

By Leigh Fermor, Patrick

Lost Voices of the Royal Air Force

By Max Arthur

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

By Mazower, Mark

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max