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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Killing Zone

By Harry McCallion

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

Fighter Aces! the Constable Maxwell Brothers: Fighter Pilots in Two World Wars

By Alex Revell

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

By Paul Addison (University of Edinburgh), Harriet Jones (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers

By Shaw, Jane

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

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

Ten Dead Men: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

By Beresford, David

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

By Farmelo, Graham

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

Asquith

By Koss, Stephen E.

Baldwin

By Jenkins, Roy

World War II: The Definitive Visual Guide

By DK

Alan Ayckbourn (Modern Dramatists)

By Billington, Michael

SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History

By David, Saul

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

By Calder

Queen Elizabeth II

By Ammonite Press

T.E. Lawrence (British Library Historic Lives) (British Library Historic Lives S.)

By Malcolm Brown

Winston and Clementine: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Churchills

By Hough, Richard Alexander

The King's Speech

By Logue and Conradi, Conradi, Peter, Mark Logue, Peter Conradi

When the War Is Over: Far from home, far from family, safe from the war - a true story of two Second World War evacuees

By Barbara Fox

The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman

By Betsy Whyte

By Tank into Normandy (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

By Hills, Stuart

The Pankhursts

By Pugh, Martin

Churchill

By Ashley Jackson

Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street

By Brock, Michael, Eleanor

A T.S.Eliot Companion: Life and Works (Literary Companions)

By Pinion, F B

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

By Hadaway, Stuart

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

By Larkin, Philip, Thwaite, Anthony