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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink

By McCarten, Anthony

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

By Connelly, Charlie

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

By Richard Posnett, David FWD>Owen

Eminent Edwardians

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and her People

By Andrew Marr

George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King

By David Cannadine

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

Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter

By Stephen Anderton

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

By Jerry Roberts, Paddy O'Connell

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

By Rowland White

The Day We Went to War

By Terry Charman

Cash for Honours

By Andrew Cook

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

By Stephen Moss

Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk

By Christina Hardyment