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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

By Michela Wrong

Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill

By David Stafford

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens

By Stefan Buczacki

Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist

By Andrew Robinson

Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901-1910 in Their Own Words

By Max Arthur

Gur Cake and Coal Blocks

By Eamonn MacThomais

My Darling Buffy: Early Life of the Queen Mother

By Grania Forbes

Thank You Mr Crombie: Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British

By Mihir Bose

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

By Robert Hutton

Her Majesty The Queen: The Official Platinum Jubilee Pageant Commemorative Album

By Katie Nicholl, Robert Jobson

A Woven Silence

By Felicity Hayes-McCoy

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

No Easy Answers

By Lou Lewis, C. Leonard

Churchill & Smuts: From Enemies to Lifelong Friends

By Richard Steyn

Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

By David Fleming

Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950

By P. Morton

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

By Sian Evans

SILVERTOWN: An East End family memoir

By Mcgrath

Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

By Sara Wheeler

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man

By Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh

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

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

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

By Hastings, Max

Something in India

By Fraser Noble