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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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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

Mother Ireland

By Edna O'Brien

THE FALLING ANGELS

By Walsh

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdottir

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

Something in India

By Fraser Noble

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

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