books by subject

British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

Filter by available

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

By Christopher Catherwood

The Coal Black Sea: Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War

By Stuart Heaver

Bertie: A Life of Edward VII

By Jane Ridley

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E. Ricks

The Day We Went to War

By Terry Charman

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

The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History

By Tessa Dunlop

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

By Anne de Courcy

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton

By Barbara Winton

Guilty but Insane:: J. C. Bowen-Colthurst - Villain or Victim?

By James W. Taylor

Spitfire: The Autobiography

By Jon E. Lewis