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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Hitler: 1936-45 : Nemesis

By Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield)

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

By Simon Fenwick

Spitfire: The Autobiography

By Jon E. Lewis

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

By Mazower, Mark

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

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

By Ann Oakley

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdottir

THE FALLING ANGELS

By Walsh

Mother Ireland

By Edna O'Brien

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill

By David Stafford

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

By Michela Wrong

The Horsieman: Memories of a Traveller 1928-58

By Duncan Williamson

In Pursuit of Spring

By Edward Thomas, Alexandra Harris

Golden Sheaves, Black Horses

By Fred Archer

Asquith

By Roy Jenkins

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

Political Lives

By Hugo Young

Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions

By Francis Wheen

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By William Fotheringham

A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L.Rowse

By Richard Lawrence Ollard

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

The Letters

By T. E. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill To Eden

By Clarissa Eden, Cate Haste