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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940

By Patrick Bishop

1 available

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

By Andrew, Christopher

1 available

Long to Reign Over Us: Official 90th Birthday Album (Souvenir Album)

By Leah Kharibian

1 available

Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945

By Rankin, Nicholas

1 available

Dont Look Back (BFI Film Classics)

By Keith Beattie

1 available

The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers

By Benewick, Robert

1 available

DC Confidential

By Meyer, Sir Christopher

1 available

The Major Effect

By Kavanagh, Dennis, Seldon, Anthony

1 available

MAMMA MIA! HOW CAN I RESIST YOU? THE INSIDE STORY OF MAMMA MIA! AND THE SONGS OF ABBA

By Judy Craymer, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Philip Dodd

1 available

Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks

By Grant, Thomas

From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

By Gates, Robert M.

Trains and Buttered Toast

By Betjeman, John

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

By Avey, Denis, Broomby, Rob

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Stephen Grady, Michael Wright

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Grady, Stephen, Wright, Michael

The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History

By Rose, Andrew

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE

By Thomas, Gordon, Lewis, Greg

Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill

By Michael Shelden

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Mukhina, Lena, Darragh, Amanda Love

The Midwife's Sister: The Story of Call The Midwife's Jennifer Worth by her sister Christine

By Lee, Christine

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

By Fuller, Alexandra, Enright, Anne

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By Jean Trumpington

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Rappaport, Helen

The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines

By Mulley, Clare

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

By Alex Von Tunzelmann

Titanic 9 Hours to Hell: The Survivors' Story

By Bartlett, W. B.

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks

By Grant, Thomas