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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By Patrick Marnham

Gur Cake and Coal Blocks

By Eamonn MacThomais

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Saddam: The Secret Life

By Con Coughlin

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

By MacIntyre, Ben

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives

By Ada Petrova, Peter Watson

Heinrich Himmler

By Peter Longerich (Professor of Modern German History, Royal Holloway University of London)

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

By Laurence Rees

Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

By Rochus Misch

Einstein at Home

By Friedrich Herneck, Josef Eisinger, Alice Calaprice

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

By Gregg Herken

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

By Roger Osborne

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

A Late Education

By Alan moorehead

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

By Greg Grandin

Dresden: A Survivor's Story, February 1945

By Victor Gregg, Rick Stroud

Adolf Hitler

Andree's War: How One Young Woman Outwitted the Nazis

By Francelle Bradford White

The Blue Door: A little girl's incredible story of survival in the Japanese POW camps of Java

By Lise Kristensen

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

The Last Days of Hitler: The Classic Account of Hitler's Fall From Power

By Hugh Trevor Roper

Prince Philip: Wise Words and Golden Gaffes

By Phil Dampier, Ashley Walton, Richard Jolley

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

By Katie Nicholl, Robert Jobson

John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order

By Patrick Hayden

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

By Lyndsey Stonebridge

The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

By HILARY SPURLING