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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Samira & Samir

By Siba Shakib

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Martin Luther King Jr

6 Rainier Drive

By Debbie Macomber

The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews

By Benny Morris

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

By Ezra F. Vogel

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

By Simon Kuper

The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies

By Noreen Riols

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

By Michael Holroyd

Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

By Fawaz A. Gerges

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

By Mark Leopold

Michael Foot - A Life

By Kenneth O. Morgan

Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration

By Noel Annan

1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

By Slavko Goldstein

A Different Kind of Courage, A

By Gretel Wachtel

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

By Paula Byrne

Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews

By Professor Christopher Murray

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Against The Law

By Peter Wildeblood

The Great Philosophers: Hegel

By Raymond Plant

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By Philipp von Boeselager

The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

By Heath Hardage Lee

Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century

By Tobias Buck

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

By Edward Smithies

Supper with the Crippens: The true story of one of the most notorious murderers of all time

By David James Smith

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

By Natasha Walter

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

By Sheridan Morley, Graham Payn