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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Sisters of the East End

By Helen Batten

Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill To Eden

By Clarissa Eden, Cate Haste

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice

THE WIT & WISDOM OF OSCAR WILDE DIARY 1998

By Oscar Wilde; Merlin Holland (ed.), Ian Archie Beck

Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir

By Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

Public Secrets: Collected Skirmishes of Ken Knabb, 1970-1997

By Ken Knabb

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

By Justin Webb

The Soong Dynasty

By Sterling Seagrave

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

By Lee Kuan Yew

The Letters

By T. E. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General

By Elizabeth Greenhalgh (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

Jihad!: The Secret War in Afghanistan

By Carew, Tom

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher

Churchill and the Dardanelles

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

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination

By Michael L. Morgan (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington)

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

Jacques Tati

By David Bellos

A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance

By Jonathan Ree

A Troubled See: Memoirs of a Derry Bishop

By Edward Daly

Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile

By Eugene Sheppard

The Cretan Runner

By George Psychoundakis

Burchett: Reporting the Other Side of the World

By Ben Kiernan

The Horsieman: Memories of a Traveller 1928-58

By Duncan Williamson

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: An RAF Pilot's Memoir of the Second World War

By Alastair Dyson Panton

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet

The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought

By Alan Bullock, Baron Bullock, R.B. Wooding, R.B. Woodings, John Cumming