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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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The Mottled Lizard

By Elspeth Huxley

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

By Fischer, Louis

The Importance of Being Awkward: The Autobiography of Tam Dalyell

By Tam Dalyell

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky

William Wyler

By Axel Madsen

Churchill

By Sebastian Haffner, John Brownjohn, Ian Pindar, Peter Hennessy

Mountbatten

By Philip Ziegler

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland

One Soldier's War In Chechnya

By Arkady Babchenko

David Ervine: Uncharted Waters

By Henry Sinnerton

A King's Story: The Memoirs of HRH the Duke of Windsor, KG

By Duke of Windsor, Philip Ziegler

Himmler: Reichsfuhrer S.S.

By Peter Padfield

Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)

By julian barnes

Trusted Mole: A Soldier's Journey into Bosnia's Heart of Darkness

By Milos Stankovic, Martin Bell, M.P.

Signalman Jones: Based on the Recollections of Geoffrey Holder-Jones

By Tim Parker

An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical Edition

By M. K. Gandhi, Mahadev Desai, Tridip Suhrud

Winged Victory: A Last Look Back - The Personal Reflections of Two Royal Air Force Leaders

By J. E. Johnson, Laddie Lucas

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War

By Adrian D. Gilbert

Sailor Malan: Battle of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan

By Philip Kaplan

Desert Warrior

By Patrick Seale

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

By David Rooney

Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-45

By Philip Kaplan, Jack Currie

Granny Made me an Anarchist

By Stuart Christie

The Real Band of Brothers: First-hand Accounts from the Last British Survivors of the Spanish Civil War

By Max Arthur

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

By Richard Lawrence Ollard

FRIENDS, VOTERS, COUNTRYMEN

By Johnson

The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story

By Jim Bailey

The Admiral's Baby

By Laurens Van Der Post

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By William Fotheringham

One of the Family: 40 Years with the Krays

By Maureen Flanagan