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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

By Janina Bauman

The Long Gray Line

By Rick Atkinson

The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

By Vieda Skultans

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books)

By Thompson, Hunter S.

Anais: Erotic Life of Anais Nin

By Noel Riley Fitch

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

By Claude Lanzmann, Adriana Hunter (Author), Frank Wynne (Translator)

The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

By Victor Klemperer

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging

By David Cesarani

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President

By Thurston Clarke

An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

Do the birds still sing in Hell?

By Jim Greasley Horace, Ken Scott

Walk Across America

By Peter Jenkins

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson

By Sonia Purnell

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation

By Myra MacPherson

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

By Donall MacAmhlaigh

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

By Conrad Black

Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland

By Gerry Adams

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

By Tariq Ali

Hitler's Last Days

By Gerhard Boldt, S. Bance

Secrets and Lies

By Christine Keeler

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

By David Maraniss

Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E.Lawrence

By J. M. Wilson

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976

By Hunter S. Thompson

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance

By Mensun Bound