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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45

By Ranfurly Countess of Ranfurly, Hermione

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

By Godwin, Peter

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By Orlando Figes

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

By Hadley Freeman

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

Churchill's Angels: How Britain's Women Secret Agents Changed the Course of the Second World War

By Bernard O'Connor

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

Infiltration: The True Story Of The Man Who Cracked The Mafia

By Colin McLaren

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

TheGulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr ( Author ) ON Jan-30-2003, Paperback

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

By Andrew Smith

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdottir

Miracles of Life

By J. G. Ballard

The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne

By David Fisher

The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture

By Charles King

Queen Elizabeth II

By David Arscott

Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat

By Sir Christopher Mallaby, Peter Hennessy

The Great Train Robbery: A New History

By Jim Morris

THE FALLING ANGELS

By Walsh

We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF Landings In France 1940-1944

By Hugh Verity (Author)

Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe

By Richar Aldrich

Mother Ireland

By Edna O'Brien