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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

By Triona Holden

Stalin's Silver

By John Beasant

Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

By Sara Wheeler

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

By Coretta Scott King, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

GIVING UP THE GHOST: A memoir

By Mantel, Hilary

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

By Jonathan Bate

SILVERTOWN: An East End family memoir

By Mcgrath

Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

By Betty Webb, Kerry Howard

JFK, le dernier jour

By Forestier, Francois

Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

By Richard Freiherr Von Rosen

Sukarno: A Political Biography

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

By Sian Evans

The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy

By Ben Pimlott

Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

By S. Simkin

Staging International Feminisms

By E. Aston, S. Case

The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II

By Gregory A. Freeman

Admiral Nimitz: The Commander of the Pacific Ocean Theater

By Brayton Harris

Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943: The French Resistance and the Republic

By A. Clinton

Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950

By P. Morton

Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait

By Uri Dan

Close the Wicket Gate

By Johanna O'Mahony Walters, Con Houlihan

Autobiographies

By W. B. Yeats

Adlai Stevenson's Lasting Legacy

By A. Liebling

Eisenhower

By John Wukovits, Wesley K. Clark

Ernst Roehm

By E. Hancock

New Performance/New Writing

By John Freeman