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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Corsets To Camouflage: Women and War

By Adie, Kate

Elizabeth: Behind Palace Doors

By Nicholas Davies

King: The Life of Martin Luther King

By Jonathan Eig

Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany

By Paul Hockenos

The Queen and Di

By Ingrid Seward

My Father Had this Luger...: A True Story of Hitler's Greece

By Evangelos Louizos

A Day Like Today: Memoirs

By John Humphrys

Bundles of Joy: Two Thousand Miracles. One Unstoppable Manchester Midwife

By Fairley, Linda

A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal

By Seierstad, x Asne

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler: Leading Millions Into the Abyss

By Laurence Rees

Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy

By R. J. Hollingdale

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

By Ron Stallworth

Margaret Thatcher: The grocer's daughter

By John Campbell

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

By Anne Sebba

Operation Biting

By Max Hastings

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-1945

By Ursula Wyndham

Stasiland

By Anna Funder

Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language

By Joonas Sildre

A Strange Kind of Glory: Sir Matt Busby & Manchester United

By Eamon Dunphy

Black Earth: A journey through Russia after the fall

By Meier, Andrew

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

By Daniel Finkelstein

Field of Fire: Diary of a Gunner Officer

By Jack Swaab

The Queen: Celebrating Through the Decades (Pitkin Royal Collection)

By Knappett, Gill

My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900- 1944

By Doerry, Martin, Brownjohn, John

102 Minutes

By Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn, Dwyer, Jim, Flynn, Kevin

John F. Kennedy

By Robert Dallek

Etty: A Diary 1941-43

By Etty Hillesum

Churchill's Bestiary: His Life Through Animals

By Piers Brendon

One Word of Truth: The Cold War Memoir of Michael Bourdeaux and Keston Colllege

By Michael Bourdeaux