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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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The Cretan Runner

By George Psychoundakis

Burchett: Reporting the Other Side of the World

By Ben Kiernan

The Horsieman: Memories of a Traveller 1928-58

By Duncan Williamson

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: An RAF Pilot's Memoir of the Second World War

By Alastair Dyson Panton

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

In Pursuit of Spring

By Edward Thomas, Alexandra Harris

Golden Sheaves, Black Horses

By Fred Archer

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939–45 (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Campbell, Clare, Christy

My Family Is All I Have: A British woman's story of escaping the Nazis and surviving the Communists

By Helen Alice Dear

An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea: Memoirs of a 1950s NHS Health Visitor

By Molly Corbally

Asquith

By Roy Jenkins

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

By Justin Webb

The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought

By Alan Bullock, Baron Bullock, R.B. Wooding, R.B. Woodings, John Cumming

Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II

By Robert Hardman

Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine

By Raja Shehadeh

The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931

By Adam Tooze

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher

Jihad!: The Secret War in Afghanistan

By Carew, Tom

Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General

By Elizabeth Greenhalgh (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

The Letters

By T. E. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

By Lee Kuan Yew

The Soong Dynasty

By Sterling Seagrave

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

By Justin Webb

Public Secrets: Collected Skirmishes of Ken Knabb, 1970-1997

By Ken Knabb

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir

By Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan