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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Willy Brandt: Life of a Statesman

By Helene Miard-Delacroix

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

By Chang, Jung

The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder (Vintage Editions)

By Modiano, Patrick

In Pursuit of the Truth

By Driscoll, Clive

All for Freedom - A True story of escape from the Nazis

By D.T.A. Davies, Ioan Wyn Evans

Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847–1947

By Lebrecht, Norman

Once I Was a Princess: A Mother's Worst Nightmare

By Pascarl, Jacqueline

Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission

By Coburn, Mike

Trotsky for Beginners

By Tariq Ali, Phil Evans

The Che Handbook

By Hilda Barrio, Gareth Jenkins

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo

By Wrong, Michela

The Fuhrer

By Heiden, Konrad

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 50 Years Jubilee Edition

By Hoey, Brian, Brian Hoey

Alan Turing: Remarkable Lives

By Turing, Dermot

Hitler: Military Commander

By Rupert Matthews

Tito: The Story From Inside: The Story from the Inside

By Milovan, Djilas

Churchill: a life (LIVES)

By Keegan OBE, John

The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters (WOMEN IN HISTORY)

By de Courcy, Anne

Defying Hitler: A Memoir

By Haffner, Sebastian

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon

Letters From The Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War

By Lamin, Bill

The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

By Enright, Dominique

Rosie's War: An Englishwoman's Escape From Occupied France

By Say, Rosemary

The Gate

By Bizot, Francois

The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan

By Anderson, Jon Lee

The Bone Woman

By Koff, Clea

Too Many Mothers

By Taylor, Roberta, Roberta Taylor

Too Many Mothers: An East End Childhood

By Roberta Taylor

The Aquariums of Pyongyang

By Chol-Hwan, Kang, Rigoulot, Pierre

Clever Girl: Growing Up in the 1950s

By Thompson, Brian