Historical Biographies starting 1901

Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions

By Francis Wheen

A Mother's War

By Fey Von Hassell, D.Forbes- Watt

Meeting at Potsdam

By Charles L. Mee, Jr.

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-45

By Ursula Wyndham

Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

By Leo McKinstry

Memoirs of a Reluctant Batsman

By Cappy Masters

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

By Lessing, Doris

Trampships, Tankers and Polite Conversation: Experiences of the Merchant Navy During the 1950's and 1960's.

By John Lee (University of Manchester)

Confessions of an Optimist

By Woodrow Wyatt

The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

By Michael Smith

The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 (Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-5)

By John Nichol and Tony Rennell, Nichol, John; Rennell, Tony, John, Rennell

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson

Winged Victory: A Last Look Back - The Personal Reflections of Two Royal Air Force Leaders

By J. E. Johnson, Laddie Lucas

An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical Edition

By M. K. Gandhi, Mahadev Desai, Tridip Suhrud

Signalman Jones: Based on the Recollections of Geoffrey Holder-Jones

By Tim Parker

Trusted Mole: A Soldier's Journey into Bosnia's Heart of Darkness

By Milos Stankovic, Martin Bell, M.P.

Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)

By julian barnes

Himmler: Reichsfuhrer S.S.

By Peter Padfield

A King's Story: The Memoirs of HRH the Duke of Windsor, KG

By Duke of Windsor, Philip Ziegler

David Ervine: Uncharted Waters

By Henry Sinnerton

One Soldier's War In Chechnya

By Arkady Babchenko

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

By Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland

Mountbatten

By Philip Ziegler

Churchill

By Sebastian Haffner, John Brownjohn, Ian Pindar, Peter Hennessy

William Wyler

By Axel Madsen

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky

The Importance of Being Awkward: The Autobiography of Tam Dalyell

By Tam Dalyell

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

By Fischer, Louis

The Mottled Lizard

By Elspeth Huxley