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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov

By Geoffrey Roberts

Thank You Mr Crombie: Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British

By Mihir Bose

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

By Robert Hutton

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

By Lyndsey Stonebridge

John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order

By Patrick Hayden

Her Majesty The Queen: The Official Platinum Jubilee Pageant Commemorative Album

By Katie Nicholl, Robert Jobson

The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

By HILARY SPURLING

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By Josh Widdicombe

A Woven Silence

By Felicity Hayes-McCoy

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain

By Julian Jackson

Brasso, Blanco and Bull

By Tony Thorne

Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978

By Andy Neill, Matt Kent

Wings on My Sleeve: The World's Greatest Test Pilot tells his story

By Brown, Captain Eric

Hopping

By Melanie McGrath

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Souvenir 1952-2012

By Bullen, Annie

Fire Road

By Kim Phuc Phan Thi

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

By Stephen Kinzer

The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East

By Mahamood Riad

Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

By David Fleming

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

No Easy Answers

By Lou Lewis, C. Leonard

Churchill & Smuts: From Enemies to Lifelong Friends

By Richard Steyn

The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2

By Peter Jenkins, Barbara Jenkins (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.)

First to Fly

By James Tobin

Jonnie Shiny Shoes

By Jonathan L Smith

Lend me your Ears

By Johnson, Boris

Inside the Bank of England: Memoirs of Christopher Dow, Chief Economist 1973-84

By C. Dow, G. Hacche

Don't Bother to Unpack: Sudan 1959-1964

By Lowe, Dorothy Isabel

A Diplomat's Day

By Geoffrey F. Hancock

A Year With C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from His Classic Works

By Lewis, C. S.