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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson

By Sonia Purnell

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

Walk Across America

By Peter Jenkins

Do the birds still sing in Hell?

By Jim Greasley Horace, Ken Scott

An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President

By Thurston Clarke

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging

By David Cesarani

The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

By Victor Klemperer

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

By Claude Lanzmann, Adriana Hunter (Author), Frank Wynne (Translator)

Anais: Erotic Life of Anais Nin

By Noel Riley Fitch

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books)

By Thompson, Hunter S.

The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

By Vieda Skultans

The Long Gray Line

By Rick Atkinson

Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

By Janina Bauman

Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women

By Nancy Costello, Kathleen Legg, Diane Croghan, Marie Slattery, Marina Gambold

Spitfire: The Autobiography

By Jon E. Lewis

Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter

By John Campbell

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

By Simon Fenwick

Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By Daniel Rachel

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

Hitler: 1936-45 : Nemesis

By Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield)

In Thier Own Words: Untold Stories from the First World War

Judas

By Amos Oz, Nicholas De Lange

Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent

By Christopher J. Walker

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

By Anne de Courcy

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Monica Waitzfelder, Peter Bush, Serge Klarsfeld

My American Century

By Studs Terkel, Robert Coles

Writing by Candlelight

By E. P. Thompson, Gabriel

I Want to Go Home

By Catherine Jacobs