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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Isaac’s Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900

By Larson, Erik

Stalin: A Biography

By Robert Service

Time and Chance

By Callaghan, James

The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945

By Hennessy, Peter

Prague Farewell: The Awakened One (TRADE)

By Kovály, Heda Margolius

Town And Country

By Barnett/Scruton

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

By David Kaiser

The Illustrated Red Baron: Life and Times of Manfred Von Richthofen

By Kilduff, Peter

The Queen and Di

By Seward, Ingrid

The Life and Times of Che Guevera

By David Sandison

Mrs Guinness: The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite

By Lyndsy Spence

In the City: A Celebration of London Music

By Du Noyer, Paul

Madonna: Like an Icon

By O'Brien, Lucy

Franci's War: The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust

By Epstein, Franci Rabinek

The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

By Anand, Anita

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

By Chang, Jung

Charles Colson: A Life Redeemed

By Jonathan Aitken

Diaries: Into Politics

By Clark, Alan

Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya

By Huxley

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

By Parr, Helen

Confessions of an Optimist

By Wyatt, Woodrow

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite

By Finkbeiner, Ms Ann K

George VI: A Biography

By Howarth, Patrick

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Chang Jung & Halliday Jon, Chang, Jung, Halliday, Jon

Little Girl Lost (Richard & Judy's True)

By Probert-Wright, Barbie, Ritchie, Jean

Joseph Ruhomon's India: The Progress of Her People at Home and Abroad, and How Those in British Guiana May Improve Themselves

By The University of the West Indies Press

Personal Impressions (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Annan, Noel Gilroy

Come Spring: An Autobiographical Novel

By Lay, Graeme

Moscow Memoirs

By Gerstein, Emma

What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-33

By Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann