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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

By Mah, Adeline Yen

Testament Of A Peace Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain

By Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan

The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

By Sachs, Albie

White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s

By Joe Boyd

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War, 1941-45 (Espionage)

By Marks

Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis

By Kershaw, Ian

Michael Ramsey: A Life

By Chadwick, Owen

In Search of a Past: Manor House, Amnersfield, 1933-45

By Fraser, Ronald

A Tuscan Childhood

By Beevor, Kinta

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Karski, Jan

The Past is Myself (Slightly Foxed Editions) no.23

By Bielenberg, Christabel

HOME: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House

By Myerson

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary

By Hansen, Jonathan M.

The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

By Kaiser, David

I Want to Go Home: Childhood Memories of Family Life in East London Before and During the Second World War

By Jacobs, Catherine

Churchill: An Extraordinary Life

By Gristwood, Sarah, Gaskin, Margaret

Letters from Westerbork

By Hillesum, Etty, Pomerans, A.J.

When the Moon Rises: An Escape Through Wartime Italy

By Davies Tony

The Saboteur of Auschwitz: The Inspiring True Story of a British Soldier Held Prisoner in Auschwitz

By Rushton, Colin

Warlord: Churchill at War: 1874-1945

By D'Este, Carlo

Spitfire Deserter?: The American Pilot Who Went Missing

By Simpson, Bill

The Idea Of India

By Khilnani, Sunil

Our Liverpool: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain

By J P Dudgeon

The Passionate Imperialists: the true story of Sir Frederick Lugard, anti-slaver, adventurer and founder of Nigeria, and Flora Shaw, renowned journalist for 'The Times'

By O'Grady, Rory

Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad - 35 Years in the World's War Zones

By Arnett, Peter

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End

By Field, Norma

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943

By Gabriel Gorodetsky

League of Nations

By Henig, Ruth