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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Falling Blossom

By Peter Pagnamenta, Momoko Williams

Isolation Shepherd

By Iain R. Thomson

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

By Dimbleby, Jonathan

David Blunkett

By Stephen Pollard

The Lost Generation: The Tragically Short Lives of 1970s British F1 Drivers Roger Williamson, Tony Brise and Tom Pryce

By David Tremayne

Klaus Barbie: Butcher of Lyons

By Tom Bower

BERTIE, MAY AND MRS FISH: Country Memories of Wartime

By Bingley, Xandra

Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love

By Fergal Keane

General Boy: The Life of Leiutenant General Sir Frederick Browning

By Richard Mead

The Twins: The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance

By Peter Jacobs

Downing Street Diary

By Bernard Donoughue

Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan

By D R Thorpe

Nixon: A Life

By Jonathan Aitken

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

By Hastings, Max

Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography

By Adam Sisman

Waiting for the All Clear: True Stories from Survivors of the Blitz

By Ben Wicks

Duchess of Windsor and Other Friends: An Illustrated Biography

By Diana Mosley

A Late Education

By Alan moorehead, Michael Hayward

Nietzsche: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)

By Jackson, Roy

Unto This Last and Other Writings (Classics)

By Ruskin, John, Wilmer, Clive, Wilmer, Clive, Wilmer, Clive

'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms

By Naoko Abe, Yasuko Arakawa, Yu-Jou Chenn, Nicole Churchill, Rachael Levitan

On Hegel

By Alison Brown

Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna

By Peter Singer

Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century

By George Watson

Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

By Hugo Vickers

Mountbatten: Apprentice War Lord

By Adrian Smith (University of Southampton, UK)

East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

The End of the House of Windsor: Birth of a British Republic

By Stephen Haseler

The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power

By James Traub

Picturing Algeria

By Pierre Bourdieu (SSRC), Craig Calhoun, Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli