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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Soldier of the Cuban Revolution: From the Cane Fields to General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces

By Luis Alfonso Zayas

Watching War Films With My Dad

By Al Murray

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography

By Gerry Adams

Callaghan

By Kenneth O. Morgan

Callaghan

By Kenneth O. Morgan

The Battle of the Casbah

By Paul Aussaresses

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century

By Bahru Zewde

King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

By Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Peter Lewis

An African Life: Tales of a Colonial Officer

By M.C. Atkinson

Mussolini

By Jasper Ridley

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By Lessing, Doris

Mandela

By Tom Lodge (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick)

Talk of the Devil

By Riccardo Orizio

The Zookeeper's Wife: An unforgettable true story, now a major film

By Diane Ackerman

Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos

By T. Fahy

Writings: 1939-40

By L. Trotskii, George Breitman, Naomi Allen

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Wheen, Francis

A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot

By mary walton

Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and his Regime, Romania 1940-1944

By D. Deletant

The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War

By James David Robenalt, John W. Dean

George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King

By David Cannadine

Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques

By M. Tonkin

Exile through a Gendered Lens: Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema

By G. Zinn

Zhang Xueliang: The General Who Never Fought

By A. Shai

Eisenhower

By John Wukovits, Wesley K. Clark

Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War (European History in Perspective)

By McDermott, Kevin

The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton

By Joe Klein

The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction

By K. Cooper, E. Short

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

By Neil Sheehan

A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45

By Astrid Lindgren, Sarah Death