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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

By Mark Leopold

Michael Foot - A Life

By Kenneth O. Morgan

Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration

By Noel Annan

1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

By Slavko Goldstein

A Different Kind of Courage, A

By Gretel Wachtel

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

By Paula Byrne

Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews

By Professor Christopher Murray

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Against The Law

By Peter Wildeblood

The Great Philosophers: Hegel

By Raymond Plant

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By Philipp von Boeselager

The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

By Heath Hardage Lee

Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century

By Tobias Buck

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

By Edward Smithies

Supper with the Crippens: The true story of one of the most notorious murderers of all time

By David James Smith

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

By Natasha Walter

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

By Sheridan Morley, Graham Payn

Hero

By Whiting, Charles

The Queen: The gripping true tale of a villain who changed history

By Josh Levin

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

By Luke Turner

Brasso, Blanco and Bull

By Tony Thorne

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

By Anne de Courcy

Among You Taking Notes...

By Naomi Mitchison

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes