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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

By Sarah Shaw

Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

By Benjamin Ferencz

Bandaging the Blitz

By Mrs Phyll Macdonald Ross, I. D. Roberts

Operation Mincemeat

By Ben Macintyre

The Rebecca Code: Rommel's Spy in North Africa and Operation Kondor

By Mark Simmons

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Helen Rappaport

Guilty but Insane:: J. C. Bowen-Colthurst - Villain or Victim?

By James W. Taylor

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By Radden Keefe, Patrick

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

By Shirer, William L

Making the Best of Things: Life During the War Years

The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History

By Tessa Dunlop

Los Intelectuales del Partido Comunista: Itinerario de Hector Agosti (1930-1963)

By Laura Prado Acosta

Understanding Joseph Roth

By Sidney Rosenfeld, James Hardin

Young Stalin

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Infidel: My Life

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

By Norman Mailer

Abba Eban: A Biography

By Asaf Siniver

I Was Hitler's Neighbour

By Edgar Feuchtwanger

A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz

By Goeran Rosenberg, Sarah Death, John Cullen

Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War

By Dr. Ronald Blythe

The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family

By Helen Rappaport

The Windsors: A Dynasty Revealed

By Whitehead, C, Brendon, Dr Piers

Special Tasks: Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness a Soviet Spymaster

By Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schector

A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto

By Abraham Lewin, Antony Polonsky, C. Austin

My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank

By Jacqueline van Maarsen, Hester Velmans

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Serge Klarsfeld

Rfk: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy

By C.David Heymann

Edith Wharton and the French Riviera

By Elizabeth Collas

Khiva to Samarkand: The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to the Heart of Turkestan

By Ella R. Christie

Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5

By Major Robert Lyman