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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Medical Pioneers (20th Century Lives)

By Champion, Neil

Growing Up in the Gorbals

By Glasser, Ralph

1914 (VCs of the First World War)

By Gliddon, Gerald

Marshal Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin

By Tony Le Tissier

Vintage Champagne on the Edge of Space: The Supersonic World of a Concorde Stewardess

By Armstrong, Sally

Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbrück

By Peter Hore

The Queen and Mrs Thatcher: An Inconvenient Relationship

By Palmer

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Born 1900

By Davies, Hunter

A Passage To Africa

By Alagiah, George

Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war

By Shillington, Evelyn, Fox, Barbara

Diana:The Untold Story (Diana Princess of Wales)

By Kay, Richard, Levy, Geoffrey

From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45

By Joanna Moody

The Woman Who Censored Churchill

By Ruth Ive

A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping

By Paul Feeney

Women of Intelligence: Winning the Second World War with Air Photos

By Halsall, Christine

Hitler's Valkyrie: The Uncensored Biography of Unity Mitford

By David R L. Litchfield

Escape from Broadmoor: The Trials and Strangulations of John Thomas Straffen

By Lowe, Gordon

The Life and Times of Saddam Hussain

Allen Ginsberg: A Biography

By Miles, Barry

Che Guevara

By Sandison, David

Spitfire Pilot (Transport)

By Crook, David, Vigors, Tim

Major: A Political Life

By Seldon, Anthony

Balfour: A Life of Arthur James Balfour (Phoenix Giants S.)

By Egremont, Max

Stalin: Breaker Of Nations (Phoenix Giants S.)

By Conquest, Robert

Like The Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell

By Heffer, Simon

Rasputin: The Last Word

By Edvard Radzinsky, Judson Rosengrant

This Life of Grace

By Symons, John

Roads to Berlin

By Nooteboom, Cees, Watkinson, Laura, Watkinson, Laura

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Fuller, Alexandra