books by subject
Historical Biographies starting 1901

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Origins of the Final Solution

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

Hitler

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

Commandant Of Auschwitz

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

Churchill's Angels: How Britain's Women Secret Agents Changed the Course of the Second World War

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

Infiltration: The True Story Of The Man Who Cracked The Mafia

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

Five of the Few

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

A Late Education
