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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Vietnam: A Portrait of Its People at War

By Chanoff, David, Toai, Doan Van

Diana: The Making of a Saint

By Harrison, Ted

Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952

By Hadaway, Stuart

Milena

By Buber-Neumann, Margarete, Manheim, R.

J.Ramsay Macdonald (Lives of the Left)

By Morgan, Austen

Double Agent Snow

By James Hayward

Harold Macmillan

By Williams, Lord Charles

Nye Bevan: A Biography

By Campbell, John

Among You Taking Notes: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison, 1939-1945 (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Mitchison, Naomi, Sheridan, Dorothy

Bomber Command The Victoria Cross Raids (Second World War Aviation History)

By Chorlton, Mr Martyn

Kampong Spirit Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965

By Josephine Chia

Portrait of a Progressive: Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison

By Morgan, Kenneth O., Jane

Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy

By Nigel West, Madoc Roberts

Codename Tricycle - The True Story of the Second World War's Most Extraordinary Double Agent (Dusko Popov)

By Miller, Russell

The Spy Beside the Sea: The Extraordinary Wartime Story Of Dorothy O'grady

By Searle, Adrian

Roger Casement

By Inglis, Brian

Notes From the Warsaw Ghetto: The Unflinching, Classic First-Hand Account

By Emmanual Ringelblum

A Man of Good Hope: One Man's Extraordinary Journey from Mogadishu to Tin Can Town

By Steinberg, Jonny

The Gospel According To The Son

By Mailer, Norman

Ulendo: Claude's African Journey into War and Passion

By Malcolm Alexander, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America

By Morgan, Ted

GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency

By Aldrich, Richard

The Price of Freedom: Courage in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall

By Heinz, Volker G., Schiemann KBE, Sir Konrad

Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937

By Waddell, Dan

Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

By French, Patrick

Born 1900: A Human History of the Twentieth Century - For Everyone Who Was There

By Davies, Hunter

Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution

By McLynn, F.J.

Journals 1952 - 2000

By Schlesinger, Arthur

My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937 (Dover Chess)

By Alekhine, Alexander

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War

By Mann, James