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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Shadows of a Forgotten Past: To the Edge with the Rhodesian SAS and Selous Scouts

By Paul French

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

By Ayesha Jalal (Columbia University, New York)

Stanley Kubrick

By Paul Duncan

Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, a Memoir

By Lindsay O'Brien

Wilfred Owen

By Dominic Hibbard

Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk

By Christina Hardyment

Fishing In Utopia: Sweden And The Future That Disappeared

By Andrew Brown

John Paul II

Love Letters

By Eberhard Arnold, Emmy von Hollander, Richard Mommsen

Diana

By David Cohen

Told in Gath

By Max Wright

Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes

By Fiona MacCarthy

Gunboat Command

By Anthony Hitchens

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

By Orlando Figes

Rebels and Reformers: Christian Renewal in the Twentieth Century

By Beeson, Trevor

Cash for Honours

By Andrew Cook

The Bow Group: A History

By James Barr

Rajmata Gayatri Devi

By Dharmender Kanwar

Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P Taylor

By Kathleen Burk

Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir

By The Rt Hon Frank Field

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

By Sonia Purnell

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

By Gyles Brandreth

At Home with the Queen: The Inside Story of the Royal Household

By Brian Hoey

At Home with the Queen: The Inside Story of the Royal Household

By Brian Hoey

Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram: A Nurse's Story From the Streets

By Dot May Dunn

India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power

By Pamela Mountbatten

Churchill: An Unruly Life

By Norman Rose

The War Lords

By A. J. P. Taylor

War Of The Windsors

By Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince, Stephen Prior