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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing

By Jane Dunn

Monopoli Blues

By Tim Clark, Nick Cook

Great Boys: An African Childhood

By Tanure Ojaide

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

"Are You Strong, Lass?": "You'll Need to be Working Here...: Memoirs from a 1970s Yorkshire Classroom

By Kath Padgett

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

By L. Trotskii

Taking Command

By General Sir David Richards

Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn

Reporting Royalty: Behind the Scenes with the BBC's Royal Correspondent

By Jennie Bond

Flying Free

By Nigel P. Farage

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