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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Saddam: The Secret Life

By Con Coughlin

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

By MacIntyre, Ben

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives

By Ada Petrova, Peter Watson

Heinrich Himmler

By Peter Longerich (Professor of Modern German History, Royal Holloway University of London)

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

By Laurence Rees

Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

By Rochus Misch

Einstein at Home

By Friedrich Herneck, Josef Eisinger, Alice Calaprice

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

By Gregg Herken

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

By Roger Osborne

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

By Sarah Watling

A Late Education

By Alan moorehead

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

By Greg Grandin

Dresden: A Survivor's Story, February 1945

By Victor Gregg, Rick Stroud

Adolf Hitler

Andree's War: How One Young Woman Outwitted the Nazis

By Francelle Bradford White

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

By Ted Sorensen

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

By Lyndsey Stonebridge

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

By Robert Hutton

Thank You Mr Crombie: Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British

By Mihir Bose

Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov

By Geoffrey Roberts

Bolivian Diary of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

By Che Guevara, C.P. Hansen, A. Sinclair

William & Kate Royal Family

By Marie Clayton

John Grote, Cambridge University and the Development of Victorian Thought

By John R. Gibbins

White City

By Donald James Wheal

My Darling Buffy: Early Life of the Queen Mother

By Grania Forbes

Elizabeth: An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years

By Gyles Brandreth

Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901-1910 in Their Own Words

By Max Arthur

Prince Philip: Wise Words and Golden Gaffes

By Phil Dampier, Ashley Walton, Richard Jolley