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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Living Out Loud

By Anna Quindlen

Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

By David Fleming

Jonnie Shiny Shoes

By Jonathan L Smith

First to Fly

By James Tobin

The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2

By Peter Jenkins, Barbara Jenkins (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.)

Churchill & Smuts: From Enemies to Lifelong Friends

By Richard Steyn

No Easy Answers

By Lou Lewis, C. Leonard

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

A Diplomat's Day

By Geoffrey F. Hancock

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

By Edwin Frank

The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family

By Helen Rappaport

The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands: Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War

By Selim Deringil

Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story

By Gabriele Vom Bruck

Stirling's Men: The Inside History of the SAS inWorld War II

By Mortimer, Gavin

The Cage: An Englishman in The Vietnam War

By Abraham, Tom

Witness

By Whittaker Chambers

Radical Son: A Generational Oddysey

By David Horowitz

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

By James W. Douglass

Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship

By Richard Aldous

Memoirs of a Reluctant Batsman

By Cappy Masters

The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 (Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-5)

By John Nichol and Tony Rennell, Nichol, John; Rennell, Tony, John, Rennell

The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

By Michael Smith

Confessions of an Optimist

By Woodrow Wyatt

Trampships, Tankers and Polite Conversation: Experiences of the Merchant Navy During the 1950's and 1960's.

By John Lee (University of Manchester)

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

By Lessing, Doris

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

Meeting at Potsdam

By Charles L. Mee, Jr.

Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions

By Francis Wheen

A Mother's War

By Fey Von Hassell, D.Forbes- Watt

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson