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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Maggie & Me

By Barr, Damian

Thatcher Stole My Trousers

By Sayle, Alexei

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

By Alex Von Tunzelmann

Infidel

By Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

By Gates, Robert M.

Trains and Buttered Toast

By Betjeman, John

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

By Avey, Denis, Broomby, Rob

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Stephen Grady, Michael Wright

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Grady, Stephen, Wright, Michael

The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History

By Rose, Andrew

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks

By Grant, Thomas

Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks

By Grant, Thomas

Titanic 9 Hours to Hell: The Survivors' Story

By Bartlett, W. B.

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

A Spitfire Pilot's Story: Pat Hughes: Battle of Britain Top Gun

By Newton, Dennis

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE

By Thomas, Gordon, Lewis, Greg

The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines

By Mulley, Clare

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Rappaport, Helen

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By Jean Trumpington

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

By Fuller, Alexandra, Enright, Anne

The Midwife's Sister: The Story of Call The Midwife's Jennifer Worth by her sister Christine

By Lee, Christine

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Mukhina, Lena, Darragh, Amanda Love

Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill

By Michael Shelden

What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

By Michele Hanson

The Secret History of the Blitz

By Levine, Joshua

Ayesha's Gift: A daughter's search for the truth about her father

By Sixsmith, Martin