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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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

By Ada Petrova, Peter Watson

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

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

By MacIntyre, Ben

Saddam: The Secret Life

By Con Coughlin

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Nixon, Kissinger, and US Foreign Policy Making: The Machinery of Crisis

By Asaf Siniver (University of Birmingham)

A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination

By Michael L. Morgan (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington)

Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston Churchill

By David Stafford

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher

Jihad!: The Secret War in Afghanistan

By Carew, Tom

Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General

By Elizabeth Greenhalgh (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

The Letters

By T. E. Lawrence, Malcolm Brown

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

By Lee Kuan Yew

The Soong Dynasty

By Sterling Seagrave

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

By Justin Webb

Public Secrets: Collected Skirmishes of Ken Knabb, 1970-1997

By Ken Knabb

Sisters of the East End

By Helen Batten

Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie

By Joan Kent

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Branch

Time and Chance: An Autobiography

By Peter Townsend

The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew

By David Price

Political Lives

By Hugo Young

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice

Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir

By Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan

THE WIT & WISDOM OF OSCAR WILDE DIARY 1998

By Oscar Wilde; Merlin Holland (ed.), Ian Archie Beck

The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931

By Adam Tooze