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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939–45 (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Campbell, Clare, Christy

My Family Is All I Have: A British woman's story of escaping the Nazis and surviving the Communists

By Helen Alice Dear

An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea: Memoirs of a 1950s NHS Health Visitor

By Molly Corbally

Asquith

By Roy Jenkins

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

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

By Justin Webb

The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought

By Alan Bullock, Baron Bullock, R.B. Wooding, R.B. Woodings, John Cumming

Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II

By Robert Hardman

Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine

By Raja Shehadeh

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

By Adam Tooze

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

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

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

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice

Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill To Eden

By Clarissa Eden, Cate Haste

Sisters of the East End

By Helen Batten

Political Lives

By Hugo Young

The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew

By David Price

Time and Chance: An Autobiography

By Peter Townsend

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

By Branch