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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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

By Francelle Bradford White

The Blue Door: A little girl's incredible story of survival in the Japanese POW camps of Java

By Lise Kristensen

Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens

By Stefan Buczacki

Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist

By Andrew Robinson

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

By Max Arthur

The Last Days of Hitler: The Classic Account of Hitler's Fall From Power

By Hugh Trevor Roper

Prince Philip: Wise Words and Golden Gaffes

By Phil Dampier, Ashley Walton, Richard Jolley

Gur Cake and Coal Blocks

By Eamonn MacThomais

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and France's Greatest Treasure

By Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

Vulcan 607

By White, Rowland

Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

By Robert Wainwright (Author)

Colditz Last Stop: Four Countries, Eleven Prisons, Six Escapes

By Jack Pringle

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

By Ted Sorensen

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

By Gyles Brandreth

My Darling Buffy: Early Life of the Queen Mother

By Grania Forbes

White City

By Donald James Wheal

John Grote, Cambridge University and the Development of Victorian Thought

By John R. Gibbins

William & Kate Royal Family

By Marie Clayton

Bolivian Diary of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

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

Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov

By Geoffrey Roberts

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

By Mihir Bose

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

By Robert Hutton

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

By Lyndsey Stonebridge

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

By Betty Webb, Kerry Howard

The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy

By Ben Pimlott

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

By Sian Evans

Sukarno: A Political Biography

Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

By Richard Freiherr Von Rosen

JFK, le dernier jour

By Forestier, Francois

SILVERTOWN: An East End family memoir

By Mcgrath