Historical Biographies starting 1901

Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power

By Alastair Campbell

Power and Pragmatism

By Malcolm Rifkind

The House of Mitford

By Jonathan Guinness, Catherine Guinness

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Dmitri Volkogonov

Last Guardians: Crown Service in Sudan, Northern Rhodesia and Britain

By Philip Bowcock

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By Jon Meacham

In Search of Churchill

By Martin Gilbert

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By Gilbert King

Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson

By Jon Lee Anderson

The South Country

By Edward Thomas, Eric Fitch Daglish, Robert Macfarlane, David Inshaw

Kwame Nkrumah: A Political Kingdom in the Third World

By David Rooney

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

By Judt, Tony

After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew

By Wilson, A.N.

When The Hills Ask For Your Blood: A Personal Stor

By David Belton

Censored 1998: The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories

By Peter Phillips, Project Censored, Danny Schechter, Tom Tomorrow

Lady Sings the Blues

By Billie Holiday

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

Lenin V3

By Robert Service

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song

By Paul Howard

Hunter to Hunted - Surviving Hitler's Wolf Packs: Diaries of a Merchant Navy Radio Officer, 1939-45

By Alex Anderson

The Agatha Christie Miscellany

By Cathy Cook

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

By Anne Edwards

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

By Anne Edwards

Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters

By Jane Dunn

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale

Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman

By Itamar Rabinovich

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

By Lynne Olson

Rab: The Life Of R.A. Butler

By Anthony Howard

The World's Greatest Scandals of the Twentieth Century

By Nigel Blundell