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Historical Biographies starting 1901

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Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie

By Joan Kent

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

The Railway Man (Vintage War) Exp

By Eric Lomax

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

By Jan Karski, Andrew Roberts

What It Is Like To Go To War

By Karl Marlantes

War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By Patrick Marnham

Young Hitler: The Making of the Fuhrer

By Paul Ham (author)

In The Shadow Of A Saint

By Ken Wiwa

FRIENDS, VOTERS, COUNTRYMEN

By Johnson

The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story

By Jim Bailey

The Admiral's Baby

By Laurens Van Der Post

A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L.Rowse

By Richard Lawrence Ollard

One of the Family: 40 Years with the Krays

By Maureen Flanagan

Battle Too Far: The True Story of Rifleman Henry Taylor

By Carole McEntee-Taylor

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War

By Adrian D. Gilbert

The Real Band of Brothers: First-hand Accounts from the Last British Survivors of the Spanish Civil War

By Max Arthur

Granny Made me an Anarchist

By Stuart Christie

Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-45

By Philip Kaplan, Jack Currie

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

By David Rooney

Desert Warrior

By Patrick Seale

Sailor Malan: Battle of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan

By Philip Kaplan

Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi

By William Fotheringham

Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions

By Francis Wheen

A Mother's War

By Fey Von Hassell, D.Forbes- Watt

Meeting at Potsdam

By Charles L. Mee, Jr.

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-45

By Ursula Wyndham

Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

By Leo McKinstry

Memoirs of a Reluctant Batsman

By Cappy Masters

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

By Lessing, Doris