16 Best biography memoir books like The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided by Alexander Larman

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The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

By: Alexander Larman

3.95

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to w…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided by Alexander Larman , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria

By: Theo Aronson

3.69

Format: 320 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By: Jon Meacham

3.62

Format: None pages,

The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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3. The Art of Stone Skipping and Other Fun Old-Time Games: Stoopball, Jacks, String Games, Coin Flipping, Line Baseball, Jump Rope, and More

By: J.J. Ferrer , Jayne Jaudon Ferrer

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

It's an old-time playtime--nothing electronic, just games that have stood the test of time! They he… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. The Queen Mother: The Official Biography

By: William Shawcross

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George V… read more

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5. The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince

By: Jane Ridley

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

King Edward the VII, affectionately called Bertie, was fifty-nine when he took the throne in 1901, … read more

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6. Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

By: Anne Edwards

3.73

Format: 216 pages,

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7. Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

By: Lena Andrews

4.00

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley

8. George V: Never a Dull Moment

By: Jane Ridley

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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10. The Old Lion

By: Jeff Shaara

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion a brilliant novel tracing the life… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • audiobook
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11. The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President

By: Edward F. O'Keefe

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was… read more

Similar categories in Edward F. O'Keefe's The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray

12. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

By: Charlotte Gray

4.19

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th cen… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Gray's Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
Cover of The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell

13. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

By: Gareth Russell

4.21

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I

By: Alison Weir

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poig… read more

Similar categories in Alison Weir's The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg

15. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

By: Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Weisberg's Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

By: Robert Hardman

4.33

Format: 690 pages, Hardcover

The definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by a renowned royal biographer. As seen on Good Morn… read more

Similar categories in Robert Hardman's Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor by Valentine Low

17. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor

By: Valentine Low

3.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years study… read more

Similar categories in Valentine Low's Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

By: Tom Clavin

3.67

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story. by Robert Hardman

19. Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

By: Robert Hardman

3.92

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller‘Fascinating . . . The book everyone is talking about’ – Daily Mai… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He's a very charming person - very warm and very friendly...I admire the way he interacts with people. That, to me, speaks to the measure of our King."

-Robert Hardman, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

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20. Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

By: Andrew Lownie

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the ab… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Lownie's Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute."

-Andrew Lownie, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

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21. The Real Queen Charlotte

By: Catherine Curzon

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton’s court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Streli… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon

22. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

By: Elizabeth Varon

4.15

Format: 516 pages, ebook

An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Cover of His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine by S.C. Gwynne

23. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Trouble with You by Ellen Feldman

24. The Trouble with You

By: Ellen Feldman

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose be… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Feldman's The Trouble with You book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson by Rebecca Boggs Roberts

25. Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

By: Rebecca Boggs Roberts

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith

26. George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy

By: Sally Bedell Smith

4.28

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Meghan and Harry: The Real Story by Lady Colin Campbell

27. Meghan and Harry: The Real Story

By: Lady Colin Campbell

3.69

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

The fall from popular grace of Prince Harry, the previously adulated brother of the heir to the Bri… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided by Alexander Larman

28. The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

By: Alexander Larman

3.95

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to w… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided book and Alexander Larman's The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923–1941 by Susan Ronald

29. Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923–1941

By: Susan Ronald

3.97

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Susan Ronald, acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the ar… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Philip : the final portrait : Elizabeth, their marriage and their dynasty by Gyles Brandreth

30. Philip : the final portrait : Elizabeth, their marriage and their dynasty

By: Gyles Brandreth

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back by Shannon McKenna Schmidt

31. The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back

By: Shannon McKenna Schmidt

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first book to tell the full story of Eleanor Roosevelt's unprecedented and courageous trip to t… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

22 must-read audiobook books like The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided by Alexander Larman

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

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4.00

Transform Your Habits

George V: Never a Dull Moment

Jane Ridley

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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The Old Lion

Jeff Shaara

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Brad Meltzer

4.16

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4.24

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