Biography
- Alan Bullock (1914–2004) - Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
- Vincent Cronin - Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon
- Ragnhild Hatton, biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain.
- Ian Kershaw (1943- Historian well known for his influential study of Hitler
- Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
- Ron Rosenbaum - author of Explaining Hitler.
- Jean Edward Smith - author of biographies on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, and Lucius D. Clay
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