Piers Brendon

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Piers Brendon (born 21 December 1940, Stratton, Cornwall) is a British writer, known for historical and biographical works.

He was Keeper of the Archives at The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.^[1], from 1995 to 2001, taking over from Corelli Barnett. He was succeeded by Allen Packwood.

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Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement (1974)
Hawker of Morwenstow - Portrait of a Victorian Eccentric (1975)
A Quest of the Sangraal, Cornish Ballads & Other Poems, Robert Stephen Hawker (1975) editor
Eminent Edwardians (1979) Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN 0-395-29195-X
The Life and Death of The Press Barons (1983)
Winston Churchill: A Brief Life (1984)
Ike - the Life and Times of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1986)
Our Own Dear Queen (1986)
Thomas Cook - 150 Years of Popular Tourism (1991)
The Age of Reform 1820-1850 (1994)
The Motoring Century: Story of the Royal Automobile Club (1997)
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (2000) ISBN 0-375-70808-1
The Windsors - A Dynasty Revealed 1917-2000 (2000) with Phillip Whitehead
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (2007)