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Historic Origins of World War II

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Mussolini and his Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940

By John Gooch (University of Leeds)

Vital Crossroads: Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940

By Reynolds M. Salerno

Remembering D-Day: Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes

By Martin Bowman

Private Battles

By Simon Garfield

Trojan Horses: Extraordinary Stories of Deception Operations in the Second World War

By Martin Young, Robbie Stamp

Battlefields (of the Second World War)

By Richard Holmes

An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War

By Donald Thomas

The Holocaust

By R. Gordon Grant

Germany 1919-45: Foundation Edition

By John D. Clare

Fascism: A Very Short Introduction

By Kevin Passmore

Last Letters Home

By Tamasin Day-Lewis

The Road to War: Revised And Updated Edition

By Andrew Wheatcroft, Richard Overy

Second World War in the Far East

By H. P. Willmott

Cambridgeshire Airfields in the Second World War

By Graham Smith

The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes

By Baron Russell of Liverpool, Edward Frederick Langley Russell, Norman Stone

Treblinka

By Jean-Francois Steiner, Simone de Beauvoir, Terrence Des Pres

Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War

By Ian Kershaw

Hitler's Enforcers: Leaders of the German War Machine, 1939-45

By James Lucas

Tail Gunner

By Richard C. Rivaz

Nine Lives: Air Commodore Alan Deere

By Alan Deere, Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding

Memoirs of a Goldfish: Experiences of a World War II Bomber Pilot and POW

By Jim Burtt-Smith

Enigma

By Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

Waiting For Hitler

By Midge Gillies

Moonless Night: Wartime Diary of a Great Escaper

By B. A. James

The Great Escapers

By Tim Carroll

No Moon Tonight

By Don Charlwood

Boldness Be My Friend

By Richard Pape

The First Heroes

By Craig Nelson

War's Long Shadow: 69 Months of the Second World War

By Charlotte Popescu, The Earl of Kitchener

Mr Brown's War: A Diary of the Second World War

By Helen D. Millgate