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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

By Avey, Denis, Broomby, Rob

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Stephen Grady, Michael Wright

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Grady, Stephen, Wright, Michael

The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History

By Rose, Andrew

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks

By Grant, Thomas

Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks

By Grant, Thomas

Titanic 9 Hours to Hell: The Survivors' Story

By Bartlett, W. B.

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

A Spitfire Pilot's Story: Pat Hughes: Battle of Britain Top Gun

By Newton, Dennis

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE

By Thomas, Gordon, Lewis, Greg

The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines

By Mulley, Clare

Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Rappaport, Helen

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By Jean Trumpington

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

By Fuller, Alexandra, Enright, Anne

The Midwife's Sister: The Story of Call The Midwife's Jennifer Worth by her sister Christine

By Lee, Christine

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Mukhina, Lena, Darragh, Amanda Love

Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill

By Michael Shelden

What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

By Michele Hanson

The Secret History of the Blitz

By Levine, Joshua

Ayesha's Gift: A daughter's search for the truth about her father

By Sixsmith, Martin

The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words

By Ingrid Seward

The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

By Davies, Hunter

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge: An Illustrated Biography

By Maloney, James

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

By Vale, Allison

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

The Man who Broke Into Auschwitz

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby