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Colditz: The Full Story (Pan Military Classics Series)

By Reid, P. R.

The Long Gray Line

By Atkinson, Rick

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

By Urquhart, Alistair

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II

By MacIntyre, Ben

Death of a Hero: Secret Life and Death of Captain Robert Nairac

By Parker, John

Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr

By Lyndsey Jenkins

A Touch of Class: Story of Austin Reed

By Ritchie, Berry

Forging of a Rebel

By Barea, Arturo

Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra

By Kurth, Peter

Sagittarius Surviving

By Lewis, Cecil

Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story

By Quill, Jeffrey

No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper

By Harris, John

Paris & Elsewhere

By Cobb, Richard

Fen Boy First

By Storey, Edward

Woodbrook (Arena Books)

By Thomson, David

As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War

By Smith, Emma

The Smoking Diaries Volume 2: The Year Of The Jouncer

By Gray, Simon

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Picador Books)

By Sheehan, Neil

Orwell in Spain (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George, Davison, Peter, Hitchens, Christopher

The Diary of Anais Nin 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944): 03

By Nin, Anais

The Time of My Life: Entertaining the Troops - Her Wartime Journals

By Joyce Grenfell, James Roose-Evans

Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide

By Ilibagiza, Immaculée, Erwin, Steve

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

By Malan, Rian

My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette

By Pankhurst, Emmeline

Most Secret War (Wordsworth Military Library)

By Jones, R. V.

Only a Game?: The Diary of a Professional Footballer

By Dunphy, Eamon

The Invisible Wall

By Bernstein, Harry

Daughter of the River: An Autobiography

By Ying, Hong

Four Sisters of Hofei

By Chin, Ann-ping

On Hitler's Mountain

By Hunt