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Winged Victory: A Last Look Back - The Personal Reflections of Two Royal Air Force Leaders

By J. E. Johnson, Laddie Lucas

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson

The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 (Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-5)

By John Nichol and Tony Rennell, Nichol, John; Rennell, Tony, John, Rennell

The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

By Michael Smith

Confessions of an Optimist

By Woodrow Wyatt

Trampships, Tankers and Polite Conversation: Experiences of the Merchant Navy During the 1950's and 1960's.

By John Lee (University of Manchester)

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

By Lessing, Doris

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

Memoirs of a Reluctant Batsman

By Cappy Masters

Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

By Leo McKinstry

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-45

By Ursula Wyndham

Meeting at Potsdam

By Charles L. Mee, Jr.

A Mother's War

By Fey Von Hassell, D.Forbes- Watt

Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions

By Francis Wheen

The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story

By Jim Bailey

The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew

By David Price

Time and Chance: An Autobiography

By Peter Townsend

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Branch

Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie

By Joan Kent

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

The Railway Man (Vintage War) Exp

By Eric Lomax

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

By Jan Karski, Andrew Roberts

What It Is Like To Go To War

By Karl Marlantes

War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By Patrick Marnham

Young Hitler: The Making of the Fuhrer

By Paul Ham (author)

In The Shadow Of A Saint

By Ken Wiwa

FRIENDS, VOTERS, COUNTRYMEN

By Johnson

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

By David Rooney

Granny Made me an Anarchist

By Stuart Christie

Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-45

By Philip Kaplan, Jack Currie