World War II Biographies

A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination

By Michael L. Morgan (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington)

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell

By Jonathan King

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

A Wren's Tale - the Secret Link to Bletchley Park: Memoirs of a Radio Mechanic at Scarborough Listening Station in the Second World War

By Muriel Davison

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea: Memoirs of a 1950s NHS Health Visitor

By Molly Corbally

Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood

By Brian Sanders

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939–45 (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Campbell, Clare, Christy

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945

By Leo Marks

Night Flyer: Pioneering Airborne Electronic Warfare With The 100 Group Mosquitos

By Lewis Brandon (Author)

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

By Julian Borger

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: An RAF Pilot's Memoir of the Second World War

By Alastair Dyson Panton

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

Soldier Spy

By Tom Marcus

The Cretan Runner

By George Psychoundakis

The Magician: Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize

By Colm Toibin

A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance

By Jonathan Ree

The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

By Robert K Wittman, David Kinney

Goebbels: The Life of Joseph Goebbels, the Mephistophelean Genius of Nazi Propaganda

By Raif Reuth

The Railway Man

By Lomax, Eric

The Blue Door: A little girl's incredible story of survival in the Japanese POW camps of Java

By Lise Kristensen

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

The Last Days of Hitler: The Classic Account of Hitler's Fall From Power

By Hugh Trevor Roper

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

By Ian Buruma

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

By Max Hastings

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters

By Sinclair McKay