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Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

By Betty Webb, Kerry Howard

Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

Stalin's Silver

By John Beasant

Open Road to Faraway: Escapes from Nazi POW Camps 1941-1945

By Andrew Sneddon Winton, Allan Carswell (Curator, The National War Museum, Scotland)

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

By Livia E. Bitton Jackson

Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe

By Richar Aldrich

We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF Landings In France 1940-1944

By Hugh Verity (Author)

The Making of a General, 1887-1942 (v. 1) (Monty: Life of Montgomery of Alamein)

By Hamilton, Nigel

A Life in Questions

By Paxman, Jeremy

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

Joseph Gray's Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies

By Mark Hollingsworth

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

Losing the Dead

By L Appignanesi

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

By Larry Loftis

Hitler

By Ian Kershaw

Hess: The Fuhrer's Disciple

By Peter Padfield

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Goering

By David Irving

Christine: A Search for Christine Granville

By MADELEINE MASSON

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding: The compelling Richard and Judy Summer Book Club winner

By Copleton, Jackie