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Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

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

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

By Catherine Bailey

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

Christine: A Search for Christine Granville

By MADELEINE MASSON

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

By Copleton, Jackie

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

Rosl's Daughter

By Liesl Muller-Johnson

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Goering

By David Irving

The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth

By Joachimsthaler, Anton, Bogler, Helmut

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By Jonathan Freedland

Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures

By Susan Ronald

Troublesome Young Men: the Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power in 1940 and Helped to Save Britain

By Lynne Olson

Tin Ring: Love and Survival in the Holocaust

By Zdenka Fantlova

Women Heroes of World War II-the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival

By Kathryn J. Atwood

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max

Hitler

By Ian Kershaw

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

By Larry Loftis

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine