World War II Biographies

Heinrich Himmler

By Peter Longerich (Professor of Modern German History, Royal Holloway University of London)

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

A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination

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

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

By MacIntyre, Ben

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Colditz Last Stop: Four Countries, Eleven Prisons, Six Escapes

By Jack Pringle

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

By Ian Buruma

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

By Max Hastings

The Railway Man

By Lomax, Eric

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and France's Greatest Treasure

By Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

The Twins of Auschwitz: The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell

By Kor, Eva Mozes, Buccieri, Lisa Rojany

Notes From the Blockade

By Lydia Ginzburg, Alan Myers, Angela Livingstone