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Christine: A Search for Christine Granville

By MADELEINE MASSON

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

By Joachimsthaler, Anton, Bogler, Helmut

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

By Mazower, Mark

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

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

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

By Andrew Hodges

To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45

By Ranfurly Countess of Ranfurly, Hermione

Rosl's Daughter

By Liesl Muller-Johnson

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

By Caroline Moorehead

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

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

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

By Harry Leslie Smith

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

By Livia E. Bitton Jackson

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

By Sue Black

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

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

Stalin's Silver

By John Beasant

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

By Betty Webb, Kerry Howard

SAS Great Escapes

By Damien Lewis