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

By Lise Kristensen

Andree's War: How One Young Woman Outwitted the Nazis

By Francelle Bradford White

Adolf Hitler

Dresden: A Survivor's Story, February 1945

By Victor Gregg, Rick Stroud

A Late Education

By Alan moorehead

Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

By Rochus Misch

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

By Laurence Rees

Heinrich Himmler

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

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

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

By MacIntyre, Ben

A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination

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

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

By Raif Reuth

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

By Robert K Wittman, David Kinney

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

By Jonathan Ree

The Cretan Runner

By George Psychoundakis

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

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

By Alastair Dyson Panton

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

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

By Julian Borger

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

By Lewis Brandon (Author)

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

By Leo Marks

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

By Campbell, Clare, Christy

Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood

By Brian Sanders

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

By Molly Corbally

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

By Damien Lewis

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

Churchill and the Dardanelles

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

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont