World War II Biographies & Memoirs

Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler

By Simon Dunstan, Gerrard Williams

Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood

By Frisby, Terence

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

By Avey, Denis, Broomby, Rob

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Stephen Grady, Michael Wright

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Grady, Stephen, Wright, Michael

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

A Spitfire Pilot's Story: Pat Hughes: Battle of Britain Top Gun

By Newton, Dennis

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE

By Thomas, Gordon, Lewis, Greg

The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines

By Mulley, Clare

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By Jean Trumpington

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Mukhina, Lena, Darragh, Amanda Love

The Secret History of the Blitz

By Levine, Joshua

The Man who Broke Into Auschwitz

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

East West Street: on the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity: Non-fiction Book of the Year 2017

By Sands, Philippe

East West Street: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

By Sands, Philippe

The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

By Sands, Philippe, Sands QC

Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

By Spiegel, Renia, Dziurosz, Marta, Blasiak, Anna

The Road Back to Paris

By Leibling, A.J.

Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

By Spitz, Vivien

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich

By Eric Metaxas

The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War

By Feigel, Lara

American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics Of Russell W. Volckmann: The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and became “Father” of Special Forces

By Guardia, Mike

Teenage Resistance Fighter: With the Maquisards in Occupied France

By Verneret, Hubert, Depardon, Patrick

Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim

By Russell Miller

The Silver Spitfire: The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in his Own Words

By Wg Cdr Tom Neil

Tomorrow You Die: The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese

By Coogan, Andy