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Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie

By Joan Kent

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Branch

Island of Barbed Wire: The Remarkable Story of World War Two Internment on the Isle of Man

By Connery Chappell

SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers

By Damien Lewis

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

By Philippe Sands, QC

The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew

By David Price

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

By Robert Hutton

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

By Francelle Bradford White

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

By Lise Kristensen

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Abraham Pais

The Last Days of Hitler: The Classic Account of Hitler's Fall From Power

By Hugh Trevor Roper

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

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

By Jack Pringle

Rommel: Battles and Campaigns

By Macksey, Kenneth

Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters

By Sinclair McKay

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

By Kor, Eva Mozes, Buccieri, Lisa Rojany

Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov

By Geoffrey Roberts

The Unreturning Army

By Huntly Gordon

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

By Caroline Moorehead

The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story

By Gwen Strauss

Stirling's Men: The Inside History of the SAS inWorld War II

By Mortimer, Gavin

The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival

By Tova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant

The Children who Fought Hitler

By Sue Elliott, James Fox

The Story of a Life

By Aharon Appelfeld