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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

Christine: A Search for Christine Granville

By MADELEINE MASSON

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne

By David Fisher

Joseph Gray's Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

A Life in Questions

By Paxman, Jeremy

We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF Landings In France 1940-1944

By Hugh Verity (Author)

Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe

By Richar Aldrich

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

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

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

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

By Betty Webb, Kerry Howard

Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

By Richard Freiherr Von Rosen

SAS Great Escapes

By Damien Lewis

The Cretan Runner

By George Psychoundakis

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

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet