World War II Biographies & Memoirs

Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis

By Kershaw, Ian

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Karski, Jan

Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust

By Fried, Hédi, Olsson, Alice E.

The Past is Myself (Slightly Foxed Editions) no.23

By Bielenberg, Christabel

Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

By Shakespeare, Nicholas

Survival: Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Story

By Wendy Whitworth

Hitler's Englishman: The Crime of Lord Haw-Haw

By Selwyn, Francis

Churchill: An Extraordinary Life

By Gristwood, Sarah, Gaskin, Margaret

Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed

By Woodhouse, Patrick

A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz

By Kraus, Dita

Letters from Westerbork

By Hillesum, Etty, Pomerans, A.J.

When the Moon Rises: An Escape Through Wartime Italy

By Davies Tony

The Saboteur of Auschwitz: The Inspiring True Story of a British Soldier Held Prisoner in Auschwitz

By Rushton, Colin

The Spitfire Kids: The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter

By Cross, Alasdair, BBC Worldwide

Mrs. Milburn's Diaries: An Englishwoman's Day to Day Reflections, 1939-45

By Milburn, Clara Emily, Donnelly, Peter

Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War

By Glass, Charles

England's Hour

By Brittain, Vera

Spitfire Deserter?: The American Pilot Who Went Missing

By Simpson, Bill

Hitler's Children

By Knopp, Guido

Inside The Third Reich

By Speer, Albert

Churchill's Bodyguard

By Hickman, Tom

Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D.Eisenhower

By Ambrose, Stephen E.

King's Counsellor: Abdication and War - The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles

By Hart-Davis, Duff

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

By Kristensen, Lise

A Detail of History (Witness Collection)

By Hersh, Arek

I Remember Nothing More

By Blady Szwajger, Adina

My Heart in a Suitcase (Library of Holocaust Testimonies)

By Anne L. Fox

Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend

By Dillon, Martin, Bradford, Roy

Time's Witnesses: Women's Voices from the Holocaust

By Jakob Lothe, Translated by Anne Marie Hagen

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History: v. 1 (Pantheon Graphic Library)

By Spiegelman, Art