World War II Biographies & Memoirs

High Flight: The Life and Poetry of Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee

C.Q.B. (Close Quarter Battle)

By Mike Curtis

Nothing For Tears

By Lali Horstmann

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

By Eddie Jaku

Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last

By Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Elie Wiesel, Shimon Peres

A Soldier's Sketchbook: From the Trenches of World War II

By Joseph Farris

Lonely Leader: Monty 1944-1945

By David Montgomery, Alistair Horne

The Will to Survive: Three and a Half Years as a Prisoner of the Japanese

By Arthur Godman

Going Solo (The Centenary Collection)

By Dahl, Roald

Alexander the Great

By Lane Fox, Robin

Far from the East End: The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home

By Iris Jones Simantel

The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France

By Ray Argyle, Maurice Vaisse

The Day We Went to War

By Terry Charman

Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary

By Joan Rice

Marshal Zhukov

By Axell, Albert

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

By Neil Sheehan

Shadows of Hiroshima

By Wilfred Burchett

Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia

By Sebastian O'Kelly

Green Light!: Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story

By Martin Wolfe

D-day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France

By Frank 'Dutch' Holland, Adam Wilkins

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink

By Anthony McCarten

"Bomber" Harris: His Life and Times

By Henry Probert

From Bouncing Bombs to Concorde: The Authorised Biography of Aviation Pioneer Sir George Edwards OM

By Robert Gardner, Sir John Major