World War II Biographies & Memoirs

Private Battles

By Simon Garfield

Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war

By Andrew March, Christopher Cocksworth

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By Sir Max Hastings

Last Letters Home

By Tamasin Day-Lewis

The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb

By James Kunetka

Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War

By Ian Kershaw

Ten Years at Hitler's Side: The Testimony of Wilhelm Keitel

Hitler's Enforcers: Leaders of the German War Machine, 1939-45

By James Lucas

One of the Few

By Kent Johnny

Tail Gunner

By Richard C. Rivaz

No Ordinary Pilot: One young man's extraordinary exploits in World War II

By Suzanne Campbell-Jones

Doctor's Occupation

By John Lewis

Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

By Lee Trimble, Jeremy Dronfield

Nine Lives: Air Commodore Alan Deere

By Alan Deere, Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding

Unbroken

By Hillenbrand, Laura

Memoirs of a Goldfish: Experiences of a World War II Bomber Pilot and POW

By Jim Burtt-Smith

Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

By Leigh Fermor, Patrick

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park

By Michael Smith

Waiting For Hitler

By Midge Gillies

We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End

By Winston Churchill

Moonless Night: Wartime Diary of a Great Escaper

By B. A. James

The Soldier Who Came Back

By Steve Foster, Alan Clark

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

By Harry Pardoe

Boldness Be My Friend

By Richard Pape

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

The First Heroes

By Craig Nelson

War's Long Shadow: 69 Months of the Second World War

By Charlotte Popescu, The Earl of Kitchener

Mr Brown's War: A Diary of the Second World War

By Helen D. Millgate

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Dame Vera Lynn, Virginia Lewis-Jones