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Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters

By Sinclair McKay

Rommel: Battles and Campaigns

By Macksey, Kenneth

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

By Jack Pringle

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and France's Greatest Treasure

By Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

The Railway Man

By Lomax, Eric

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

By Max Hastings

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

By Ian Buruma

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

By Hugh Trevor Roper

J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Abraham Pais

Meeting at Potsdam

By Charles L. Mee, Jr.

Gladstone and the Logic of Victorian Politics

By Ian St John

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson

The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 (Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-5)

By John Nichol and Tony Rennell, Nichol, John; Rennell, Tony, John, Rennell

Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

By Robert Hutton

Dancing in the Skies

By Tony Jonsson

Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship

By Frances Woodsford

The Lost: A search for six of six million

By Daniel Mendelsohn

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial

By Deborah E. Lipstadt

Where Fate Leads

By Harry Howarth

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

At Sea Level

By G.W. Searle

Memoirs of a Reluctant Batsman

By Cappy Masters

Berlin Soldier: The Explosive Memoir of a 12 Year-old German Boy Called Up to Fight in the Last Weeks of the Second World War

By Helmut Altner, Tony Tissier

Storm Over the Mersey

By Beryl Wade

The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story

By Jim Bailey

Battle Too Far: The True Story of Rifleman Henry Taylor

By Carole McEntee-Taylor

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War

By Adrian D. Gilbert

Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-45

By Philip Kaplan, Jack Currie

Return Via Rangoon

By Philip Stibbe