World War II Biographies & Memoirs

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

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

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

By Lise Kristensen

Andree's War: How One Young Woman Outwitted the Nazis

By Francelle Bradford White

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet

Hanged at Auschwitz

By Sim Kessel, M. Wallace

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

The Tartan Pimpernel

By Donald Caskie, Mike Hughes

Tomorrow to be Brave

By Susan Travers, Wendy Holden

Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie

By Joan Kent

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

A Wren's Tale - the Secret Link to Bletchley Park: Memoirs of a Radio Mechanic at Scarborough Listening Station in the Second World War

By Muriel Davison

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea: Memoirs of a 1950s NHS Health Visitor

By Molly Corbally

Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood

By Brian Sanders

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939–45 (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Campbell, Clare, Christy

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945

By Leo Marks

Night Flyer: Pioneering Airborne Electronic Warfare With The 100 Group Mosquitos

By Lewis Brandon (Author)

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

By Julian Borger

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Heinrich Himmler

By Peter Longerich (Professor of Modern German History, Royal Holloway University of London)