World War II Biographies & Memoirs

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

By Paul Addison (University of Edinburgh), Harriet Jones (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

My Life in France: The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

Commando: The Inside Story of Britain's Royal Marines

By Monty Halls

Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944, Third Edition

By Peter Hoffmann

Fighter Aces! the Constable Maxwell Brothers: Fighter Pilots in Two World Wars

By Alex Revell

RAF Bomber Stories: Dramatic First-hand Accounts of British and Commonwealth Airmen in World War 2

By Martin Bowman

Boom: The Life of Viscount Trenchard, Father of the Royal Air Force

By Russell Miller

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

British VCs of World War Two: A Study in Heroism

By John Laffin

Patton's Last Battle: The Spellmount Siegfried Line Series Volume Eight

By Charles Whiting

The Burma-Siam Railway: The Secret Diary of Dr.Robert Hardie, 1942-45

By Robert Hardie

The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax

A Writer At War, A

By Vasily Grossman, Edited and Transla and

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Max Hastings

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II

By Ian Buruma

The Hour of the Women

By Christian Graf Von Krockow, Christian von Krockow, Krishna Winston

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Monopoli Blues

By Tim Clark, Nick Cook

February 1933: The Winter of Literature

By Uwe Wittstock, Daniel Bowles

The Past Is Myself

By Bielenberg, Christabel

Born Survivors

By Wendy Holden

A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, Holocaust Survivor

By Caroline Stoessinger

Chapters of Accidents: A Writer's Memoir

By alexander Baron, Colin Holmes, Nick Baron

Children's Wartime Diaries: Secret Writings from the Holocaust and World War II

By Laurel Holliday

The Essential Spike Milligan

By Compiled By Alexander Games, Spike Milligan, Alexander Games, Eddie Izzard

Gunboat Command

By Anthony Hitchens

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

By Sonia Purnell

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny

By Alan Bullock