World War II Biographies & Memoirs

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot's Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France

By Alastair Panton

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

By Daniel Finkelstein

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

By Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

By Traudl Junge

Another Man's Shoes

By Somme, Sven

Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II

By Daniel James Brown

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

By Lynne Olson

I Love Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts

By Cate Ludlow

Commando: Winning World War II Behind Enemy Lines

By James Owen

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

By Volker Weidermann, Carol Janeway

Carve Her Name with Pride

By R., J. Minney

Rex Whistler's War

By Jenny Spencer-Smith, Alan J. Guy

D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander

By Sgt Trevor Greenwood, S. V. Partington

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

By Wendy Lower

J Etais Garde Du Corps D Hitler

By R Misch

Churchill's Bodyguard

By Tom Hickman

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By E. B. Sledge, Victor Davis Hanson

Corsican Command: A Dramatic First-hand Account of Clandestine Operations in the Western Mediterranean, 1943-1944

By Patrick Whinney

The Royal Family at War

By Theo Aronson

The Man Who Never Was: The Remarkable True Story of Operation Mincemeat

By Ewen Montagu

Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45

By Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, Johannes von Moltke, Dorothea von Moltke

The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

By Geve, Thomas, Inglefield, Charlie

Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography

By Sid Jacobson, Ernie Colón

Winston Churchill: A Life in the News

By Richard Toye (Professor of Modern History, University of Exeter)