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Dancing in the Skies

By Tony Jonsson

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

By Robert Hutton

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

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson

Gladstone and the Logic of Victorian Politics

By Ian St John

Homenaje a Cataluna (Edicion definitiva avalada por The Orwell Estate) / Homage to Catalonia. (Definitive text endorsed by The Orwell Foundation)

By George Orwell

Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

By Traudl Junge

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

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

By Bart van Es

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

By Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn

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

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

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

By Susan Ottaway

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

By Daniel Finkelstein

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

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

By Alastair Panton

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

Fighting Back: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II

By Harold Werner, Mark Werner, Martin Gilbert

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky

Winged Victory: A Last Look Back - The Personal Reflections of Two Royal Air Force Leaders

By J. E. Johnson, Laddie Lucas

Signalman Jones: Based on the Recollections of Geoffrey Holder-Jones

By Tim Parker

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By Trumpington, Jean

Himmler: Reichsfuhrer S.S.

By Peter Padfield

The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List

By Leon Leyson

Alan Moorehead

By Tom Pocock

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World’s Most Famous Diary

By Frank, Anne

A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

By Vasily Grossman, Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova

Values, Belief and Survival: Dr.Elkhanan Elkes and the Kovno Ghetto - A Memoir

By Joel Elkes

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By Jon Meacham

Tales of Lancasters and Other Aircraft: Dangerous Skies in the Second World War

By George Culling