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The Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-45

By Frank Williams, Ronald Williams

Winston Churchill: A Life in the News

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

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

Commando: Winning World War II Behind Enemy Lines

By James Owen

Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography

By Sid Jacobson, Ernie Colón

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

By Geve, Thomas, Inglefield, Charlie

Priests de la Resistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century

By Butler-Gallie, The Revd Fergus

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

By Patrick Whinney

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

By Ewen Montagu

The Royal Family at War

By Theo Aronson

My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900- 1944

By Doerry, Martin, Brownjohn, John

A Biographical Dictionary of World War II.

By Christopher Tunney

Shantung Compound

By Langdon Gilkey

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

By Frankl, Viktor E

Ivan's War: The Red Army 1939-1945

By Catherine Merridale

Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

By Janina Bauman

The Letters

By Bennett, John F

Inherit the Truth, 1939-1945: The Documented Experiences of a Survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen

By Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Field of Fire: Diary of a Gunner Officer

By Jack Swaab

Windsor Diaries: A Childhood with the Princesses

By Alathea Fitzalan Howard

The Men Behind Monty: The Staff and HQs of Eighth Army and 21st Army Group

By Richard Mead

SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-And-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour

By Damien Lewis