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World War II Biographies & Memoirs

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The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne

By David Fisher

Joseph Gray's Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

A Life in Questions

By Paxman, Jeremy

We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF Landings In France 1940-1944

By Hugh Verity (Author)

Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe

By Richar Aldrich

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

By Livia E. Bitton Jackson

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

Open Road to Faraway: Escapes from Nazi POW Camps 1941-1945

By Andrew Sneddon Winton, Allan Carswell (Curator, The National War Museum, Scotland)

Stalin's Silver

By John Beasant

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

By Betty Webb, Kerry Howard

Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

By Richard Freiherr Von Rosen

SAS Great Escapes

By Damien Lewis

The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II

By Gregory A. Freeman

Admiral Nimitz: The Commander of the Pacific Ocean Theater

By Brayton Harris

Jean Moulin, 1899 - 1943: The French Resistance and the Republic

By A. Clinton

Eisenhower

By John Wukovits, Wesley K. Clark

Ernst Roehm

By E. Hancock

SOME SUNNY DAY

By Lynn, Dame Vera

Mathematics with Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb

By Mary Stopes-Roe

A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

By Ernst Junger (Klett-Cotta), Elliot Neaman, Thomas S. Hansen, Abby J. Hansen

Articles of War: "Spectator" Book of World War II

By Philip Marsden-Smedley, Fiona Glass, Ludovic Kennedy

Chanel's Riviera

By Anne de Courcy

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

By Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong

Churchill & Smuts: From Enemies to Lifelong Friends

By Richard Steyn