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Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

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

By Max Hastings

A Writer At War, A

By Vasily Grossman, Edited and Transla and

The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax

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

By Robert Hardie

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

By Charles Whiting

British VCs of World War Two: A Study in Heroism

By John Laffin

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

By David M. Guss

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

By Russell Miller

The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

By Dominique Enright

Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

By Ebert, Lily, Forman, Dov

Achtung! Minen!: The Making of a Flail Tank Troop Commander

By Hammerton, Ian C.

PROSPER: Major Suttill's French Resistance Network (Espionage)

By Francis J. Suttill

A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

By Helm, Sarah

Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

By Holland, James

Hitler

By Fest, Joachim E., Winston, R., C.

Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

By Seaman, Mark

Her Finest Hour: The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent

By McDonald-Rothwell, Gabrielle

The Silent Service: The Inside Story of the Royal Navy's Submarine Heroes

By Parker, John

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

By Rees, Laurence

The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

By Szpilman, Wladyslaw

The Spirit of London

By Johnson, Boris

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Taylor Branch

Commando: The Inside Story of Britain's Royal Marines

By Monty Halls

Dare To Be A Daniel: Then and Now

By Benn, Tony

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

Edith's Story: The True Story of How One Young Girl Survived World War II

By Velmans, Edith, Hester

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