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A Good Man in Evil Times: Aristides de Sousa Mendes - The Unknown Hero Who Saved Countless Lives in WWII

By Jose-Alain Fralon, Peter Graham

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

By Anne de Courcy

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Monica Waitzfelder, Peter Bush, Serge Klarsfeld

Commander of the Exodus

By Yoram Kaniuk, Seymour Simckes

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man from Moscow

By Paul Willetts

In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust

By Eugene L. Pogany

Magda Goebbels

By Anja Klabunde

My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank

By Jacqueline van Maarsen, Hester Velmans

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Serge Klarsfeld

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By Ben Macintyre

The Last Survivor: The miraculous true story of the Holocaust prisoner who survived three concentration camps

By Frank Krake

The Last Survivor: The miraculous true story of the Holocaust prisoner who survived three concentration camps

By Frank Krake

Petain's Crime: The Full Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust

By Paul Webster

A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto

By Abraham Lewin, Antony Polonsky, C. Austin

One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe

By Monica Dickens, Marina Lewycka

Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5

By Major Robert Lyman

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

By John Henry Phillips

Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket

By Fay, Stephen, Kynaston, David

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War

By Hal Vaughan

I Was Hitler's Neighbour

By Edgar Feuchtwanger

A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz

By Goeran Rosenberg, Sarah Death, John Cullen

The Will to Live on

By Herman Wouk

Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

By Mark S Smith

D-day to Arnhem with the Hertfordshire Gunners: A Personal Account

By Robert Kiln

Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44

By Glass, Charles

To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45

By Victor Klemperer

The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

By Victor Klemperer

Special Tasks: Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness a Soviet Spymaster

By Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schector

Spitfire: The Autobiography

By Jon E. Lewis

Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War

By Dr. Ronald Blythe