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Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

Christine: A Search for Christine Granville

By MADELEINE MASSON

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding: The compelling Richard and Judy Summer Book Club winner

By Copleton, Jackie

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

Rosl's Daughter

By Liesl Muller-Johnson

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Goering

By David Irving

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Hess: The Fuhrer's Disciple

By Peter Padfield

Hitler

By Ian Kershaw

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

By Larry Loftis

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine

Losing the Dead

By L Appignanesi

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By Jonathan Freedland

After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

By Eva Schloss

Boy in the Blitz: The 1940 Diary of Colin Perry

By Colin Perry

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz

By Erik Larson

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

I Sank The Bismarck

By John Moffat

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth

By Joachimsthaler, Anton, Bogler, Helmut

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max

Women Heroes of World War II-the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival

By Kathryn J. Atwood