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A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War

By Tom Whipple

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939-45

By Clare Campbell, Christy Campbell

In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin

By Larson, Erik

The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller

By Jon Lys-Turner

Soldiers of Salamis

By Javier Cercas

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

By Karina Urbach, Jamie Bulloch

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton

By Barbara Winton

Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate

By James Peill

Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

By Benjamin Ferencz

Bandaging the Blitz

By Mrs Phyll Macdonald Ross, I. D. Roberts

Operation Mincemeat

By Ben Macintyre

Secrets of the Homefront Girls

By Kate Thompson

The Rebecca Code: Rommel's Spy in North Africa and Operation Kondor

By Mark Simmons

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

By Shirer, William L

Making the Best of Things: Life During the War Years

Broadcasts From the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War

By Phillip Seib

Growing into War

By Michael Gill

Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381

By Dan Jones

The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost

By Patrick Marnham

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942

By Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt, Euan Cameron

Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege

By Alan Adelson, Robert Lapides

The Jester and the Kings

By Marek Halter

Pearl Harbor

By H. P. Willmott

Orde Wingate: Irregular Officer (Phoenix Giants S.)

By Royle, Trevor

Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin

By Nelman, Susan

I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust, 1939-45

By Henry Orenstein, Claude Lanzmann

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

By Hilberg, Raul

The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration

By Blumenthal, W. Michael