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Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

By Traudl Junge

Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

By Richard Bassett

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

By Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn

The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

Richard Hillary: The Definitive Biography of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot and Author of "the Last Enemy"

By David Ross, James Douglas-Hamilton

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

By Daniel Finkelstein

Secrets of the Lavender Girls: a heart-warming and gritty WW2 saga

By Kate Thompson

Tales of Lancasters and Other Aircraft: Dangerous Skies in the Second World War

By George Culling

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson

Gladstone and the Logic of Victorian Politics

By Ian St John

Diary of an Occupation

By Baron Max Von Aufsess, Kathleen Nowlan

Winged Victory: A Last Look Back - The Personal Reflections of Two Royal Air Force Leaders

By J. E. Johnson, Laddie Lucas

D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944

By Sprech Media, Holger Eckhertz

Signalman Jones: Based on the Recollections of Geoffrey Holder-Jones

By Tim Parker

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By Trumpington, Jean

Himmler: Reichsfuhrer S.S.

By Peter Padfield

The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List

By Leon Leyson

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky

Homenaje a Cataluna (Edicion definitiva avalada por The Orwell Estate) / Homage to Catalonia. (Definitive text endorsed by The Orwell Foundation)

By George Orwell

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot's Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France

By Alastair Panton

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

By Alexander McCall Smith

Fighting Back: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II

By Harold Werner, Mark Werner, Martin Gilbert

A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

By Vasily Grossman, Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By Jon Meacham

Alan Moorehead

By Tom Pocock