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Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

By Ian Buruma

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

By Lara Feigel

In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen

By Nechama Tec (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut)

Explaining Hitler

By Ron Rosenbaum

Voices from the Holocaust

By Jon E. Lewis

Hitler's Will

By Herman Rothman, Helen Fry

Maskerado: Dancing Around Death In Nazi Hungary

By Tivadar Soros

Stripes in the Sky: A Wartime Memoir

By Gerhard Durlacher, Susan Massotty

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

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

By John Henry Phillips

Wine and War

By Donald & Petie Kladstrup

Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War

By Dr. Ronald Blythe

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

By Glass, Charles

Special Tasks: Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness a Soviet Spymaster

By Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schector

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

By Victor Klemperer

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

By Victor Klemperer

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

Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5

By Major Robert Lyman

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

A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto

By Abraham Lewin, Antony Polonsky, C. Austin

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

By Paul Webster

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

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By Ben Macintyre