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Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

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

By Kate Thompson

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

By Daniel Finkelstein

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

By Susan Ottaway

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

By David Ross, James Douglas-Hamilton

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

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

By Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

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

By Bart van Es

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

Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

By Richard Bassett

Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

By Traudl Junge

Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

By Koselleck, Reinhart

Mengele: The Complete Story

By Gerald L. Posner, Michael Berenbaum, John Ware

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

By Carew, Keggie

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Zamperini, Louis, Rensin, David

Voices from the Battle of the Bulge

By Nigel de Lee, Major General Michael Reynolds CB

Enemy Coast Ahead- Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson (Soft Cover)

By Gibson, Guy

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

By Grossman, Vasily, Beevor, Antony, Vinogradova, Luba

Wimpy - A Detailed Illustrated History of the Vickers Wellington in Service, 1938-1953

By Steve Bond

The Railway Man

By Lomax, Eric

The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin

By James Brown, Daniel

Commandant Of Auschwitz (Age of Dictators 1920-1945)

By Rudolf Hoess

The Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning (The Jet Age Series)

By Richard Pike

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny

By Bullock, Alan

Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as ‘Schindler’s List'

By Thomas Keneally

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir (W&N Essentials)

By Mitford, Jessica

The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich

By Kershaw, Ian

Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers (Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

By Müller, Filip

Sniper One: ‘The Best I’ve Ever Read’ – Andy McNab

By Sgt. Dan Mills