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The Cretan Runner

By George Psychoundakis

Soldier Spy

By Tom Marcus

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: An RAF Pilot's Memoir of the Second World War

By Alastair Dyson Panton

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

By Julian Borger

Night Flyer: Pioneering Airborne Electronic Warfare With The 100 Group Mosquitos

By Lewis Brandon (Author)

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945

By Leo Marks

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939–45 (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Campbell, Clare, Christy

Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood

By Brian Sanders

An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea: Memoirs of a 1950s NHS Health Visitor

By Molly Corbally

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

By David Rooney

War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By Patrick Marnham

Young Hitler: The Making of the Fuhrer

By Paul Ham (author)

Values, Belief and Survival: Dr.Elkhanan Elkes and the Kovno Ghetto - A Memoir

By Joel Elkes

Storm Over the Mersey

By Beryl Wade

The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story

By Jim Bailey

Battle Too Far: The True Story of Rifleman Henry Taylor

By Carole McEntee-Taylor

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War

By Adrian D. Gilbert

Terror in the Starboard Seat

By Dave McIntosh

Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-45

By Philip Kaplan, Jack Currie

Berlin Soldier: The Explosive Memoir of a 12 Year-old German Boy Called Up to Fight in the Last Weeks of the Second World War

By Helmut Altner, Tony Tissier

At Sea Level

By G.W. Searle

Meeting at Potsdam

By Charles L. Mee, Jr.

Memoirs of a Reluctant Batsman

By Cappy Masters

A Mother's War

By Fey Von Hassell, D.Forbes- Watt

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial

By Deborah E. Lipstadt