World War II Biographies

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Grady, Stephen, Wright, Michael

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

A Spitfire Pilot's Story: Pat Hughes: Battle of Britain Top Gun

By Newton, Dennis

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE

By Thomas, Gordon, Lewis, Greg

The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines

By Mulley, Clare

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By Jean Trumpington

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Mukhina, Lena, Darragh, Amanda Love

The Secret History of the Blitz

By Levine, Joshua

The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

By Davies, Hunter

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

By Owtram, H. C.

East West Street: on the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity: Non-fiction Book of the Year 2017

By Sands, Philippe

East West Street: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

By Sands, Philippe

The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

By Sands, Philippe, Sands QC

Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

By Spiegel, Renia, Dziurosz, Marta, Blasiak, Anna

The Road Back to Paris

By Leibling, A.J.

The War: A Memoir

By Duras, Marguerite, Bray, Barbara

Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

By Spitz, Vivien

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich

By Eric Metaxas

The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War

By Feigel, Lara

American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics Of Russell W. Volckmann: The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and became “Father” of Special Forces

By Guardia, Mike

Teenage Resistance Fighter: With the Maquisards in Occupied France

By Verneret, Hubert, Depardon, Patrick

Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim

By Russell Miller

The Silver Spitfire: The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in his Own Words

By Wg Cdr Tom Neil

Tomorrow You Die: The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese

By Coogan, Andy

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Lynn, Dame Vera, Lewis-Jones, Virginia

Fighting for the Empire: An Irish Doctor’s Adventures Through Imperial Campaigns and Two World Wars

By Worsfold, David