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Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

By Richard Freiherr Von Rosen

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

By Betty Webb, Kerry Howard

Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

Stalin's Silver

By John Beasant

Open Road to Faraway: Escapes from Nazi POW Camps 1941-1945

By Andrew Sneddon Winton, Allan Carswell (Curator, The National War Museum, Scotland)

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

By Livia E. Bitton Jackson

Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe

By Richar Aldrich

We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF Landings In France 1940-1944

By Hugh Verity (Author)

The Making of a General, 1887-1942 (v. 1) (Monty: Life of Montgomery of Alamein)

By Hamilton, Nigel

A Life in Questions

By Paxman, Jeremy

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

Joseph Gray's Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

Magda Goebbels

By Anja Klabunde

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

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Serge Klarsfeld

My Name is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank

By Jacqueline van Maarsen, Hester Velmans

Lure of Fantasy, The:Bernard Shaw Volume III 1918-1950: Lure of Fantasy, 1918-50 v. 3

By Holroyd, M

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

By Anne de Courcy

Spitfire: The Autobiography

By Jon E. Lewis

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Monica Waitzfelder, Peter Bush, Serge Klarsfeld