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Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War

By Hal Vaughan

Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket

By Fay, Stephen, Kynaston, David

Fate is the Hunter

By Ernest K Gann

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

By Karina Urbach, Jamie Bulloch

Soldiers of Salamis

By Javier Cercas

The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller

By Jon Lys-Turner

In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin

By Larson, Erik

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939-45

By Clare Campbell, Christy Campbell

The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War

By Tom Whipple

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten

By Lady Pamela Hicks

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II

By Tessa Dunlop

Among You Taking Notes...

By Naomi Mitchison

Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

By Luke Turner

For Those I Loved

By Martin Gray (Martin Gray)

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

Under The Wire

By William Ash

The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies

By Noreen Riols

The Search: The Birkenau Boys

By Gerhard Durlacher, Susan Massotty

Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration

By Noel Annan

Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning

By Paul Steinberg

1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

By Slavko Goldstein

A Different Kind of Courage, A

By Gretel Wachtel

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

By Edward Smithies

If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz

By Primo Levi, David Baddiel, Stuart Woolf

Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By Philipp von Boeselager

The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert

By David Fisher