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Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures

By Susan Ronald

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By Jonathan Freedland

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice

I Sank The Bismarck

By John Moffat

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz

By Erik Larson

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

Boy in the Blitz: The 1940 Diary of Colin Perry

By Colin Perry

Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege

By Alan Adelson, Robert Lapides

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

Stripes in the Sky: A Wartime Memoir

By Gerhard Durlacher, Susan Massotty

Maskerado: Dancing Around Death In Nazi Hungary

By Tivadar Soros

Hitler's Will

By Herman Rothman, Helen Fry

Voices from the Holocaust

By Jon E. Lewis

Explaining Hitler

By Ron Rosenbaum

In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen

By Nechama Tec (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut)

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

By Lara Feigel

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

By Ian Buruma

The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration

By Blumenthal, W. Michael

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

By Hilberg, Raul

I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust, 1939-45

By Henry Orenstein, Claude Lanzmann

Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin

By Nelman, Susan

Orde Wingate: Irregular Officer (Phoenix Giants S.)

By Royle, Trevor

Pearl Harbor

By H. P. Willmott

The Jester and the Kings

By Marek Halter

Operation Mincemeat

By Ben Macintyre

Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

By Benjamin Ferencz

Bandaging the Blitz

By Mrs Phyll Macdonald Ross, I. D. Roberts