World War II Biographies

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

First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

By Purnell, Sonia

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Gillies, Midge

Wine, Women and Song: A Spitfire Pilot's Story Compiled from Doug Brown's Letters and Reminscences

By Hamish Brown

War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944

By Iris Origo

A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War

By Makos, Adam

Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Defied the Gestapo

By Rees, Siân

Battlefield Bombers Deep Sea Attack

By Martin Bowman

A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

By Moorehead, Caroline, Caroline Moorehead

The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder (Vintage Editions)

By Modiano, Patrick

All for Freedom - A True story of escape from the Nazis

By D.T.A. Davies, Ioan Wyn Evans