World War II Biographies

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

By Paul Addison (University of Edinburgh), Harriet Jones (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

My Life in France: The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

Commando: The Inside Story of Britain's Royal Marines

By Monty Halls

Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944, Third Edition

By Peter Hoffmann

Fighter Aces! the Constable Maxwell Brothers: Fighter Pilots in Two World Wars

By Alex Revell

RAF Bomber Stories: Dramatic First-hand Accounts of British and Commonwealth Airmen in World War 2

By Martin Bowman

Boom: The Life of Viscount Trenchard, Father of the Royal Air Force

By Russell Miller

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Max Hastings

On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures: An Adventure in Books

By Smith, Wilbur

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

British VCs of World War Two: A Study in Heroism

By John Laffin

Patton's Last Battle: The Spellmount Siegfried Line Series Volume Eight

By Charles Whiting

The Burma-Siam Railway: The Secret Diary of Dr.Robert Hardie, 1942-45

By Robert Hardie

The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax

A Writer At War, A

By Vasily Grossman, Edited and Transla and

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

By Laura Hillenbrand

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II

By Ian Buruma

The Hour of the Women

By Christian Graf Von Krockow, Christian von Krockow, Krishna Winston

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Monopoli Blues

By Tim Clark, Nick Cook

Letters to Camondo: 'Immerses you in another age' Financial Times

By Edmund de Waal

February 1933: The Winter of Literature

By Uwe Wittstock, Daniel Bowles

The Past Is Myself

By Bielenberg, Christabel

Rush: The Autobiography

By Rush, Ian

Born Survivors

By Wendy Holden

A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, Holocaust Survivor

By Caroline Stoessinger

Chapters of Accidents: A Writer's Memoir

By alexander Baron, Colin Holmes, Nick Baron

Children's Wartime Diaries: Secret Writings from the Holocaust and World War II

By Laurel Holliday