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Tiger Moths to Typhoons: The Story of a World War Two Fighter Pilot

By Watson, Peter, Parlour, Andy, Parlour, Sue

The Lion and the Eagle: Polish Second World War Veterans in Scotland (Voice of war series)

By Henderson, Diana M.

From Belsen to Buckingham Palace

By Oppenheimer, Paul

Letters to Sturry: June 1940 & November 1940

Sixty Years on: 1944-1945 Remembered

By David Arnold, Vera Lynn

Moondrop to Gascony

By Anne Marie Walters

Thirty Men and a Girl: A Singer's Memoirs of War, Mountains, Travel, and Always Music

By Parry, Elisabeth

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

By Roberts, Andrew

Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler

By Simon Dunstan, Gerrard Williams

Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood

By Frisby, Terence

Rifleman: A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

By Gregg, Victor, Stroud, Rick

The Rough Guide to Tanzania (Rough Guides)

By Rough Guides

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

By Avey, Denis, Broomby, Rob

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Stephen Grady, Michael Wright

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Grady, Stephen, Wright, Michael

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

By Johnson, Boris

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

A Spitfire Pilot's Story: Pat Hughes: Battle of Britain Top Gun

By Newton, Dennis

Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

By Olive DFC, Gordon, Newton, Dennis

Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE

By Thomas, Gordon, Lewis, Greg

The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines

By Mulley, Clare

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

By Jean Trumpington

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Mukhina, Lena, Darragh, Amanda Love

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