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The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi, Nuala, Duncan Barrett

The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of Devon in 1944 - And the Man Who Discovered Their True Story

By Ken Small, Mark Rogerson

U-boat Peril: An Anti-submarine Commander's War

By Bob Whinney

Wars and Shadows: Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser

By Sir David Fraser

Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

By Bettina Stangneth

A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45

By Peter Conradi, Peter J. Conradi

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy

By Ben Macintyre

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

By Christopher Catherwood

Going Solo

By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France

By Ray Argyle, Maurice Vaisse

High Flight: The Life and Poetry of Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee

C.Q.B. (Close Quarter Battle)

By Mike Curtis

Nothing For Tears

By Lali Horstmann

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

By Eddie Jaku

The Last Collection

By Jeanne Mackin

Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last

By Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Elie Wiesel, Shimon Peres

Immediate Action

By Andy McNab

A Soldier's Sketchbook: From the Trenches of World War II

By Joseph Farris

Lonely Leader: Monty 1944-1945

By David Montgomery, Alistair Horne

The Will to Survive: Three and a Half Years as a Prisoner of the Japanese

By Arthur Godman

Far from the East End: The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home

By Iris Jones Simantel

Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.

By Stephen Walker

The Day We Went to War

By Terry Charman

Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary

By Joan Rice

Marshal Zhukov

By Axell, Albert

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

By Neil Sheehan

Shadows of Hiroshima

By Wilfred Burchett

Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia

By Sebastian O'Kelly

LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay

By Warren Kozak

Green Light!: Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story

By Martin Wolfe