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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

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