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D-day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France

By Frank 'Dutch' Holland, Adam Wilkins

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink

By Anthony McCarten

"Bomber" Harris: His Life and Times

By Henry Probert

From Bouncing Bombs to Concorde: The Authorised Biography of Aviation Pioneer Sir George Edwards OM

By Robert Gardner, Sir John Major

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

By Jerry Roberts, Paddy O'Connell

Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway

By Reg Twigg

Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed

By (The Revd Canon) Patrick Woodhouse

Bacterial Signalling

By Jung, Kirsten, Kramer, Reinhard

Hitler: Pt.1

By Mary Fulbrook, Derrick Murphy

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War

By Simon Parkin

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man

By Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh

Maidens' Trip

By Emma Smith

Wellington: The Iron Duke

By Holmes, Richard

Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield

By Hastings, Max

Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood

By Andrew Borowiec

W. B. Yeats: The Poems

By W. B. Yeats, Daniel Albright

The Real Gorbals Story: True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets

By Colin MacFarlane

The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis

By Wes Davis

The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Levi, Primo, Rosenthal, Raymond

An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation

By Tom Brokaw

The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family

By Mary S. Lovell

Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

By Walter Cronkite, Maurice Isserman

Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler

By Svenja O'Donnell

The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto - 75th Anniversary Edition

By Mary Berg, Susan Lee Pentlin

Christmas Around the Village Green: In a WWII 1940s rural village, family means the world at Christmastime

By Dot May Dunn

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Roland Philipps

Burma: The Longest War, 1941-45

By Louis Allen

The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler

By John D. Lukacs

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man

By Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh

The Ups & Downs of a Gunner My Life Story

By Albert Figg