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Nine Lives: Air Commodore Alan Deere

By Alan Deere, Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding

Unbroken

By Hillenbrand, Laura

Memoirs of a Goldfish: Experiences of a World War II Bomber Pilot and POW

By Jim Burtt-Smith

Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete

By Leigh Fermor, Patrick

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park

By Michael Smith

Waiting For Hitler

By Midge Gillies

We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End

By Winston Churchill

Moonless Night: Wartime Diary of a Great Escaper

By B. A. James

The Soldier Who Came Back

By Steve Foster, Alan Clark

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

By Harry Pardoe

Boldness Be My Friend

By Richard Pape

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

The First Heroes

By Craig Nelson

War's Long Shadow: 69 Months of the Second World War

By Charlotte Popescu, The Earl of Kitchener

Mr Brown's War: A Diary of the Second World War

By Helen D. Millgate

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Dame Vera Lynn, Virginia Lewis-Jones

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

Under The Wire

By William Ash

The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies

By Noreen Riols

The Search: The Birkenau Boys

By Gerhard Durlacher, Susan Massotty

Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration

By Noel Annan

Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning

By Paul Steinberg

1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

By Slavko Goldstein

A Different Kind of Courage, A

By Gretel Wachtel

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer's Life

By Richard Morris

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By Michael Vatikiotis

Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By Philipp von Boeselager

If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz

By Primo Levi, David Baddiel, Stuart Woolf