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From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

By Edward Smithies

The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert

By David Fisher

Fate is the Hunter

By Ernest K Gann

For Those I Loved

By Martin Gray (Martin Gray)

Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

By Luke Turner

Among You Taking Notes...

By Naomi Mitchison

Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II

By Tessa Dunlop

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten

By Lady Pamela Hicks

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War

By Tom Whipple

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939-45

By Clare Campbell, Christy Campbell

In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin

By Larson, Erik

The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller

By Jon Lys-Turner

Soldiers of Salamis

By Javier Cercas

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

By Karina Urbach, Jamie Bulloch

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton

By Barbara Winton

Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate

By James Peill

Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

By Benjamin Ferencz

Bandaging the Blitz

By Mrs Phyll Macdonald Ross, I. D. Roberts

Operation Mincemeat

By Ben Macintyre

Secrets of the Homefront Girls

By Kate Thompson

The Rebecca Code: Rommel's Spy in North Africa and Operation Kondor

By Mark Simmons

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

By Shirer, William L

Making the Best of Things: Life During the War Years

Broadcasts From the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War

By Phillip Seib

Growing into War

By Michael Gill