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A Life in Questions

By Paxman, Jeremy

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

Joseph Gray's Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies

By Mark Hollingsworth

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

Christine: A Search for Christine Granville

By MADELEINE MASSON

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding: The compelling Richard and Judy Summer Book Club winner

By Copleton, Jackie

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

Rosl's Daughter

By Liesl Muller-Johnson

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Goering

By David Irving

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Hess: The Fuhrer's Disciple

By Peter Padfield

Troublesome Young Men: the Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power in 1940 and Helped to Save Britain

By Lynne Olson

After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

By Eva Schloss

Boy in the Blitz: The 1940 Diary of Colin Perry

By Colin Perry

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz

By Erik Larson

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

I Sank The Bismarck

By John Moffat

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By Jonathan Freedland

Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures

By Susan Ronald

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine