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Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381

By Dan Jones

The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost

By Patrick Marnham

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942

By Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt, Euan Cameron

Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege

By Alan Adelson, Robert Lapides

The Jester and the Kings

By Marek Halter

Pearl Harbor

By H. P. Willmott

Orde Wingate: Irregular Officer (Phoenix Giants S.)

By Royle, Trevor

Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin

By Nelman, Susan

I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust, 1939-45

By Henry Orenstein, Claude Lanzmann

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

By Hilberg, Raul

The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews: A Personal Exploration

By Blumenthal, W. Michael

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

By Ian Buruma

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

By Lara Feigel

In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen

By Nechama Tec (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut)

Explaining Hitler

By Ron Rosenbaum

Voices from the Holocaust

By Jon E. Lewis

Hitler's Will

By Herman Rothman, Helen Fry

Maskerado: Dancing Around Death In Nazi Hungary

By Tivadar Soros

Stripes in the Sky: A Wartime Memoir

By Gerhard Durlacher, Susan Massotty

Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket

By Fay, Stephen, Kynaston, David

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War

By Hal Vaughan

I Was Hitler's Neighbour

By Edgar Feuchtwanger

A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz

By Goeran Rosenberg, Sarah Death, John Cullen

The Will to Live on

By Herman Wouk

Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

By Mark S Smith

D-day to Arnhem with the Hertfordshire Gunners: A Personal Account

By Robert Kiln

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

By John Henry Phillips

Wine and War

By Donald & Petie Kladstrup

Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War

By Dr. Ronald Blythe

Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44

By Glass, Charles