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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

Hitler

By Ian Kershaw

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

By Larry Loftis

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine

Losing the Dead

By L Appignanesi

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

By Lewis, Damien

The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

By Anthony Seldon

Do the birds still sing in Hell?

By Jim Greasley Horace, Ken Scott

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

Tin Ring: Love and Survival in the Holocaust

By Zdenka Fantlova

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

By Mazower, Mark

The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth

By Joachimsthaler, Anton, Bogler, Helmut

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max

Women Heroes of World War II-the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival

By Kathryn J. Atwood

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

By Susan Ronald

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

By Jonathan Freedland