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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

By Jan Karski, Andrew Roberts

The Orpheus Clock: the search for my family's art treasures stolen by the Nazis

By Simon Goodman

War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By Patrick Marnham

Young Hitler: The Making of the Fuhrer

By Paul Ham (author)

Values, Belief and Survival: Dr.Elkhanan Elkes and the Kovno Ghetto - A Memoir

By Joel Elkes

Storm Over the Mersey

By Beryl Wade

The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story

By Jim Bailey

Battle Too Far: The True Story of Rifleman Henry Taylor

By Carole McEntee-Taylor

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War

By Adrian D. Gilbert

Terror in the Starboard Seat

By Dave McIntosh

Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-45

By Philip Kaplan, Jack Currie

Berlin Soldier: The Explosive Memoir of a 12 Year-old German Boy Called Up to Fight in the Last Weeks of the Second World War

By Helmut Altner, Tony Tissier

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

By David Rooney

Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There

By Bailey, Roderick

Return Via Rangoon

By Philip Stibbe

Sailor Malan: Battle of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan

By Philip Kaplan

Fate is the Hunter

By Ernest K. Gann

A Mother's War

By Fey Von Hassell, D.Forbes- Watt

Meeting at Potsdam

By Charles L. Mee, Jr.

Memoirs of a Reluctant Batsman

By Cappy Masters

At Sea Level

By G.W. Searle

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial

By Deborah E. Lipstadt

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

By Alexander McCall Smith

Secrets of the Lavender Girls: a heart-warming and gritty WW2 saga

By Kate Thompson

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot's Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France

By Alastair Panton

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

Homenaje a Cataluna (Edicion definitiva avalada por The Orwell Estate) / Homage to Catalonia. (Definitive text endorsed by The Orwell Foundation)

By George Orwell

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World’s Most Famous Diary

By Frank, Anne