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A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance

By Jonathan Ree

The Magician: Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize

By Colm Toibin

The Cretan Runner

By George Psychoundakis

Soldier Spy

By Tom Marcus

Tomorrow to be Brave

By Susan Travers, Wendy Holden

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie

By Joan Kent

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Branch

Island of Barbed Wire: The Remarkable Story of World War Two Internment on the Isle of Man

By Connery Chappell

SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers

By Damien Lewis

The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

By Philippe Sands, QC

The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew

By David Price

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice

Tynan Letters

By Kathleen Tynan

Hanged at Auschwitz

By Sim Kessel, M. Wallace

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

The Dog that Saved My Life: Incredible true stories of canine loyalty beyond all bounds (Heroes)

By George, Isabel

The Tartan Pimpernel

By Donald Caskie, Mike Hughes

Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival

By Karen Kirsten

Tomorrow to be Brave

By Susan Travers, Wendy Holden

Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood

By Brian Sanders

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: An RAF Pilot's Memoir of the Second World War

By Alastair Dyson Panton

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

By Julian Borger

Night Flyer: Pioneering Airborne Electronic Warfare With The 100 Group Mosquitos

By Lewis Brandon (Author)

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945

By Leo Marks

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939–45 (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Campbell, Clare, Christy

Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell

By Jonathan King

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)