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Goodbye East End

By David Merron

Colditz Last Stop: Four Countries, Eleven Prisons, Six Escapes

By Jack Pringle

Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters

By Sinclair McKay

The Twins of Auschwitz: The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell

By Kor, Eva Mozes, Buccieri, Lisa Rojany

The Unreturning Army

By Huntly Gordon

We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF Landings In France 1940-1944

By Hugh Verity (Author)

The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II

By Gregory A. Freeman

Rommel: Leadership Lessons from the Desert Fox

By Charles Messenger, Wesley K. Clark, Klaus Naumann

SAS Great Escapes

By Damien Lewis

Sniper One: 'The Best I've Ever Read' - Andy McNab

By Dan Mills

Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

By Richard Freiherr Von Rosen

No More Secrets: My part in codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

By Betty Webb, Kerry Howard

Alamein to Zem Zem

By keith douglas, Richard Skinner

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert, Ms Barbara Mellor

Stalin's Silver

By John Beasant

Open Road to Faraway: Escapes from Nazi POW Camps 1941-1945

By Andrew Sneddon Winton, Allan Carswell (Curator, The National War Museum, Scotland)

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

By Livia E. Bitton Jackson

Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

Witness to War: Diaries of the Second World War in Europe

By Richar Aldrich

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

By Catherine Bailey

Rosl's Daughter

By Liesl Muller-Johnson

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

By Caroline Moorehead

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

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

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

By Copleton, Jackie

Christine: A Search for Christine Granville

By MADELEINE MASSON

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

A Life in Questions

By Paxman, Jeremy