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Sailor Malan: Battle of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan

By Philip Kaplan

Return Via Rangoon

By Philip Stibbe

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

By Bailey, Roderick

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

By David Rooney

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

Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-45

By Philip Kaplan, Jack Currie

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

By Laurence Rees

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

By Lewis Brandon (Author)

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

By Julian Borger

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

Reign of Terror: The Budapest Memoir of Valdemar Langlet

By Valdemar Langlet

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

By Alastair Dyson Panton

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

Soldier Spy

By Tom Marcus

The Cretan Runner

By George Psychoundakis

The Magician: Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize

By Colm Toibin

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

By Jonathan Ree

The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

By Robert K Wittman, David Kinney

Goebbels: The Life of Joseph Goebbels, the Mephistophelean Genius of Nazi Propaganda

By Raif Reuth

A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination

By Michael L. Morgan (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington)

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

By MacIntyre, Ben

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939

By Volker Ullrich, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Heinrich Himmler

By Peter Longerich (Professor of Modern German History, Royal Holloway University of London)

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

By Ian Buruma

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

By Max Hastings

The Railway Man

By Lomax, Eric

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and France's Greatest Treasure

By Don Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters

By Sinclair McKay