World War II Biographies

Boldness Be My Friend

By Richard Pape

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

The First Heroes

By Craig Nelson

War's Long Shadow: 69 Months of the Second World War

By Charlotte Popescu, The Earl of Kitchener

Mr Brown's War: A Diary of the Second World War

By Helen D. Millgate

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Dame Vera Lynn, Virginia Lewis-Jones

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

Under The Wire

By William Ash

The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's School for Spies

By Noreen Riols

The Search: The Birkenau Boys

By Gerhard Durlacher, Susan Massotty

Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration

By Noel Annan

Speak You Also: A Survivor's Reckoning

By Paul Steinberg

1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

By Slavko Goldstein

A Different Kind of Courage, A

By Gretel Wachtel

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer's Life

By Richard Morris

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By Michael Vatikiotis

Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By Philipp von Boeselager

If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz

By Primo Levi, David Baddiel, Stuart Woolf

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

By Edward Smithies

The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert

By David Fisher

Fate is the Hunter

By Ernest K Gann

For Those I Loved

By Martin Gray (Martin Gray)

Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

By Luke Turner

Among You Taking Notes...

By Naomi Mitchison

Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II

By Tessa Dunlop

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten

By Lady Pamela Hicks

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood