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

By Raif Reuth

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

By Robert K Wittman, David Kinney

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

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

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)

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

By Jan Karski, Andrew Roberts

The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew

By David Price

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

By Philippe Sands, QC

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

By Damien Lewis

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

By Connery Chappell

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

By Branch

Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie

By Joan Kent

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

The Bedford Boys: One Small Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

By Alex Kershaw

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

By Joel Elkes

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War

By Adrian D. Gilbert

Battle Too Far: The True Story of Rifleman Henry Taylor

By Carole McEntee-Taylor

The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story

By Jim Bailey

Storm Over the Mersey

By Beryl Wade

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

By Patrick Marnham

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

By Simon Goodman

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice

Young Hitler: The Making of the Fuhrer

By Paul Ham (author)