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Bomber Harris: His Life and Times

By Henry Probert

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

By Boyne, John, John Boyne

Fire Strike 7/9

By Paul Grahame, Damien Lewis

Their Finest Hour

By Sir Winston S. Churchill

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust (With New Material)

By Frankl, Viktor E, Gilbert, Dr Martin

SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

By Damien Lewis

The Single Light

By Ernest Levy

SAS Brothers in Arms: The Mavericks Who Made the SAS: The First in the Blair 'Paddy' Mayne Trilogy

By Damien Lewis

Woodbrook (Arena Books)

By Thomson, David

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

By Damien Lewis

The Jungle is Neutral: The World Famous True Story of Guerilla Warfare Against the Japanese in Malaya

By Chapman F Spencer

Churchill as War Leader: Right or Wrong?

By Richard Lamb

Hitler's Forgotten Children: My Life Inside the Lebensborn

By Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

By Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer, David Cesarani, Lord Richard Attenborough

Heroes of the Holocaust Ordinary Britons who risked their lives t

By Lyn Smith

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II

By Ben Macintyre

Roy Jenkins

By John Campbell

Enigma: The Untold Story of the Secret Capture

By David Balme, Peter Hore

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer: One Pilot's Extraordinary Account of the Battle of France

By Alastair Panton

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

Secrets of the Lavender Girls: a heart-warming and gritty WW2 saga

By Kate Thompson

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

By Daniel Finkelstein

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Richard Hillary: The Definitive Biography of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot and Author of "the Last Enemy"

By David Ross, James Douglas-Hamilton

The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

By Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights

By Gillian Lynne