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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945

By Leo Marks

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939–45 (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Campbell, Clare, Christy

Evacuee: A Wartime Childhood

By Brian Sanders

An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea: Memoirs of a 1950s NHS Health Visitor

By Molly Corbally

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

A Wren's Tale - the Secret Link to Bletchley Park: Memoirs of a Radio Mechanic at Scarborough Listening Station in the Second World War

By Muriel Davison

Churchill and the Dardanelles

By Christopher M. Bell (Professor of History, Dalhousie University)

Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell

By Jonathan King

Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears

By Max Egremont

Tomorrow to be Brave

By Susan Travers, Wendy Holden

Tomorrow to be Brave

By Susan Travers, Wendy Holden

Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival

By Karen Kirsten

The Tartan Pimpernel

By Donald Caskie, Mike Hughes

The Dog that Saved My Life: Incredible true stories of canine loyalty beyond all bounds (Heroes)

By George, Isabel

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

By Ian Kershaw

Hanged at Auschwitz

By Sim Kessel, M. Wallace

Tynan Letters

By Kathleen Tynan

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice

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

The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story

By Sally Magnusson

Dancing in the Skies

By Tony Jonsson

The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 (Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-5)

By John Nichol and Tony Rennell, Nichol, John; Rennell, Tony, John, Rennell

Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship

By Frances Woodsford