World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British
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World War, 1939-1945
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- The Years Between;, diaries 1939-44, Cecil Beaton
- To end all wars, a true story about the will to survive and the courage to forgive, Ernest Gordon
- The Sea Is My Grave, John L.D. Barnett
- Battle tales from Burma
- The wooden horse, the classic World War II story of escape
- Dunkirk, the history behind the major motion picture, Joshua Levine
- By the skin of my teeth, flying RAF Spitfires and Mustangs in World War II and USAF Sabre jets in the Korean War, Colin Walker Downes
- Prisoner of the Gestapo, a memoir of survival and captivity in wartime Poland, Tom Firth
- RAF Liberator over the Eastern Front, a bomb aimer's Second World War and Cold War story
- The Second World War through soldiers' eyes, British Army life 1939-1945, James Goulty
- Undercover operator, wartime experiences with SOE in France and the Far East
- Secret Spitfires, Britain's hidden civilian army, Howman and Cetintas with Gavin Clarke
- Escape to Pagan, Brian Devereux
- Growing up in 1940s war-torn England, Joyce Holgate DeMille
- Prisoner of the rising sun
- The Alexander memoirs, 1940-1945
- Mist on the rice-fields, a soldier's story of the Burma Campaign and the Korean War
- Saturday at M.I.9, the classic account of the WW2 Allied escape organisation, Airey Neave
- Soldier at bomber command
- Air war D-Day, Martin W. Bowman
- With Recce at Arnhem, the recollections of Trooper Des Evans - a 1st Airborne Division Veteran, Mike Gallagher
- This is War!, the Diaries and Journalism of Anthony Cotterell, 1940-1944
- Guests of the Third Reich, Anthony Richards
- Alms for oblivion, <wartime experiences in Siam and Indonesia.>
- Diary of a red devil, by Glider to Arnhem with the 7th King's Own Scottish Borderers
- Once a Hussar, a memoir of battle, capture and escape in World War II, Ray Ellis
- Mary Churchill's War, The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
- BLETCHLEY PARK CODEBREAKERS IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- The Man Who Never Was, World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation
- Darling Monster, the letters of Lady Diana Cooper to son John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952, Diana Cooper ; edited by John Julius Norwich
- A clear premonition, the letters of Lt. Tim Lloyd to his mother : Italy and North Africa 1943-4
- Luck on my side, the diaries and reflections of a young wartime sailor, 1939-45
- Fear in the sky, vivid memories of operational aircrew in World War Two
- The night air war, Martin W. Bowman
- Without tradition, 2 Para, 1941-1945, Robert Peatling
- Return via Rangoon, a young Chindit survives the jungle and Japanese captivity
- Saturday at M.I.9, a history of underground escape lines in North-West Europe in 1940-5 by a leading organiser at M.I.9, Airey Neave
- Blitz diary, life under fire in World War II, Carol Harris
- A schoolboy's wartime letters, an evacuee's life in WWII - a personal memoir, Geoffrey Iley
- DEATH AND DEPRIVATION ON THE FORGOTTEN SUMATRA RAILWAY, a prisoner's story
- Johnnie Johnson's 1942 diary
- Bletchley Park's Secret Source, Churchill's Wrens and the Y Service in World War II, Peter Hore
- Private battles, how the war almost defeated us, [compiled by] Simon Garfield
- Between silk and cyanide, a codemaker's war, 1941-1945, Leo Marks
- Six weeks of Blenheim Summer, an RAF officer's memoir of the Battle of France 1940, Alastair Dyson Panton and Victoria Panton Bacon
- Killing the Bismarck, destroying the pride of Hitler's fleet, Iain Ballantyne
- Dunkirk, the history behind the major motion picture, Joshua Levine
- Tunnelling to freedom, John Fancy
- Brotherhood of the skies, wartime experiences of a gunner officer and typhoon pilot, David Ince, DFC
- Dunkirk, the history behind the major motion picture, Joshua Levine
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