Adam Zamoyski

The World Ablaze

Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War 1931–1945

By Richard Overy

Timothy W Ryback

Escape from Ploiesti

The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

By Frances Stonor Saunders

Richard Overy

Refugees into Royal Marines

X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis

By Leah Garrett

Julia Neuberger

An Act of Self-Denial

How to Be a Refugee: One Family’s Story of Exile and Belonging

By Simon May

Richard Overy

Wicked Uncle Joe

Stalin’s War

By Sean McMeekin

Caroline Moorehead

French Connections

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

By Patrick Marnham

Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE

By Kate Vigurs

Keith Lowe

The Unauthorised Version

Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War – 1938–1941

By Alan Allport

Malcolm Murfett

Leaping into the Abyss

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War – July 1937–May 1942

By Richard B Frank

Allan Massie

A Class Act

A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Rée, British Agent in the French Resistance

By Jonathan Rée (ed)

Donald Rayfield

Hitler’s More Willing Executioners

Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust

By Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff

R J B Bosworth

Duce Vita

Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935–1943

By John Gooch

Malcolm Murfett

Isle of the Dead

Crucible of Hell: Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of the Second World War

By Saul David

Karina Urbach

Delusions of a Dictator

Hitler: Downfall 1939–45

By Volker Ullrich (Translated from German by Jefferson Chase)

Toby Buchan

Trouble Is, It’s True

Norway 1940

By François Kersaudy

Keith Lowe

Guns & Condoms

Britain’s War: A New World, 1942–1947

By Daniel Todman