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

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

Michael Arditti

The Medea of the Reich With the Ice-Cold Eyes

Madga Goebbels

By Anja Klabunde

Max Egremont

The Cold Cruelty of the German Army

Berlin: The Downfall 1945

By Antony Beevor

Peter Novick

For Meditating About

The Holocaust In Collective Memory

By Mark Mazower

Jonathan Keates

Fronte Femminile

A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

By Caroline Moorehead

Anna Reid

Feeding the Eight Million

The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine

By Douglas Smith

Keith Lowe

Low-flying Legends

Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

By Max Hastings

Patrick Scrivenor

Courage under Fire

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

By Lynne Olson

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall

By Sonia Purnell

The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

By Jack Fairweather