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Favourite wartime autos and bios
Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942 (Bloomsbury Group)Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942 (Bloomsbury Group) by Joyce Dennys
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £2.00
A mocking look at war's absurdities
Don't Forget to Write: The True Story of an Evacuee and Her FamilyDon't Forget to Write: The True Story of an Evacuee and Her Family by Pam Hobbs
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.94
Wartime evacuee experience written with humour and intelligence
Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime ChildhoodKisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood by Terence Frisby
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Touching memoir of a WW2 evacuee
Never Surrender: Lost Voices of a Generation at WarNever Surrender: Lost Voices of a Generation at War by Robert Kershaw
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £2.55
Authentic voices of the ordinary heroes of WW2
Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western FrontElsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front by Diane Atkinson
Buy new: £12.49 / Used from: £9.00
Extraordinary personal stories of WW1
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings
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Sir Max Hastings at his best on Churchill
The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the TrenchesThe Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches by Harry Patch
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The life of Harry Patch, WW1 vet
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young BozA Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boz by Thomas Buergenthal
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Moving memoir of surviving Auschwitz
The Next Moon: The Remarkable True Story of a British Agent Behind the Lines in Wartime FranceThe Next Moon: The Remarkable True Story of a British Agent Behind the Lines in Wartime France by Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £1.38
An agent behind the lines in wartime France
Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great WarKitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War by Henry Allingham
Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £3.03
The oldest surviving vet of WW1
Dambusters: A Landmark Oral HistoryDambusters: A Landmark Oral History by Max Arthur
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Powerful account of WW2 Dambusters
We are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary TimesWe are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Simon Garfield
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Diary of ordinary folk caught up in war
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable  Diaries of Postwar BritainOur Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield
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Fascinating diaries of postwar Britain
Betty's Wartime Diary 1939-1945Betty's Wartime Diary 1939-1945 by Betty Armitage
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Touching observations of war from small-town perspective
Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World WarStranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War by Julie Summers
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Powerful social insight
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Trustees of the Mass Observation Archives
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Exactly what it says on the tin
Our Longest Days: A people's history of the Second World WarOur Longest Days: A people's history of the Second World War by Sandra Koa Wing
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Valuable, demotic account of WW2