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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Incoming Resources
- The last escaper, by Peter Tunstall
- Britain's wartime evacuees, the people, places and stories of the evacuations told through the accounts of those who were there, Gillian Mawson
- Confessions of a special agent, wartime service in the small scale raiding force and SOE, Ernest Dudley
- The wizard war, British scientific intelligence, 1939-1945, R. V. Jones
- Little resistance, a teenage English girl's adventures in occupied France, Antonia Hunt
- The 21 escapes of Lt. Alastair Cram, a compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War, David M. Guss
- A soldier in Bedfordshire, 1941-1942, the diary of Private Denis Argent, Royal Engineers, edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson
- These men are dangerous, the Special Air Service at war, by D.I. Harrison
- Escape and liberation, 1940-45, Alfred John Evans ; with a new introduction by Colin A. Pateman
- Eclipse
- Letters from the few, unique memories from the Battle of Britain, Dilip Sarkar MBE
- He who dares, recollections of service in the SAS, SBS, and MI5, by David Sutherland ; with a foreword by Lord Jellicoe
- Churchill's colonel, the war diaries of Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Barne, edited by Anthony Barne
- Evader, Denys Teare
- Adolf Hitler; my part in his downfall, [by] Spike Milligan
- To the Kwai and back, war drawings, 1939-1945, Ronald Searle
- Testament of experience;, an autobiographical story of the years 1925-1950
- The last enemy, Richard Hillary ; [foreword by Ernest K. Gann]
- Places of greater safety, Hilda Hollingsworth ; afterword by Wendy Ann Logsdon
- The Second World War through soldiers' eyes, British Army life 1939-1945, James Goulty
- The forgotten highlander, an incredible WWII story of survival in the Pacific, Alistair Urquart
- Going solo, Roald Dahl
- Their finest hour,, first-hand narratives of the war in England,, edited by Allan A. Michie and Walter Graebner
- Strictly personal
- Be not fearful
- The secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish, my life in Churchill's school for spies, Noreen Riols
- The years between,, diaries 1939-44, [by] Cecil Beaton
- Dunkirk, the history behind the major motion picture, Joshua Levine
- The Man Who Never Was, World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation
- The war on land: the British Army in World War II;, an anthology of personal experience, selected and edited by Ronald Lewin. With an introd. by Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- A-20 Havoc at war, [compiled by William N. Hess]
- Between silk and cyanide, a codemaker's war, 1941-1945, Leo Marks
- SAS with the Maquis, in action with the French Resistance, June-September 1944, Ian Wellsted ; preface by J. Fraser McLuskey
- The march to Tunis:, the North African War, 1940-1943,, by Alan Moorehead. With a foreword by Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery. Foreword to the 1st ed. by Field-Marshal Viscount Wavell
- The desert my dwelling place, by David Lloyd Owen ; with a foreword by Sir Gerald Templer ; with a map and eight pages of half-tone illustrations
- Telling tales, the fabulous lives of Anita Leslie, Penny Perrick
- The odds against us, Peter Townsend
- The Fortress;, a diary of Anzio & after
- The jungle is neutral, F. Spencer Chapman
- Dresden, a survivor's story, February 1945, Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud
- East is West
- The oaken heart, by Margery Allingham
- A red square, the autobiography of an unconventional revolutionary, [by] William Ash
- The great escape., Introd. by George Harsh
- Train to nowhere, one woman's war, ambulance driver, reporter, liberator, by Anita Leslie
- Torpedoed, the true story of the World War II sinking of "The Children's Ship", Deborah Heiligman
- Wartime memories, a collection of personal memories of the Second World War, edited by Doris E. Pullen
- Providence their guide, a personal account of the Long Range Desert Group, 1940-45, D.L. Lloyd Owen ; with a foreword by Sir John Hackett
- Guests of the Third Reich, Anthony Richards
- The Venlo incident, a true story of double-dealing, captivity, and a murderous Nazi plot, S. Payne Best ; introduction by Nigel Jones
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