Remembrance Day Selection On the 11th of November we pay tribute to the men and women who served to defend our democratic freedoms and way of life. Uniting across faiths, cultures and backgrounds to remember the service and sacrifice of the Armed Forces community from Britain and the Commonwealth.

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Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney Three Days at the Brink eAudiobook & eBook A gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II; the now-forgotten 1943 .

Antony Beevor

Ardennes 1944 eAudiobook & eBook The story of Hitler's ill-fated final stand.

Antony Beevor

Arnhem eAudiobook & eBook The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944.

Antony Beevor eAudiobook & eBook The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.

Antony Beevor D-Day eAudiobook & eBook The that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. Antony Beevor & Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 eAudiobook & eBook Post liberation Paris – an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions.

Antony Beevor eAudiobook & eBook The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front.

Tim Bouverie Appeasing Hitler eAudiobook & eBook A timeless lesson on the challenges of standing up to aggression and authoritarianism – and the calamity that results from failing to do so.

Christopher R Browning Ordinary Men eAudiobook The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. Eddy de Wind Last Stop Auschwitz eAudiobook An extraordinary account of life as a prisoner, a near real-time record of the daily struggle to survive.

Jeremy Dronfield eAudiobook The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. Geoff Dyer

The Missing of the Somme eAudiobook & eBook Part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance.

Christopher Edmonds & Douglas Century No Surrender eAudiobook & eBook The story of an ordinary soldier's extraordinary courage in the face of evil.

Niall Ferguson

The War of the World eAudiobook The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. What went wrong?

Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl eAudiobook & eBook One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II.

Viktor E Frankl Man's Search For Meaning eAudiobook & eBook A moving account of Viktor Frankl's experiences in Auschwitz and what we can learn from them. Viktor E Frankl

Yes to Life in Spite of Everything eAudiobook Despite the unspeakable horrors in the camp, Frankl learnt from his fellow inmates that it is always possible to say ‘yes to life’ – a profound and timeless lesson for us all.

Doug Gold

The Note Through the Wire eAudiobook In the heart of Nazi-occupied , two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter.

David M Guss

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram eAudiobook & eBook The story of the British soldier who escaped from prisoner-of-war camps not once, but more than twenty times.

Robert Harris Selling Hitler eAudiobook The story of the .

Andrew Hodges Alan Turing eAudiobook & eBook The full story behind the persecuted genius of wartime code breaking and the computer revolution.

Deborah Hopkinson

D-Day eAudiobook Weaves together the contributions of not only D-Day's famous players, but African Americans, women, journalists, and service members in a masterful tapestry to bring this decisive battle to vivid, thrilling life. Graham Hoyland

Merlin eAudiobook & eBook The extraordinary story of the development of the Rolls-Royce engine that would stop Hitler from invading Britain and carry the war to the very heart of Germany.

Jacky Hyams Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army eAudiobook They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories.

Julian Jackson A Certain Idea of France eAudiobook & eBook The full story behind the persecuted genius of wartime code breaking and the computer revolution.

Mark Jones & Sarah Kilgarriff First World War: The Complete Collection eAudiobook A unique collection of authentic eyewitness accounts chronicling the events of the First World War from Sarajevo to the Armistice.

Dita Kraus A Delayed Life eAudiobook & eBook The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz.

Otto B Kraus The Children's Block eAudiobook Alex Ehren is a poet, a prisoner and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the children’s block. Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Women With Silver Wings eAudiobook & eBook The inspiring true story of the women air force service pilots of World War II.

Mary M Lane

Hitler's Last Hostages eAudiobook Looted art and the soul of the Third Reich.

Erik Larson The Splendid and the Vile eAudiobook & eBook A startlingly fresh portrait of Winston Churchill and during the Blitz.

Nick Lloyd

Passchendaele eAudiobook & eBook Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned – and many of the bodies were never found.

Larry Loftis Code Name: Lise eAudiobook The true story of the spy who became WWII's most highly decorated woman.

Ben Macintyre

The Spy and the Traitor eAudiobook & eBook A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians. Sinclair McKay

Dresden eAudiobook & eBook McKay uses never-before-seen sources to relate the untold stories of civilians and vividly conveys the texture of contemporary life.

Ian McPhedran Where Soldiers Lie eBook Investigators and scientists locate and identify unrecovered war casualties to unlock their secrets.

Roger Moorhouse

First to Fight eAudiobook & eBook The Polish campaign is the forgotten story of the Second World War.

Svenja O’Donnell

Inge's War eAudiobook & eBook A story of family, secrets and survival under Hitler.

Alastair Panton Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer eAudiobook & eBook One of the most moving, vivid and powerful accounts of war in the air ever written.

Jeremy Paxman Great Britain's Great War eAudiobook & eBook The entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people. eAudiobook This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen?

Andrew Roberts Churchill eAudiobook & eBook A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historians.

Andrew Roberts

Leadership in War eAudiobook & eBook An insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, , Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Margaret Thatcher.

Ronald C Rosbottom

Sudden Courage eAudiobook & eBook The incredible story of the youngest members of the French Resistance.

Justus Rosenberg The Art of Resistance eAudiobook & eBook An epic saga of survival and an uplifting story of personal triumph.

Colin Rushton

The Saboteur of Auschwitz eAudiobook & eBook The inspiring true story of a British soldier held prisoner in Auschwitz. Esther Safran Foer I Want You to Know We’re Still Here eAudiobook & eBook A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory.

Ian Sayer & Jeremy Dronfield

Hitler's Last Plot eAudiobook How the SS rounded up the Nazis' most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War II.

Daniel Schönpflug A World on Edge eAudiobook & eBook The internationally bestselling account of the transformative period that followed the Armistice in November 1918.

Nicholas Shakespeare

Six Minutes in May eAudiobook & eBook A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds.

William L Shirer End of a Berlin Diary eAudiobook Chronicles a year-long study of Germany after Hitler.

Leon Silver

The Miracle Typist eAudiobook & eBook A heart-breaking true story of love, loss and survival against all odds during the Second World War. Brendan Simms

Hitler eAudiobook & eBook A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler.

Bart van Es

The Cut Out Girl eAudiobook & eBook The enthralling story of a man's search for the truth about his family's past.

Alexander Watson

The Fortress eAudiobook & eBook A gripping history of the First World War's longest and most terrible siege. ADULT FICTION

Joseph Heller Catch-22 eBook Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy.

Affinity Konar

Mischling eBook An astonishing, bold imagining of Auschwitz and those small moments of hope and beauty that light the dark.

Lana Kortchik Sisters of War eAudiobook & eBook A sweeping tale of love, loss, and the power of hope set in Kiev during the Second World War.

Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front eAudiobook & eBook The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is Illuminated eAudiobook A young man arrives in the , searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. W G Sebald Austerlitz eBook A haunting novel of post-war Europe.

Markus Zusak

The Book Thief eBook 1939. . The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.

YOUNGER FICTION

Lucy Adlington The Red Ribbon eAudiobook & eBook Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.

Morris Gleitzman Once eBook Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Once I made a Nazi with toothache laugh. My name is Felix. This is my story. Anne Holm I Am David eAudiobook David escapes from a concentration camp and flees across Europe. Who is David and what is the terrible past that drives him on to travel alone?

Lois Lowry

Number the Stars eBook In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate.

Michael Morpurgo Morpurgo War Stories eAudiobook & eBook Six best-loved novels on the theme of war by the nation’s favourite storyteller.

Michael Morpurgo (Editor)

Only Remembered eBook A timeless and seminal anthology of First World War literature for children.

Michael Morpurgo Private Peaceful eAudiobook & eBook A compelling love story and a deeply moving account of the First World War.

Michael Morpurgo Waiting for Anya eAudiobook Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village. Tom Palmer After the War eBook Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District.

Tom Palmer

Armistice Runner eBook Lily has lots of worries. But then she discovers her great-great- grandfather's diaries from the First World War.

Tom Palmer Over the Line eBook Bestselling novel based on the true story of WWI war hero and footballing legend Jack Cock.

Ian Serraillier

The Silver Sword eAudiobook & eBook The classic tale of a journey through war-torn Europe.

Elizabeth Wein

Code Name Verity eBook World War II thriller in which two young girls, one a Resistance spy and the other a transport pilot, become unlikely best friends.

Elizabeth Wein

The Pearl Thief eBook This beautiful and evocative novel is the story of the irrepressible and unforgettable Julie, set in the year before the Second World War and the events of Code Name Verity.