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Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler

by Tim Bouverie

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Our most recommended books

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Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher Browning

Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
by Anna Reid

A Woman in Berlin
by Anonymous

First Light
by Geoffrey Wellum

Life’s Too Short to Cry
by Tim Vigors