Please note that this list of books only depicts a small number of things that occurred in the lead up and during the second world war. We will endeavour to add things to this when they are relevant to the story
The Secret Agent’s Pocket Manual 1939 - 1945; Stephen Bull
The SAS pocket manual 1941 - 1945; Christopher Westhorp
MI6 Spy Skills for Civilians; Red Riley
Between Silk and Cyanide; Leo Marks
Behind the Enigma; John Ferris
MI6; Stephen Dorril
The secret history of MI6; Keith Jeffery
The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park; Dermot Turing
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park; Sinclair McKay
GCHQ; Richard J Aldrich
Bletchley Park Brain Teasers; Sinclair McKay
The London Cage; Helen Fry
Ian Fleming’s Commandos; Nicholas Rankin
Churchill’s Desert Rats; Patrick Delaforce
The Defence of the Realm – The authorized History of MI5; Christopher Andrew
The Secret World - A History of Intelligence; Christopher Andrew
Churchill’s Wizards; Nicholas Rankin
The Secrets of Station X; Michael Smith
The Secret War; Brian Johnson
Operation Mincemeat; Ben Mcintyre
Dunkirk; Sean Longden
SAS and Elite Forces; Jon E Lewis
Spies; Colin, Damon and Rowan Wilson
War Heroes; Giles O’Brien
The Black Door; Richard J Aldrich and Rory Cormac
SAS Shadow Raiders; Damien Lewis
Intercept; Gordon Corera
Portrait of Churchill; Guy Eden
Para-military training in Scotland During World War 2; David M Harrison
Arisaig and the Special Operations Executive;The Arisaig Land, Sea and Islands Centre
The Women who lived for danger; Marcus Binney
Behind Enemy Lines;Russell Miller
She landed by Moonlight; Carole Seymour-Jones
SOE Manual; The National Archives
All-in fighting; W E Fairbairn
Hands Off – Self-Defense for Women; W E Fairbairn
Get Tough; W E Fairbairn
Churchills Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare; Giles Milton
How to become a spy; British SOE
No Cloak, No Dagger; Benjamin Cowburn
SOE and the Resistance; The Times, Michael Tillotson
The last escape; John Nichol and Tony Rennnell
The Third Reich is listening; Christian Jennings
The Third Reich’s Intelligence Services; Katrin Paehler
Gestapo; Frank McDonough
Hitlers Spy Chief; Richard Bassett
The Devils Disciples; Anthony Read
World War II; Dear Foot
Who’s Who in Nazi Germay; Robert S Wistrich
Munich and National Socialism; C H Beck
The Plots kill Hitler; Richard Dargie
The Third Reich at War; Mihael Veranov
The Nazi’s and the Occult; Paul Roland
Hess, Hitler and Churchill; Peter Padfield
The truth about Rudolf Hess; James Douglas-Hamilton
The German Opposition to Hitler; Michael Thomsett
An honourable defeat; Anton Gill
Magda; Meike Ziervogel
Nazi Wives; James Wyllie
The Female Few; Jacky Hyams
Extraordinary Women in History; Leah Gail
Her Finest Hour; Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell
Odette; World War Two’s Darling Spy Penny Starns
Going with the Boys; Judith Mackrell
The Unwomanly Face of War; Svetlana Alexievich
Voices from the Holocaust; Jon E Lewis
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp; Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
The Dachau concentration Camp, 1933 to 1945; Dachau Camp
Ravensbrück ; Jack G Morrison
How Spies Think; David Omand
How to fly a plane; Captain Barber RFC
A dictionary of RAF Slang; Eric Partridge
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang; Oxford
The Choice|; Edith Eger
Agent Patterson SOE; Ernest Van Maurik
Goebbels on the Jews; Goebbels
My Struggle; A Hitler
Hess; Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel
The Work I did; Brunhilde Pomsel
A delayed life; Dita Kraus
The Diary of Anne Frank; Anne Frank
The Dodger; Tim Carroll
Gone to Ground; Marie Jalowicz
The Librarian of Auschwitz; Antonio Iturbe
The Volunteer; Jack Fairweather
The Hurricane Girls; Jo Wheeler
The Tattoo Artist of Auschwitz; Heather Morris
What did you do in the war Sister?; Dennis J Turner
Alone in Berlin; Hans Fallada
Courtney’s War; Wilbur Smith
Orders from Berlin; Simon Tolkien
Munich; Robert Harris
Berlin Calling; Kelly Durham
The Girl who fell from the sky; Simon Mawer
A Hero in France; Alan Furst
Huntress; Kate Quinn
Charlotte Gray; Sebastian Faulks
Enigma; Robert Harris
The Night Watch; Sarah Waters
Stalingrad; Antony Beevor
We fought for Ardnish; Angus MacDonald
City of Spies; Mara Timon
The Secret Messenger; Mandy Robotham
Hearts of Resistance;Soraya M Lane
The Pale House; Luke McCallin
The Nine; Gwen Strauss
The Good German; Josef Kanon
The Photographer; Meike Ziervogel
The Spy Game; Georgina Harding
The Polish Officer; Alan Furst
The Interrogator; Andrew Williams
All the light we cannot see; AnthonyDoer
The Children of Freedom; Marc Levy
The Book Thief; Markus Zusak
Kommandant’s Girl; Pam Jenoff
Spy; Danielle Steele
The Undertaking; Audrey Magee
Wartime at Woolworths; Elaine Everest
As Time Goes By; Annie Groves
The Night Watch; Sarah Waters
The Anatomy of Writing; John Turby
Agent Patterson SOE; Ernest Van Maurik
Writers and Artists Yearbook; Author
A dictionary of Modern English Usage; Oxford - Fowler
Dictionary of quotations; Bloomsbury
The Writers Handbook – Guide to Crime Writing; Barry Turner
Guide to Self-publishing; Writers and Artists
Guide to How to Hook an Agent; James Rennoldson
Guide to getting published; Alysoun Owen
Storycraft; Jack Hart
Dynamic Characters; Nancy Kress
From Pitch to publication; Carole Blake
DVD - Documentary
Now it can be told |Secret War Collection | Nazi Collaborators | D-Day the Last Heroes | Nazis A warning from history | 100 years of the RAF
DVD - Based on a true story
13 Minutes | Schindler’s List | Imitation Game | Enigma | The Counterfeiters | A call to spy | Adolf Eichmann | Anthropoid | Churchill | Hackshaw Ridge | The Resistance | Darkest Hour | Dunkirk | Alone in Berlin | Monuments Men | Operation Mincemeat | Escape from Sobidor
DVD - Fictional
The Pianist | Sophie’s Choice | Black Book | Labyrinth of Lies | The Resistance fighter | Jojo Rabbit | Their Finest | The Bird catcher | Defiance | The Exception | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Saving Private Ryan | The Book thief