Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (Kodansha International, 1974).
8. The Kamikaze Pilot Who Survived
Allred, Gordon T., & Kuwahara, Yasuo, Kamikaze: A Japanese Pilotâs Own Spectacular Story of the Famous Suicide Squadrons (Ballantine, 1956).
Hamazono, Shigeyoshi, entry on World War II Database: http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=310
McCurry, Justin, âWe were ready to die for Japanâ, Guardian , 2006: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/28/worlddispatch.secondworldwar
9. Surviving Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Yamaguchi, Tsutomu, Matsuo, Mari, Sakaoka, Naomi & Brown, Anthony, âDouble A-Bomb Victim: My Life beneath the Atomic Clouds, 2013â: http://hdl.handle.net/10069/33740
McCurry, Justin, âA Little Deaf in One Ear: Meet the Japanese Man who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasakiâ, Guardian , 2009: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/25/hiroshima-nagasaki-survivor-japan
McNeill, David, âHow I Survived Hiroshima and then Nagasakiâ, Independent , 2009: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/how-i-survived-hiroshima-ndash-and-then-nagasaki-1654294.html
10. Agatha Christieâs Greatest Mystery
Christie, Agatha, Official Site: http://www.agathachristie.com/
Morgan, Janet P., Agatha Christie: A Biography (Collins, 1984).
Norman, Andrew, Agatha Christie: The Unfinished Portrait (History Press, 2007).
Thompson, Laura, Agatha Christie: An English Mystery (Headline, 1997).
11. Dressed to Kill
Dorothy Lawrence, Sapper Dorothy Lawrence: The Only English Woman Soldier, Late Royal Engineers 51st Division 179th Tunnelling Company BEF (Bodley Head, 1919) .
12. Mission into Danger
Halberstam, Yitta & Leventhal, Judith, Small Miracles of the Holocaust (Lyons Press, 2008).
Lukas, Richard, Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation (University Press of Kansas, 2004).
Mieszkowska, Anna, Irena Sendler, Mother of the Children of the Holocaust (Praeger, 2010).
PBS documentary about Irena Sendler: http://www.pbs.org/program/irena-sendler/
13. The Real War Horse
Seeley, Jack, My Horse Warrior (Hodder & Stoughton, 1934).
Seeley, Jack, Warrior: The Amazing Story of a Real War Horse (with an introduction by Jack Seeleyâs grandson) (Racing Post Books, 2013).
Warrior: A Real War Horse: http://www.warriorwarhorse.com/
14. Pigeon to the Rescue
Cothren, Marion, Cher Ami: The Story of a Carrier Pigeon (Little, Brown & Co, 1934).
Laplander, Robert, J., Finding the Lost Battalion, Beyond the Rumors, Myths and Legends of Americaâs Famous WWI Epic (Lulu, 2007).
Smithsonian website: http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmah/cherami.htm
15. Barking for Victory
Bausum, Anne & Sharpe, David E., âSergeant Stubby: How a Stray Dog and His Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nationâ, National Geographic , 2014.
Connecticut Military Department: Stubby the Military Dog : http://www.ct.gov/mil/cwp/view.asp?a=1351&q=257892
Smithsonian website: http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=519
16. Angel of Death
Rose, Lionel, The Massacre of the Innocents (Routledge, 1986).
Vale, Allison & Rattle, Alison, Amelia Dyer: Angel Maker (Andre Deutsch, 2007).
17. Who Killed Rasputin?
Cook, Andrew, To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin (History Press, 2007).
Milton, Giles, Russian Roulette (Sceptre, 2013).
Nelipa, Margarita, The Murder of Grigorii Rasputin: A Conspiracy That Brought Down the Russian Empire (Gilbert Books, 2010).
Smith, Michael, Six (Biteback, 2010).
Yusupov, Felix, Lost Splendour: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin (Jonathan Cape, 1953).
18. Till Death Us Do Part
Walsh, Cecil, The Agra Double Murder (Ernest Benn, 1929).
Whittington-Egan, Molly, Khaki Mischief: The Agra Murder Case (Souvenir Press, 1990).
19. By Balloon to the North Pole
PRISM (Polar Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements), âThe Mystery of Andréeâ, an archive of American newspaper articles 1896â99,
Stacey Kennedy
Jane Glatt
Ashley Hunter
Micahel Powers
David Niall Wilson
Stephen Coonts
J.S. Wayne
Clive James
Christine DePetrillo
F. Paul Wilson