About the bundle: Heywood Hill remembers V-E Day with a selection of some of the finest non-fiction writing published this month in commemoration of the event. 

The human experience of the war is documented in two books, one of an archival project conducted by the BBC in the late twentieth century to document memories of living through the war, the other bestselling historian Max Hasting's account of the hopes, dreams and fears of the young soldiers he was able to research from the Normandy landings, and just how hard it was to get such terrified men to fight. 

The end of the war is detailed by Tim Bouverie in Allies at War, which breaks down the diplomacy of the war and the difficult relationships held by the Allied leaders, while James Holland and Al Murray present victory in the Second World War as more complicated than just V-E and V-J day, instead breaking down a series of battles that led the Axis Powers to fall like dominoes. 

Finally, the fallout of the end of the war is examined in Phil Craig's 1945: The Reckoning, where he looks at the settlements made in empires across the world after the second world war and looks at its impact on the borders and politics of today's world.