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The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

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Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
We Germans

We Germans

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Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
Of Love and Other Wars

Of Love and Other Wars

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Author: Sophie Hardach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 385 The story of a Quaker family and a Jewish family in love and at war during WWII. London, 1939...
Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 (2): Papal States, Minor States & Volunteers

Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 (2): Papal States, Minor States & Volunteers

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Author: Gabriele Esposito Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the...
The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead

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Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

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Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
The Daughters Of Mars

The Daughters Of Mars

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 In the tradition of Atonement and Birdsong, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
Birdsong

Birdsong

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Author: Sebastian Faulks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling WWI classic now reissued in the new Faulks series style Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love...
Innocence: two novellas

Innocence: two novellas

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Author: Frank White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 Hodder published Frank White's There Was A Time, surely the last novel about the Second World War to be...
Island Song

Island Song

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
Commandant Of Auschwitz Commandant Of Auschwitz

Commandant Of Auschwitz Commandant Of Auschwitz

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Author: Rudolf Hoess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis...
Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

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Author: Martha MacCallum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World...
The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light

The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light

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Author: Jean Edward Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the "rousing" (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the...
Band of Eagles: A thrilling tale of fighter pilots in World War Two

Band of Eagles: A thrilling tale of fighter pilots in World War Two

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Author: Frank Barnard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Continuing the brilliant World War Two fighter pilot series - this time the theatre of war is the incredible...
There Was a Time

There Was a Time

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Author: Frank White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A Lincolnshire village on a glorious summer's morning in 1940. Following Dunkirk, the fate of the whole war will...
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow

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Author: Paul Willetts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 RENDEZVOUS AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOMS provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading...
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare

'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare

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Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare - published as the film...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

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Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

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Author: Matthew Sweet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan...
Kyiv

Kyiv

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Author: Graham Hurley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War. 'Historical fiction of a...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

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Author: Paul Ham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle,...
Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany

Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany

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Author: Sebastian Haffner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty...
The Other Hoffmann Sister

The Other Hoffmann Sister

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Author: Ben Fergusson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring of...
The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit

The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit

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Author: Josh Ireland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut' Damien Lewis Playboy....
V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

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Author: Robert Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The no. 1 bestselling author of MUNICH and THE SECOND SLEEP returns to the Second World War for his...
The Bitter Road to Freedom, a New History of the Liberation of Europe

The Bitter Road to Freedom, a New History of the Liberation of Europe

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Author, MR William I Hitchcock (University of Virginia) Format, Microfilm Number of Pages, 454 American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from...
Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943

Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on this...
Land of the Living

Land of the Living

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Author: Georgina Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A profound masterpiece on war, loss and survival, rendered in prose of rhythmic precision, subtlety and exceptional sensitivity, by...
The Eyes of Asia

The Eyes of Asia

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Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Kipling's The Eyes of Asia takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of Ik8 of the British Secret Service

Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of Ik8 of the British Secret Service

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Author: George Alexander Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The latest in Biteback's best-selling Dialogue Espionage Classics series of rediscovered spy masterpieces, Go Spy the Land is George Alexander...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

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Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right...
The Fourth Shore

The Fourth Shore

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Author: Virginia Baily Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Liliana's beloved husband has been dead six months when she finds a roll of banknotes in a drawer with...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

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Author: Helen Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human...