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After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister

After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister

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Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection...
With Britain in Mortal Danger: Britain's Secret Army

With Britain in Mortal Danger: Britain's Secret Army

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In 1938 the War Office ordered the Director of Military Intelligence to create a unit that would research the tactics and organisation needed in the event of an invasion. After...
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had...
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

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Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is:...
The Times Second World War: The history of the global conflict from

The Times Second World War: The history of the global conflict from

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The perfect gift for history fans. Follow the conflict of World War 2 from 1939 to 1945 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary and photographs. Published in...
Undercover Tales of World War II

Undercover Tales of World War II

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Over 70 behind-the-scenes tales of bribery, sabotage, and other clandestine operations from the Second World WarThe chronicles of World War II are filled with exotic tales of espionage, mysterious kidnappings,...
War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties

War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties

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World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor:

Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor:

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Traitor King , by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with...
Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942

Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942

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Men at War takes an intimate look at the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, which was formed in Victoria in 1940 as Australia entered the Second World War. In 1941 and...
Abandoned?

Abandoned?

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The book titled Abandoned? by the author Don Wall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Stopping Hitler: An Official Account of How Britain Planned to Defend

Stopping Hitler: An Official Account of How Britain Planned to Defend

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After the unprecedented death and devastation of the First World War, few people imagined that such a conflict could ever happen again. Though the belief that it had been the...
Lancasters at War: Bomber Command Operations from RAF Grimsby

Lancasters at War: Bomber Command Operations from RAF Grimsby

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By the last year of the Second World War, the RAF's Bomber Command had become a devastating military force. The peak of its operations came in March 1945 when the...
Corsair: Vought's F4U in World War II and Korea

Corsair: Vought's F4U in World War II and Korea

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The F4U Corsair, designed by Vought and produced by that firm, as well as, Goodyear and Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, would not only rack up an impressive 11:1 kill ratio against...
Panther German Army Medium Tank: Italian Front, 1944-1945

Panther German Army Medium Tank: Italian Front, 1944-1945

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The Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland had been met with tenacious resistance by the Germans but the defence consisted for the most part of armoured units that...
D-Day 1944: The Making of Victory

D-Day 1944: The Making of Victory

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Two years earlier the Dieppe Raid had ended in disaster despite their meticulous planning the Allies feared Operation Overlord might go the same way. Instead D-Day proved an incredible success;...
Indignity: A Life Reimagined

Indignity: A Life Reimagined

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The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother,...
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp

If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp

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Ravensbruck Concentration Camp is the worst atrocity ever committed solely against women, but today the name of the camp is barely known. From Ravensbruck's earliest days, when Himmler offered his...
Preempting the Holocaust

Preempting the Holocaust

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Lawrence L. Langer, perhaps the most important literary critic of the Holocaust, here explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors he examines...
Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation

Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation

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The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child...
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "superb [and] intensely readable" ( The Washington Post ) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary...
The Death of Hitler: The Final Word

The Death of Hitler: The Final Word

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On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth...
Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for

Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for

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While the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg has been at the centre of scholarly attention, the Tokyo Tribunal has for decades been largely neglected. This is surprising insofar as this...
Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the

Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the

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Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

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A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" ( Wall Street Journal ) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own...
A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French

A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French

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The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism...
The Music Maker: One POW provided hope for thousands

The Music Maker: One POW provided hope for thousands

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On May 8 1945, forty-six-year-old Drum Major Jackson staggered towards his American liberators. Emaciated, dressed in rags, his decayed boots held together with string, he'd been force-marched for twenty days...
When Men & Mountains Meet Paperback: Like the desire for drink or

When Men & Mountains Meet Paperback: Like the desire for drink or

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We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of...
They Were Never Told: Tragedy of HMS "Dasher"

They Were Never Told: Tragedy of HMS "Dasher"

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Containing material never before seen They W ere Never Told includes original statements from those caugh t up in the disaster, a full examination of the Board of Enq uiry''s...
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945

Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945

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A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark...
Hitler's Hangmen: The Plot to Kill Churchill

Hitler's Hangmen: The Plot to Kill Churchill

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Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War, there were a number of sizable Fascist groups active in Britain, all of whom were working towards a violent uprising...
The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews

The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews

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It has long been claimed that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Did they deny refuge to those fleeing Hitler's death machine? Why did they fail...
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the

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A handsome gift edition of one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from World War 2- Viktor Frankl's moving account of his experiences in Auschwitz. With new introduction...
After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust

After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust

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Sixty years after the Holocaust, the author of Lost in Translation explores the difficult process of preserving an authentic version of its tragic events. As the Holocaust recedes in time,...
Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler

Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler

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Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler.From 1933, these...
Genocide Perspectives VI: The Process and the Personal Cost of

Genocide Perspectives VI: The Process and the Personal Cost of

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Genocide Perspectives VI grapples with two core themes: the personal toll of genocide, and processes that facilitate the crime. From political choices governments and leaders make, through to denialism and...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the

My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the

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This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret...
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five

Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five

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"A fascinating and well-written account of a little-known chapter that was crucial to the course of World War II and to America's global leadership." -Henry A. Kissinger In the dark...