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Major Hashida's Notebook: A Japanese spy's mission to Australia in
'An ingenious piece of historical reconstruction. It reads like a spy thriller.' Tom Gilling, author of Start Digging, You Bastards! In January 1941, the dapper, slightly built Major Hashida arrived...
Churchill
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever...
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink
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From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything , this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...
D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France
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The book titled D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France by the author Stephen Badsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Konin: A Quest
A blend of personal memoir, oral history and biography, a story of lives caught up in the sweep of history, the resulting book encompasses the Holocaust in an illuminating way....
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors
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From the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis ( Zero Six Bravo, Judy ) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister...
With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain
"Bold and refreshing... Korda writes with great elegance and flair." --Wall Street Journal Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer...
The Hardest Day: The Battle of Britain, 18 August 1940
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The book titled The Hardest Day: The Battle of Britain, 18 August 1940 by the author Dr Alfred Price. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Out of India: a Raj Childhood
Born in India in 1937, Michael Foss's childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India. Here,...
Japanese Submarine Raiders 1942: A Maritime Mystery
Just over three months after the surprise air raid over Darwin in 1942, Australians were once again shaken when the Japanese launched a surprise midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour,...
August '39: The Last Four Weeks of Peace
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The book titled August '39: The Last Four Weeks of Peace by the author Howarth/Stephen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Battle of Britain
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Written to coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Battle of Britain, with the profits from the book donated to the Douglas Bader Foundation, this book uses first-hand accounts of...
Roses from the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank
Anne Frank's diary is the most widely-read book after the Bible, yet never before has a biography of her been published. Carol Anne Lee has been allowed access to previously...
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides...
The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception
The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception tells the remarkable story of the deceptions, hoaxes and misdirections carried out by the Allies ahead of the most pivotal...
The Pacific War Uncensored: A War Correspondent's Unvarnished Account
Harold Guard became a war correspondent quite by chance, after he had been invalided out of the navy following a submarine accident. Thereafter, working for United Press, he gained a...
Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape: The
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A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed. On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 Allied officers...
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
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David Cesarani's Final Solution is a magisterial work of history that chronicles the fate of Europe's Jews. Based on decades of scholarship, documentation newly available from the opening of Soviet...
The Shadow's Edge: Australia's Northern War
This book is about a war zone and the people in it. The war was World War II; the zone Australias Northern Territory (7th Military District) with extensions into western...
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet it is a sad testament to our time that those who make...
Combat Aircraft of World War II: 1938-39
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This book which is part of a series, chronologically lists combat aircraft and air strategy, giving an overview of key events in World War II. It includes descriptions of fighters,...
Combat Aircraft of World War II: 1933-37
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This book, which is part of a series, gives technical information on fighters, bombers, assault aircraft and torpedo launchers employed during World War II. It also provides chronological and general...
The Fatherland and the Jews: Two Pamphlets by Alfred Wiener, 1919 and
The inaugural title in a collaboration between the Wiener Library and Granta Books. These two pamphlets, 'Prelude to Pogroms? Facts for the Thoughtful' and 'German Judaism in Political, Economic and...
The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book
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The book titled The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book by the author Paul R. Bartrop. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's
'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over...
Bulgarian Fighter Colours 1919-1948: Volume 2
Bulgaria is arguably the historically most underrated Axis ally that actually fought the Allies during World War 2. Despite remaining outside the main battleground of the war, the Eastern Front,...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
Widowmaker: Living and Dying with the Corsair
How the determination of young pilots transformed the Corsair from an aircraft considered too dangerous to fly from carriers into a successful carrier fighter. "Despite everything I felt very lucky...
The Battle Of Britain: The Fight for Survival in 1940
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Clear blue skies laced white with vapour trails of fighting aircraft... petrol-filled beer bottles in the garden shed to repel the panzers... streets deserted when the Prime Minister was on...
Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940
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Nineteen Weeks is Norman Moss's riveting account of FDR, Churchill, and the extraordinary decisions made in 1940 that set the stage for America's interventionist role in world affairs. The weeks...
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the
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In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped and sheltered for months by villagers behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century...
Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including...
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the
Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...
Conspiracy of One: Tyler Kent's Secret Plot Against Fdr, Churchill,
Officers from the U.S. Embassy, Scotland Yard, and MI5 broke into the bedroom of suave young American code clerk Tyler Kent. They found him standing beside his unmade bed, wearing...
The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide
The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book...
Strong to Serve: An Australian Spitfire Pilot's war over Europe
Following training in Australia, Canada and the UK, Fred Riley flew Spitfires with No 130 (Punjab) Squadron RAF from October 1943 until December 1944. Flying the Spitfire Mk.V, he escorted...
Building for Battle: Hitler's D-Day Defences
Following nearly two years of planning and exacting preparation, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of the Nazi-dominated European continent, was mounted in the early hours of 6th June, 1944. It...
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one...
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies
'Addictive and deeply moving' Independent 'Utterly gripping' Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph 'Enthralling ... A reminder that heroism can be found in the most unlikely places' Evening Standard 'I have seldom...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
The Few: Summer 1940 - Battle of Britain
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Fifty years ago, in the blue skies of a late English summer, history''s first major air battle was fought. In a journey to the airfields and other key locations, this...
Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots
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The book titled Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots by the author Bruce Barrymore Halpenny. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British
The book titled The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British by the author Anthony Cave Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Dunkirk
This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships....
Europa, Europa
The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film "An engrossing and memorable tale."Jewish Book World "The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange...