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Death in the City of Light (Trade)
Occupied Paris, 1944. The swastika flies from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Nazi officers patrol the elegant boulevards and the once-vibrant city is shrouded in suspicion and fear. At...
Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1943-46
The book titled Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1943-46 by the author Earl Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Lost Anzacs
This book is intended for students of military history and of Commonwealth history.
The Battle of Britain Pocket Manual 1940
Pocket manual detailing the training and operations of the British pilots, ground crew and anti-aircraft gunners. In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. For three long months, brave young...
Commandos
The Commandos were Britain's first-ever special forces, formed in 1940 using volunteers from all three services. After the war, Commando units of the Royal Marines engaged in virtually every military...
The Day the War Ended
Written by the author of "The Holocaust", this is a history of the events of 8 May 1945 and its repercussions, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary celebrations of...
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Absolutely gripping." -- The Washington Post - "A masterpiece of oral history...stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting." --Evan Thomas From the New...
Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution
This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solution'. It shows that the Warsaw...
Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O'Reilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris...
The Klemperer Diaries: v.2: To the Bitter End, 1942-45
Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to own pets....
The Last Secret Agent: The Extraordinary Story of a WW2 Spy in Her Own
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Vivid, honest, inspiring and sometimes shocking, Pippa Latour's memoir shows how right the SOE were to assess her as having '"tons of guts"' -CLARE MULLEY, author of...
The Longest Campaign: Britain's Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and
A complete account of the British maritime contribution to victory in World War II. For four centuries the British realm depended upon sea power to defend its interest and independence...
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding
Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research...
The Klemperer Diaries: v. 1: I Shall Bear Witness, 1933-41
The diaries of a Jew in Nazi Germany; the most important documnet to emerge from the period since the publication of The Diary Of Anne Frank.The first of two volumes,...
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and
Otto Dov Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, translated by Ralph Mandel, is a memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by...
Night
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A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the...
Station X (pb): The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
Tied to a Channel 4 television series in three one-hour parts, this is the story of the breaking of the Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II. That...
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz
THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey...
A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960
This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which question conventional views on research methods, developing our...
Literature in the Modern World
Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and `new writing', or `Commonwealth', perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is...
Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane
Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On...
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...
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 Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v.2
The book titled The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v.2 by the author Nora Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v. 1
The book titled The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v. 1 by the author Nora Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Hemingway: The Paris Years
The book titled Hemingway: The Paris Years by the author Michael S. Reynolds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The History of the "Times": v. 5: Struggles in War and Peace, 1939-66
The book titled The History of the "Times": v. 5: Struggles in War and Peace, 1939-66 by the author Iverach McDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
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 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...
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...
The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination
In the decades following the First World War, when aviation was still a revelation, flight was perceived as a spectacle to delight the eyes and stimulate the imagination. Robert Wohl...
Australia's China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s
Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the...
Binkie Beaumont: Eminence Grise of the West End Theatre, 1933-73
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This book examines the life of the little-known but highly successful man whose productions dominated London theatre for over 30 years. Following 10 years of research, the author has uncovered...
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...
The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party
The book titled The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party by the author Francis Beckett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
On the Side of the Angels
The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, the book...
Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51
The book titled Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51 by the author Ian Hamilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Still Alive: An Autobiographical Essay
Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and...
Stolen Treasure: The Hunt for the World's Lost Masterpieces
This book by two Russian art historians sets out to reveal how they did this and what happened to these works of art. With the end of the Soviet Union,...
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...
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...
British Naval Aviation: Fleet Air Arm, 1917-90
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From conducting the first deck landing to deployment of the first vertical take-off aircraft, the British Fleet Air Arm has been at the forefront of international naval air development. Through...
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85
These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945
The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman....