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Sisters under the Rising Sun: A powerful story from the author of The
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A Richard and Judy summer book club pick 'One of the books of the decade' - Richard Madeley The phenomenal new novel, based on a true story, from the multimillion-copy...
Scholars Of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
Author: Daniel C. Guiet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German...
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two
'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes...
D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France
Everyone is familiar with the story of D-Day and the triumphal liberation of France by the Allies: a barbaric enemy was defeated by Allied ingenuity, courage and overwhelming military force,...
The Last Light Over Oslo: A Novel
Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the...
A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the
'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper. ' Do...
Whispering Death: Australian airmen in the Pacific War
In Whispering Death , Mark Johnston, one of Australia's leading experts on World War II, explains vividly how more than 130,000 Australian airmen fought Japan from the Pacific War's first...
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy
The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12 August 1944, a unit of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier...
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
'You are no longer a number' Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity,...
Courage for the Cabinet Girl
Bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green is back with her most engrossing, heartfelt World War Two saga yet! Preorder The Wartime Librarian's Secret now! Working for Winston Churchill, can she...
Stalingrad
The international mega-bestseller that redefined military history, reissued for the 75th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles in history In October 1942, a Panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in
Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of one...
Hiroshima
A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble...
The Long and Winding Road: My Autobiography
One of the world's bestselling storytellers, Lesley Pearse writes brilliantly about survivors. Why? Because she is one herself . . . Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she...
A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the
'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper. ' Do...
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
"An absorbing account of romantics enchanted by Kiplingesque myths and the Lawrence of Arabia legend, who cynically harboured the self-contradictory ambition of democratizing the Arab world and Iran while arrogating...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children...
The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings From History
A propulsive narrative history of the motivation and mentality behind the Nazis and their supporters. How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration...
Paris France
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with...
Opening The Gates of Hell: The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man
Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945. He kept his story from the world until...
Sisters in Captivity: Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous
The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor
The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent....
Wings of Glory: An action-packed, funny adventure story
Join one tiny bird on a hilarious adventure to save his sister - and his country! An action-packed tale of courage, adventure and a smattering of bird...
The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and
'Impressive . . . perceptive . . . humane . . . the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich' IAN KERSHAW AUTHOR...
Auschwitz A Mother's Story: How I fought to survive and see my
Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. 'My child, I have to go with her!' I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before...
Queen High: Thrilling dystopian follow up to WIDOWLAND
A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR BRITAIN, WITH THE WRONG QUEEN. 1955. Britain remains a Protectorate of Germany. The assassination of the Leader on British soil...
SAS Nazi Hunters
'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear Grylls SAS NAZI HUNTERS is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most...
The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful
'Really outstanding' Jonathan Dimbleby At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by...
The Origins of the Second World War
One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller....
The Coast Watchers: The Men Behind Enemy Lines Who Saved the Pacific
'They watched and warned and died that we might live.' (Inscription on the Coastwatcher Memorial at Madang, PNG) After Pearl Harbor, Japan swept unchecked through the Pacific. But a tiny...
Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great and most dramatic hinge moments of WW2 ** THE...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...
A Death in Berlin: A gripping new World War 2 thriller from the
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! ' Scarrow's Berlin is sharply drawn with closely observed detail, a place that reeks of threat and fear - and not just from the Gestapo'...
Eagles Over North Africa and the Mediterranean 1940-1943
This superb illustrated series charts the rise and fall of the German Air Force from 1939 to 1945. Each volume makes use of over a hundred rare and valuable photographs,...
Lancaster Men: The Aussie heroes of Bomber Command
'[Rees'] account of the danger and difficulty is gripping.a remarkable book.' - Canberra Times 'Rees has an eye for technical detail and a passion for the people involved. Lancaster Men...
The Royal Windsor Secret: A Novel
Could she be the secret daughter of the Prince of Wales In this dazzling novel by the author of Sisters of the Resistance, a young woman seeks to discover the...
SAS: Rogue Heroes
The first ever authorised history of the SAS, now a major BBC series starring Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell and Dominic West In the summer of 1941, at the height of...
Japan's War: Hirohito's Holy War Against the West
'A superbly revealing account of a dreadful and profoundly sad war' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'T his extraordinary book gives us a unique insight into why and how Japan fought such an...
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five
A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five...
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime
This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not...
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women...
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich
There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon...
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991
THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book...
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis, 'utterly
'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph , Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume...
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history in...
A Mother's Hope: the heartwarming new emotional family saga novel for
THE BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM MAGGIE MASON, AUTHOR OF THE HALFPENNY GIRLS AND THE FORTUNE TELLERS She'll do anything to protect her family from war . . . BLACKPOOL, 1914 Seventeen-year-old...
The Collaborator's Daughter
'Moved me to tears' Angela Petch bestselling author of The Tuscan Secret In 1944 in war-torn Dubrovnik Branko Milisic holds his newborn daughter Safranka and wishes her a better future....