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The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. In 1942, before El Alamein...

Cesarani describes how the immigration policy of Clement Attlee's post-war government actually favoured Eastern Europeans over non-whites and Jewish Holocaust survivors. Despite protests from MPs Dick Crossman and Tom Driberg,...

An honest tour of the Vietnam War from the soldier's eye view . . . Nam-Sense is the brilliantly written story of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne...

This is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold...

This work recounts Richard Hillary's experiences as a fighter pilot in World War II, in which he was shot down and spent months in hospital, undergoing operations to rebuild his...

'A deed of glory intimately involved in high strategy' - Winston Churchill St Nazaire, 1.34am March 28th, 1942 - the destroyer HMS Campbeltown , with her Oerlikons blazing at the...

The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the...

Half the British Army never left Britain during the Second World War and became, with the civilian population, the Home Front. In WARTIME the danger, courage, deprivation, exhaustion, fear, humour...

The book titled The War Against the Jews 1933-45 by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

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...

While great leaders may sometimes be born, there are certain traits they share. To be a highly effective leader you must inspire action, be optimistic, have integrity, support your team,...

Forty years of research has resulted in this exceptional photographic history of life within the 'Sonderlager' of Colditz castle, the famous prisoner of war camp in Germany during World War...

For 12 days in May 1940 the Hurricane squadrons of the Royal Air Force faced the might of the German Air Force and carved a glorious chapter in the annals...

The book titled Krait: The Fishing Boat That Went to War by the author Lynette Ramsay Silver. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Timor 1942: Australian Commandos at War with the Japanese by the author Christopher C.H. Wray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the commencement of the Berlin airlift, this book describes how, from June 1948 to midsummer 1949, Berlin was blockaded by the Russians and...

No. 9 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, formed in 1914, went to the second great war on 4 September 1939. The Squadron's Wellington aircraft and crews were the first to hit...

The book titled D-Day: The Air Battle by the author Ken Delve. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is an analysis of British fighter planes during World War II. The book looks at the pace of the development of the planes during the war when production difficulties...

This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Command's pilots and aircrew throughout World War Two. From the early wartime years when the RAF's first attempts...

Written by a Commando veteran of World War II, this is a remarkable, vivid and honest account of the battles and actions behind the award of the thirty eight Battle...

Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature. Approaching...

The era of the combat biplane is usually thought to have been between 1914 and 1938. By the outbreak of World War II, most of the advanced air forces of...

While there have been many fine books covering escapes from German POW camps (The Wooden Horse, Great Escape, Colditz etc), the exploits of those POWs in Japanese captivity have been...

Account of the battle at Ruweisat Ridge in North Africa, where Rommel was stopped. George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carre 'This is the most amazing book, full of...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER 'Astonishing . . . Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily Mail 'A rollicking read' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Brilliant and almost...

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At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force and Army formed what was...

'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...

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...

A sequel to Fighter Pilot, which told of Paul Richey's experiences during the first few months of World War II, this book deals with the rest of his war experiences....

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...

The book titled THUNDER IN THE HEAVENS by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Eyewitness D-Day by the author Jon E. Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a new and frightening insight into Japanese atrocities in the Second World War. The horrific conditions aboard hellships at sea are revealed including the torture, disease and massacre...

SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department, set up in July 1940. Its job was to support and stimulate resistance in...

Thirty thousand American GI's were killed or wounded in the longest battle ever fought by the US Army - a battle that has been ignored for more than 40 years....

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...

The book titled Dunkirk: The Storms of War by the author John Harris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Examines the actual physical and mental experiences of the American and British front-line soldier in World War II. This book is the result of research among memoirs published and unpublished...

This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy (1940-44), and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940, Normandy formed part of the Reich's...

The book titled Air War Pacific by the author Christopher Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.