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The final race
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On July 19, 1924, Eric Liddell was on top of the world. He was the most famous Briton at the time, having just won the gold in the Olympic 400-meter...
Desperate Glory: At War in Helmand with Britain's 16 Air Assault
His mates watch, and giggle, when tracer bullets from Spongebob's machine gun rip through a Taleban fighter. A wounded colonel high on morphine mistakes a helicopter for a train. Young...
Australia's Greatest Escapes: Gripping tales of wartime bravery
Australia's greatest escape stories from two world wars Australia's Greatest Escapes is a collection of stories about the most hazardous aspect of the prisoner of war experience - escape. Here...
The Turning of the Tide 1942-44: v. 3
The Second World War Experience is a four-volume series published in association with the Imperial War Museum, covering the whole six-year global conflagration. This book charts the period when the...
Lest: Australian War Myths
From Simpson's donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn't happen the way most people think they did. In...
D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Battle For The Normandy Beaches
On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, bestselling author and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that...
Changing Altitudes: Stories of Australian Air Force Women
In the early years of the Second World War, Australian women began lobbying to contribute to the nation's wartime effort. From 1940, women were signing up to serve in the...
Write Home For Me: A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam
An intimate portrait of tragedy, hope and humour in a war zone. An intimate portrait of tragedy, hope and humour in a war zone. Working as a journalist at the...
Never Surrender
In Never Surrender Robert Kershaw captures the authentic voices of the ordinary heroes of the Second World War, from the soldiers fighting abroad to those battling on the home front,...
Intrepid Aviators: The American Flyers Who Sank Japan's Greatest
The true story of the World War II Pacific naval battle that pitted the USS Intrepid's naval aviatorsagainst Japan's superbattleship Musashi duringthe Battle of Leyte Gulf. October 24, 1944- As...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard
It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...
Ultra Goes to War
Ultra -- the code word for the greatest secret of World War II -- was the method by which the Allies intercepted German radio transmissions and broke their coded contents....
The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert,
In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsible as the first head of SS-Einsatzkommando 9, a...
Bomber Command: Failed to Return
With an average age of just twenty-two, the young airmen of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command, all volunteers, began operating within minutes of the start of the Second World...
They Have Their Exits: the Best-selling Escape Memoir of World War Two
The author, wounded and taken prisoner in Calais in 1940 became a compulsive escaper and was the first of the very few to make a 'home-run' from Colditz Castle. Thereafter...
A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance
On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's Domain to witness the dedication of the Shrine. It was the largest state war memorial...
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of
Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for,...
Bomber Command: Failed to Return
With an average age of just twenty-two, the young airmen of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command, all volunteers, began operating within minutes of the start of the Second World...
The Woman Who Censored Churchill
Ruth Ive will be appearing as part of Jewish Book Week on 1st March 2010 Click here to see details on the Jewish Book Week website http://www.jewishbookweek.com/ During the Second...
A Moment of War
In December 1937 a naive young Englishman slipped across the Spanish frontier to fight for the Republican cause. In the third volume of his autobiographical trilogy, which began with "Cider...
France, 1814-1940
The history of 19th and early 20th century France has often seemed complex and confusing. "France, 1814-1940" presents a an authoritative account of this fascinating period. It describes the characteristics...
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...
Meeting at Potsdam
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Charles Mee's astute portrayals of Stalin, Truman and Churchill reveal the egos and intrigues at play in Potsdam in 1945, where the groundwork for the Cold War was laid. [history][political]...
Korea: The Ground War from Both Sides
The Korean War opened with the invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans in June 1950. This superbly illustrated book traces the fluctuating fortunes of war from both sides....
KANDAK: Fighting with Afghans
From the author of the top ten bestseller The Junior Officers' Reading Club. When Patrick Hennessey returned home from Afghanistan, battle-worn, exhilarated, unsure if he'd see anything like it in...
The Venlo Sting: MI6's Deadly Fiasco
On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident...
A Moment of War
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to...
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
National Serviceis a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with an extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as the British Empire itself. With...
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade 'Wallonien' 1942-45
His Finest Hours: The War Speeches of Winston Churchill
The greatest British statesman and a truly outstanding orator, Winston Churchill steered his nation through the bloodiest war in history. His famous speeches raised the morale of an anxious people...
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True
Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing could be further from...
A WWII Soldier in the Pacific: During and After 1943-1945
Anyone familiar with WWII studies in the Pacific will recognize the name Eugene B. Sledge. The author, who corresponded with Sledge 30 years ago, shared the experience of serving on...
The Blue Door: A little girl's incredible story of survival in the
A unique and heartbreaking memoir of a child's imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp during World War II. 1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends...
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
A detailed, incisive thirty-five-year history of the top six members of an inner circle of government advisors-Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice-and the...
FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of
Nineteen months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR sent twelve "vice consuls" to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia on a secret mission. Their objective? To prepare the groundwork for what...
Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945: Volume II Escorts and
Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In wartime such information was...
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
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On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third...
Coastal Dawn: Blenheims in action from the Phoney War through to the
In 1940, the defence of Great Britain rested with a handful of volunteer aircrew, Churchill's 'few'. Overshadowed in later folklore by the more famous Spitfire and Hurricane pilots, there were...
Bounce the Rhine: The Spellmount Siegfried Line Series Volume Nine
In September, 1944, Montgomery predicted that his armies would easily 'bounce the Rhine' to strike a final blow at the heart of Hitler's Reich. However, his confidence was misplaced; nearly...
West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line: The Spellmount
An account of the battle for the Siegfried Line in the final year of World War II, which raged for six, long, bloody months along a front of 350 miles...
Atrocities, Diamonds and Diplomacy
In early 1997 Peter Penfold, arrived in Sierra Leone as the British High Commissioner. This fascinating book describes not just his eventful three year tour but the background and subsequent...
Loose Ends and Extras
'Loose Ends and Extras' is the last in a trilogy of books Lord Briggs has completed since his 90th birthday in May 2011. Following on from 'Special Relationships: People and...
Battle for Sicily: Stepping Stone to Victory
On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days,...
Donitz's Last Gamble: the Inshore U-boat Campaign 1944-45
After the June 1944 D-Day landings Donitz withdrew his U-boat wolf-packs from the Atlantic convoy war and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the massive shipping movements...