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Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. In the closing months of...
Civil War in Ulster: its Objects and Probable Consequences: its
Joseph Johnston was an Ulster Protestant Liberal, in favour of Home Rule by Britain. He published this book in 1913 to persuade the majority of Ulstermen that the dangers they...
An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion,
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers,...
Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec
Landing on the beach at Gallipoli, aged 16, Alec Campbell looked no more than 12-years-old in his big brother's uniform. He was a young Australian caught up in a war...
A Bunker in Kyiv: The Astonishing Story of the People's Army Defying
A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over Jerusalem Longlisted for the 2025 Walkley Award On 24 February 2022, residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, woke to...
The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN The epic successor to Tim...
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...
Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for
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While the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg has been at the centre of scholarly attention, the Tokyo Tribunal has for decades been largely neglected. This is surprising insofar as this...
The Changi Book
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The story of Changi, told by those who lived through it. In the tradition of The Anzac Book comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi...
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men...
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True
The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused...
Saving Big Ben: The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan
Father Joe O'Callahan, S.J. was the unlikeliest war hero. A bespectacled math professor from Holy Cross, he became the U.S. Navy's first Jesuit chaplain in World War II and served...
The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter...
The Ship That Would Not Die: USS Queens, SS Excambion, and USTS Texas
Starting its life as an attack transport in World War II-and one of the last five left afloat by war's end-the USS Queens saw action at Iwo Jima and other...
Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941 -
Glen Williford lends new insight to the reasons for America's relatively quick comeback from the attack on Pearl Harbour. For the first time, he tells the complete story of American...
United States Coastguard in World War II
Originally published in 1957, this intimate view of the Coast Guard's dramatic World War II record has long been considered a classic. Out of print for years, it is once...
A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE
During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead'...
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941-45
In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a Cryptographer...
They Were Never Told: Tragedy of HMS "Dasher"
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Containing material never before seen They W ere Never Told includes original statements from those caugh t up in the disaster, a full examination of the Board of Enq uiry''s...
Australia's Frontline: The Northern Territory's War
Australia’s Frontline: The Northern Territory's War is a historical book by Frank X. Alcorta, first published in 1991 by Allen & Unwin. It was commissioned by the Northern Territory government...
A Child at Arms
A narrative of a young officer's fears and triumphs, of the discomforts and tragedies attendant on battle, the terrors and confusion in the midst of action against a fanatically tenacious...
Okinawa, 1945: Final Assault on the Empire
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Based on official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sources, as well as British Admiralty and Japanese records, a dramatic narrative unfolds, reflecting the hard-fought carrier actions, air strikes, kamikaze assaults,...
Blockade Busters, The
Recounts one of the greatest sea stories of World War II. It is the story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was...
Air Commandos Against Japan: Allied Special Operations in World War II
In 1943, in response to Orde Wingate's account to President Roosevelt of what could be done in Burma with proper air support, the U.S. Army Air Forces created what would...
On the Swing Shift: Building Liberty Ships in Savannah
During World War II eighty-eight of the almost three thousand Liberty ships built in America were launched in Savannah, Georgia. Without Liberty ships, the Battle of the Atlantic might have...
Indomitable Will: Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to
Some of the worst military disasters in U.S. history occurred between Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. During this period, the American...
The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of
During the night of 27th April 1944, Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the D-day landings, took place off the coast of Devon. This supposedly routine exercise experienced a series of...
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945
Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on 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...
The Gathering Storm: The Second World War
In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War. This volume also includes appendices, an index, maps and diagrams. Winston Churchill's...
Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis
Following the enormous success of HITLER- HUBRIS this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding...
Battlefields of the Second World War
This study of war skillfully clarifies the complexities of four major World War II military campaigns: El Alamein, Monte Cassino (Italy), Operation Market Garden (of which Arnhem formed a crucial...
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL AND THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Richard...
Crew: The story of the men who flew RAAF Lancaster J for Jig
On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J for Jig took off from an airfield in Lincolnshire. On board was a crew of seven young men-five Australians,...