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The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan'S Attack on the Indian
. Gripping account of a little-known but crucial episode in World War IIOne of the biggest 'what if' moments of WWIIPuts a new perspective on Japan's military ambitions in WWII...
Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home
The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not...
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: North-West Europe 1944-1945
In this delightful book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life - and death - in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's...
Hitler's Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Nazi Plan for Final
A fascinating illustrated account of a crucial but less well-known aspect of the Third Reich. The story of the weapons that could have won the war: Nazi flying saucers, the...
Battle for the Escaut 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign
On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off...
Back from Tobruk
In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he...
Cover Up at Omaha Beach: Maisy Battery and the US Ranges
The Rangers mission was clear. They were to lead the assault on Omaha Beach and breakout inland. Simultaneously other Ranger units would scale the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to...
D-Day: Dawn of Heroes
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Voices of Colditz: The YMCA Notebook from Oflag Ivc
Rarely does a piece of history emerge to tell a significant tale after nearly 70 years in a bedroom drawer. Recovered and brought back to Britain in 1945, a battered...
Back from Tobruk
In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he...
Churchill's Spearhead
This book covers the inception, growth and employment of Britain's airborne forces (parachute and glider-borne formations) between June 1940 and March 1945. It takes a comparative approach and follows tailored...
Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home
The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not...
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: North-West Europe 1944-1945
In this delightful book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life - and death - in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's...
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever
Between April 22 and May 30, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but it had until then been fought on the battlefield...
Churchill and Sea Power
Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the...
The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders
Known in some accounts as the Battle of Wijtschaete, the confrontation along the Ypres-Comines Canal in 1940 is still hardly remembered in this country and, apart from the battle honours...
Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the
"Winter Soldiers is an immensely valuable contribution to the history of the Vietnam War. It brings to life, through the words of the veterans themselves, the journey each individual made,...
For the Love of a Soldier: Australian War-Brides and Their Gi'S
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I Am Spain
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Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
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Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest
There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted...
Normandy in the Time of Darkness: Everyday Life and Death in the
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...
Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement
Why those who protested the Vietnam War must be honored, remembered, and appreciated "Hell no" was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history-the effort to end...
Bomber Command: Reflections of War Volume 2 - Intensified Attack
This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Command's pilots and aircrew throughout WWII. From the early wartime years when the RAF's first attempts to avenge...
The Day Rommel Was Stopped: The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942
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...
Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945
Despite the enduring popular image of the blitzkrieg of World War II, the German Army always depended on horses. It could not have waged war without them. While the Army's...
The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany
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...
US Eighth Air Force in Europe: Black Thursday Blood and Oil
This book describes the period when the American daylight offensive faltered and nearly failed and recalls the terrible losses suffered by Liberators on the low-level attack on the Ploesti oilfields...
What It Is Like To Go To War
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Experimental Units of Hitler's Condor Legion
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...
Never Surrender: Dramatic Escapes From Japanese Prison Camps
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...
Combat Biplanes of World War II
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...
Bomber Command: Reflections of War Volume 3 - The Heavies Move In 1942
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...
Sacrifice for Stalin
Operation BARBAROSSA, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was a turning point second only to Pearl Harbor. Russia became an ally overnight but a most difficult, dangerous...
Thunder in the Heavens: Classic American Aircraft of World War II
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The Pianist
The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival...
The Long Road to Lavender Cottage
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Task Force Helmand: A Soldier's Story of Life, Death and Combat on the Afghan Front Line
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The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven't...
Hitler's British Isles
True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has vividly summoned a troubling episode from our national past.'...
Bomber Boys: The extraordinary adventures of a group of airmen who escaped the Japanese and became the RAAF's celebrated 18th Squadron
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A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of...
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...
Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce...
Germany, 1945: From War to Peace
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Encounters with Hiroshima: Making Sense of the Nuclear Age
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War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942 - 1945
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