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Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
The Last Big Gun: At War & At Sea with HMS Belfast
As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler's newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that...
Deep Sea Hunters
Beginning with the disastrous Norwegian Campaign, it takes in the numerous attacks on the bustling German submarine base at Lorient, the attack on Brest, as well as many other pivotal...
Death Was Our Bed-mate
The book tells the story of a little known artillery regiment, the 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA which saw constant action during the ill-fated Malayan Campaign of 1941/42 and...
From Hitlers U-Boats to Kruschevs Spyflights
This book is about the Royal Air Force Career of Tom Clark, who joined the RAF as an Aircraft man just before WW2 in June 1939. After "Dunkirk" he trained...
Third Reich Victorious: Alternative Decisions of World War II
War is a deadly game of chance where a single detail or decision can have far-reaching consequences. What if Hitler's generals had captured the cream of the British Expeditionary Force...
Attack on the Scheldt
During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of...
Fighter Command's Air War 1941
Following the Battle of Britain, the RAF started taking the air war to the Germans. A small number of bombers, escorted by large numbers of fighters tried to force the...
Operation EPSOM - Over the Battlefield
Before EPSOM in late June 1944 there remained the chance that a German counter-stroke might seriously threaten the bridgehead. After EPSOM, the Allies retained the strategic initiative through to the...
From St Vith to Victory
Compiled from a variety of sources and first-hand accounts, this book is an authoritative record of the part played by No.218 (Gold Coast) Squadron during the bomber offensives of World...
No Surrender in Burma: Operations Behind Japanese Lines, Captivity and
This is the extraordinary true story of a British Commando in Burma who, cut off behind enemy lines, walked 2,000 miles towards India and freedom in 1942, but was betrayed...
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945
The story of how the British really won two world wars - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and bluffing their way out of trouble. Pretend German radio stations broadcast...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the
Georg Elser was just an ordinary working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a carpenter and had spent some time working in a watch factory. That all...
Rommel's Ghost Division: Victory in the West: Rare Photographs from
June 1940. In just weeks, General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division dubbed the 'Ghost Division' - had driven headlong through Allied forces in Belgium and France to reach the English...
Panther German Army Medium Tank: Italian Front, 1944-1945
The Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland had been met with tenacious resistance by the Germans but the defence consisted for the most part of armoured units that...
Paris After The Liberation: New Edition
A revised edition of the book to give it the same format and cover look as Antony Beevor's STALINGRAD and BERLIN. Publication in May 2004 will coincide with the 60...
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak
On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson...
Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II
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More than 6000 warships are included in this comprehensive encyclopedia of the world''s navies during the Second World War. The basis of the volume was the first unc ensored edition...
King George V Class Battleships
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They were some of the finest ships the Royal Navy ever built--the last of the great "floating villages" to see WWII action. Their achievements appear in dramatic photos of both...
Most Secret War
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This text is Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949. It was his responsibility to anticipate German applications of science to warfare, so that...
Growing Up In A War
A beautifully written evocation of lost world and a vanished childhood, by the author of Clouds of Glory. This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being...
The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign
A vivid re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through detailed maps, authoritative text by a noted military historian and contemporary photographs. This powerful study chronicles the evolution...
Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World Wa
A portrait of the harrowing effect of war told through the individual stories of the author's familyThe immense dislocations of World War II have no precedent in human history: 28...
Explaining Hitler
The book titled Explaining Hitler by the author Ron Rosenbaum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb...
Victory Roll:: The American Fighter Pilot and Aircraft in World War II
He was selected from the cream of American youth, with admission standards much more restrictive than any other branch of the military. Well-trained pilots flying superior new fighter aircraft against...
Eyewitness D-Day: Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to
This book features interviews with over 50 survivors. It contains hundreds of photographs, including wartime pictures of veterans. It includes a detailed fold-out map of the Normandy beaches, plus a...
Scenes From The End
The book titled Scenes From The End by the author Frank E Manuel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Prison Journal, 1940-1945
France's Prime Minister and signatory to the Munich Agreement in 1938, Edouard Daladier, was arrested and imprisoned by the Vichy Regime for the duration of World War II. As a...
Occupation: The Ordeal of France 1940-1944
Defeat in 1940 left the French so chastened and demoralized that they readily supported the Vichy regime, committed not just to pragmatic collaberation but to finding scapegoats for the nation's...
The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign
A vivid re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through detailed maps, authoritative text by a noted military historian and contemporary photographs. This powerful study chronicles the evolution...
Blood & Banquets Fromm
The book titled Blood & Banquets Fromm by the author Bella Fromm. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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...
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...
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...
Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January
The book titled Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January by the author Trevor Nevitt Dupuy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
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,...
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide
Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the Holocaust never reaches the general public, and our notions...
Unholy War: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
The story of the Catholic Church's role in the persecution of the Jews. In this investigation, David Kertzer argues that the Roman Catholic Church's role in the historical hatred and...
Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years...
D-DAY The Oral History: The Turning Point of WWII By the People Who
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A LANDMARK NEW ACCOUNT OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF WW2, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IT **** 'Comprehensive... from a...
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War
A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian June 1944. Operation Bagration- the greatest defeat ever suffered by the...
Japan's War in Colour
Featuring rare Japanese, US and Allied footage from 1931 to 1945, this extraordinary book depicts WW2 from the Japanese perspective. Included are letters and diaries of Japanese soldiers and civilians.
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American
A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
SAS Daggers Drawn: In For the Kill: The Third in the Blair 'Paddy'
THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE, ENDORSED BY THE MAYNE FAMILY Summer 1944: the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the...
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Hugely enjoyable' The Spectator 'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER,...