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Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard...
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris
A lost princess and a vanished world- a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the cataclysm of the Second World War...
To Calm My Dreams: Surviving Auschwitz
Kazimierz Tyminski was young and full of life, a Polish university student living in Krakow, with a talent for music. He had a brief spell in the Polish Resistance before...
Chased by the Sun: The Australians in Bomber Command in World War II
The glow of the sun was frightening and it chased them home . . . Bill Brill began losing height to escape the sky growing lighter above and behind him....
The Story of the Second World War
An account of World War II from the perspective of historians and firsthand observers, this study seeks to provide readers with an accurate picture of how the war was perceived...
Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany
Despite all the thousands of studies of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, we still have no satisfactory explanation of why this tragedy occurred in one of the...
The Women Who Spied for Britain: Female Secret Agents of the Second
Espionage is one of the world's oldest professions, and it played an integral role in Allied successes and failures during the Second World War. Equal to men in both their...
The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Magnificent . . . Important and impressive' DAILY TELEGRAPH ' Astonishing . . . Freedland is a...
Pearl Harbor: Japan's Fatal Blunder
In this gripping narrative, the author reviews the decisions made by Admiral Nagumo, the Japanese strike force commander, and his chief of staff, Admiral Kusaka, and examines the battle of...
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women...
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "superb [and] intensely readable" ( The Washington Post ) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Smoky the Brave
The World's Smallest Dog with the World's Biggest Heart SMOKY THE BRAVE is the extraordinary, touching and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles...
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis,
The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory, for fans of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE...
The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific
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In the early days of World War II, Great Britain and Australia fell tragically at odds. Australia had always rallied to the British colors, confident the Mother Country would reciprocate....
A Pacifist At War: The Silence of Francis Cammaerts
An extraordinary first-hand story of leading the wartime resistance in France. One of the last major untold stories of the war, this is the first-hand account of a conscientious objector...
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
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From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you...
The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi
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Based on documents discovered concealed within a simple chair for seventy years, this gripping investigation into the life of a single S.S. officer during World War Two encapsulates the tragic...
Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...
Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture (from the acclaimed author
Picardie's journey to uncover the secret life of Christian Dior's beloved sister Catherine takes the reader to the heart of Occupied Paris, where he mastered the art of couture while...
The Death of Hitler: The Final Word
On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth...
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...
Lifeline: The Merchant Navy at War, 1939-45
The Merchant Navy suffered proportionately the highest casualties of any of the Services in the Second World War, approximately 30,0000 of the 185,000 seamen who served being killed. Yet their...
Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945
The Second World War was the first in which amphibious landings played a truly significant part in the outcome of a global conflict and in this work, drawing on the...
SECRET AGENTS POCKET MANUAL
Most wars have had some element of espionage and subterfuge, but few have included as much as the Second World War, where the all-embracing nature of the conflict, new technology,...
HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story
On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only...
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 Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the "rousing" (Jay Winik, author of 1944 ) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II-a triumph achieved only through...
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...
Haunting Paris: A Novel
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Paris, 1989: Alone in her luminous apartment on Ile Saint-Louis, Sylvie discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover Julien's possessions, launching her into a decades-old search for a child...
Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That
On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to...
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
How much of a surprise was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour? History has tended to blame the two commanders of Hawaii's military installations, Admiral Kimmel and General Short, for...
Sas With the Maquis: in Action With the French Resistance,
-- First-hand account of SAS operations in France 1944 -- Written immediately after the events took place -- First trade paperback edition (hardback first published 1994) In this exciting first-hand...
Little Cyclone
It was known as the Comet Line. It was the greatest escape route in the Resistance Movement and in its three years of life it saved over 800 airmen and...
Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army: The Official List of SOE
The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its...
Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the
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Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe...
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...