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Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
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A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" ( Wall Street Journal ) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own...
The Bomber Command Memorial: We Will Remember Them
The number of aircrew of Bomber Command who lost their lives during the Second World War was 55,573, yet no campaign medal was awarded and their bravery and sacrifice went...
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'...
The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and
The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert...
The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and
The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert...
A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French
The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism...
Britain's Secret War
Britain's Secret War tells the astonishing story of how Britain's spies, boffins and special operations teams helped to win the Second World War. The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers...
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...
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk , Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history...
The Music Maker: One POW provided hope for thousands
On May 8 1945, forty-six-year-old Drum Major Jackson staggered towards his American liberators. Emaciated, dressed in rags, his decayed boots held together with string, he'd been force-marched for twenty days...
When Men & Mountains Meet Paperback: Like the desire for drink or
We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of...
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...
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...
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- In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army...
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark...
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...
The Water is Never Cold: The Origins of U.S. Naval Combat Demolition
The Water Is Never Cold is a groundbreaking study of the birth of the U.S. Navy's combat demolition teams. Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDUs) and Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs), little-known...
A Blue Water Navy: The Official Operational History of the Royal
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Although the Royal Canadian Navy had spent the early years of the Second World War in a desperate struggle against German U-boats on the North Atlantic convoy routes, the service's...
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...
Lucky Lady (CL)
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Steve Jacksons Lucky Lady chronicles the saga of the aircraft carrier Franklin, the light cruiser Santa Fe, and their tragic encounter on March 19, 1945, when a Japanese bomber broke...
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: v. 10:
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Recounts the role of the United States in World War II at sea, from encounters in the Atlantic before the country entered the war to the surrender of Japan.
Gestapo Hunter: The Remarkable Wartime Career of Mosquito Navigator
Gestapo Hunter explores the charmed life and exceptional career of Ted Sismore, widely considered one of the RAF's very best wartime navigators and leaders. A quiet, unassuming man who was...
Hitler's Hangmen: The Plot to Kill Churchill
Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War, there were a number of sizable Fascist groups active in Britain, all of whom were working towards a violent uprising...
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi
The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and bringing his tormentors to justice. **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**...
The Jeep: Second World War
The Second World War Jeep was one of the most famous and influential military vehicles of all time, and over 600,000 were produced. It served with all the Allied forces...
Hollywood Victory: The Movies, Stars, and Stories of World War II
Remember a time when all of Hollywood-with the expressed encouragement and investment of the government-joined forces to defend the American way of life? It was World War II and the...
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...
The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews
It has long been claimed that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Did they deny refuge to those fleeing Hitler's death machine? Why did they fail...