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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,...
Bonzo's War: Animals Under Fire 1939 -1945
What was it like to be a dog or cat when the world was at war? When food was rationed and cities were bombed? Pets (on the whole) do not...
Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World
"Highly accessible and sprightly written."-Library Journal Winner of the Kansas State Library's Kansas Notable Book Award In this engaging, fast-paced biography, Louis Galambos follows the career of Dwight D. "Ike"...
The Work I Did: A Memoir of the Secretary to Goebbels
'I know no one ever believes us nowadays - everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing. It was all a well-kept secret. We believed it. We swallowed it. It...
Kursk: The Greatest Battle
5th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces was one of the...
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War
Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique responsibility to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The...
Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe
After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce. Britain was bankrupt, while Germany had...
Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War. The legendary 'Red Devils' were among the...
The Hidden Army - MI9's Secret Force and the Untold Story of D-Day
Almost seventy-five years ago, MI9 dreamt up the most audacious escape and evasion plan of World War Two. Formulated by Airey Neave, one of the first men ever to escape...
Victory in Italy
While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to The Fatherland, 15 Army Group's 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable results in Northern Italy....
Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay from
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Documents the outstanding accomplishments of the British Eighth Army, under the command of General Sir Bernard Montgomery, which successfully battled the forces of the Axis powers in battles at Sidi...
Four Packs to Freedom
The book titled Four Packs to Freedom by the author Basil Brudenell-Woods. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and
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The book titled Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and by the author Janina Bauman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of One of World War II's Most
In the tradition of Band of Brothers and Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad, Donovan Webster's The Burma Road vividly recreates one of the astonishing and important events of the Second World War...
Time at War: a memoir
Nicholas Mosley, son of Oswald Mosley and his first wife, is an admired novelist, most famous for Accident , filmed by Joseph Losey from a Harold Pinter screenplay and starring...
Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941
Did the arms race of the 1930s cause the Second World War? In Cry Havoc, historian Joseph Maiolo shows, in rich and fascinating detail, how the deadly game of the...
Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into War
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The book titled Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into War by the author James Rusbridger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two
In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second...
US Small Arms in World War II: A photographic history of the weapons
US Small Arms in World War II is a detailed photographic study of the wide array of weapons that American troops were issued during World War II. Packed with rare...
World at War
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Discover all you need to know about World War I and II in this enthralling account of the greatest wars the world has seen. Complete with authentic and striking photography...
An Eyewitness History of World War II
Among the eyewitness testimonies included are those of Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Charles Lindbergh, James Farmer, John Steinbeck, George Marshall, James A. Michener, Douglas MacArthur, and...
Uniforms of the Third Reich: A Study in Photographs
This new book takes a close look at a variety of authentic World War II era German uniforms including examples from the Army, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Allgemeine-SS, Hitler Youth and...
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller he is' - Andrew Roberts,...
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
A biographical study of Hitler's inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regime Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of...
Turning the Tide: Decisive Battles of the Second World War
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Arcturus Military Classics discuss the strategies, tactics and weapons of the two World Wars, and vividly bring to life how these were employed on the battlefields of Europe, North Africa...
The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: How Sailors lived, fought and died in
2024 winner of the Australian Naval Institutes Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one...
Takeover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...
With Britain in Mortal Danger: Britain's Secret Army
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In 1938 the War Office ordered the Director of Military Intelligence to create a unit that would research the tactics and organisation needed in the event of an invasion. After...
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the
THE NEW BOOK THE TRAITORS CIRCLE COMING SOON FROM JONATHAN FREEDLAND SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE, RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE...
The School That Escaped the Nazis
'DEVASTATINGLY AFFECTING' THE TIMES 'EMOTIONALLY COMPELLING' OBSERVER In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring plan: to smuggle all her pupils out of Nazi Germany...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest
'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH...
Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story
'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed? '- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 2024...
A Girls' Guide to Winning the War: The most heartwarming, uplifting
'A heart-warming tale about resilience, friendships and family, and the inestimable power of the written word' RUTH HOGAN 'A heart-warming depiction of strong female friendships tested by suffering - Annie...
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance
Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction. 'The best...
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is:...
War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties
World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...
Abandoned?
The book titled Abandoned? by the author Don Wall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Stopping Hitler: An Official Account of How Britain Planned to Defend
After the unprecedented death and devastation of the First World War, few people imagined that such a conflict could ever happen again. Though the belief that it had been the...
Barbed Wire and Bamboo: Stories of Captivity and Escape from the 1st
This book contains a collection of stories of captivity and escape from World Wars I and II, all involving Australian soldiers. The stories tell of capture, imprisonment and escape -...
The Day Peace Broke Out: The VE-Day Experience
The day peace broke out. At 3 p.m. on 8 May 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a long-awaited speech in which he officially declared the war in Europe to...
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight
Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth died, she left Rachel...
The Second World War Illustrated: The Final Year
The Second World War Illustrated: The Final Year follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the...
Corsair: Vought's F4U in World War II and Korea
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The F4U Corsair, designed by Vought and produced by that firm, as well as, Goodyear and Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, would not only rack up an impressive 11:1 kill ratio against...
Out of the Depths of Hell: A Soldier's Story of Life and Death in
While the Burma railway has been well chronicled, the hell of the Kinkisaki copper mine has not been revealed until now. John McEwan was a slave labourer, working naked in...
World War 11 Raf Airfieldsin Norfolk
As part of the "AHT" series, this book covers airfields in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Yorkshire and Northamptonshire. 12 Group was formed in 1937 within Fighter Command to become responsible for aerial...
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...