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'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 stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph , Five stars Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume and incinerate the...

On 12 February 1942, Singapore was just days away from its fall to the Japanese. As the city burned, hundreds of desperate people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst...

Flatlands is a homage to Paul Gallico's classic short story The Snow Goose. Freda is a twelve-year-old evacuee from East London, who has been sent away at the start of...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! ' Scarrow's Berlin is sharply drawn with closely observed detail, a place that reeks of threat and fear - and not just from the Gestapo'...

Christmas Eve, 1943. Anthony and Elva Pratt arrive in a snowy English village to run a murder mystery game - and instead discover a real murder. The Pratts had planned...

September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca . Then a shocking...

"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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'A revolutionary thriller, bildungsroman and cry of feminist frustration... Actual-work-of-genius territory' Sunday Times A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of...

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...

"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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or...

Stalinism is one of the most contentious political issues of the 20th century. Historical enquiry has in part benefited from, in part suffered from this. Controversy has stimulated research into...

The book titled Explaining Hitler by the author Ron Rosenbaum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust. For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz's...

The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author London 1941 When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn't be more different. But...

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...

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...

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.

In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...

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...

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...

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 hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at,...

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...

The book titled Paul Scott's Raj by the author Robin Moore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...

Behind the Cold War an unseen war was waged for half a century, between the secret services of East and West. By definition, this other war was invisible to the...

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.

'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...

This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes...