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Part of a series telling the complete story of the Second World War.
Germans Against Hitler: The Stauffenberg Plot and Resistance Under the
Those Germans, such as Count Claus von Stauffenberg, who fought the Third Reich from within have often been mythologised as heroes in the fight against tyranny but the truth is...
Britain at War 1939-1945
This is a salute to those who fought in the forces and on many fronts, recalling days of hardship and loss, but also the forging of life-long friendships and community...
The Fuhrer
Journalist Konrad Heiden was one of the first to recognize the young Adolf Hitler's political ingenuity and his potential. In this eyewitness account of his rise to power, the author...
Kill the Fuhrer: Section X and Operation Foxley
During the Second World War, Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive plotted to assassinate Hitler. A small department of SOE known as Section X had the tantalisingly complex task of...
Tobruk: The Great Siege 1941-42
The siege of Tobruk was the longest in British military history. The coastal fortress and deep-water port was of crucial importance to the battle for North Africa, and the key...
Kokoda Trail for Dummies
Everything you need to know about the Kokoda Trail and its place in Australian history Interest in the Kokoda Trail is growing rapidly among many Australians, both for its attraction...
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary...
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the...
Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler
When the Second World War broke out, Philipp von Boeselager fought enthusiastically for his country, leading a cavalry unit first in France and later on the Russian Front. However, when...
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...
Blitz Kids: True Stories from the Children of Wartime Britain to
Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day '[The] stories are every bit as dramatic as those from the front lines and Barrett and Calvi have done an incredible...
Blitz Kids: True Stories from the Children of Wartime Britain to
Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day '[The] stories are every bit as dramatic as those from the front lines and Barrett and Calvi have done an incredible...
Tragedy at Evian: How the World Allowed Hitler to Proceed with the
In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vital conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European...
The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful
'Really outstanding' Jonathan Dimbleby At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by...
Outbreak: 1939
11-15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months- This morning the British Ambassador...
The Silent Service: The Inside Story of the Royal Navy's Submarine
One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft....
Philip Larkin: Selected Letters
The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work.The Selected Letters will...
The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution
'Massive, groundbreaking new research that sheds more truth on the Holocaust.' - Helen Fry Never told in detail before, this is the account of how, for four years, British and...
The British Army Handbook 1939-1945
To encapsulate the British Army in one book is no easy task, but here, George Forty presents it as it was during the Second World War. When war was declared...
The Macmillan Dictionary of the Second World War
This is a comprehensive guide to World War II. More than 1600 detailed entries - together with 15 maps and a series of front-by-front chronologies - cover every aspect of...
Japan's War
The book titled Japan's War by the author Edwin P. Hoyt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Second World War: A Miscellany
Have you ever wondered... Who was the deadliest sniper of the war? How low did the Dambusters fly? How many ships were sunk at Pearl Harbor? Telling the stories of...
The Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the music of the camps to
For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and...
Blitz Kids: True Stories from the Children of Wartime Britain to
Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day '[The] stories are every bit as dramatic as those from the front lines and Barrett and Calvi have done an incredible...
The Spider Covenant
On 10 August 1944, with Germany on the verge of a crushing and humiliating defeat, Heinrich Himmler, the second most powerful Nazi and head of the notorious SS, holds a...
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler -
A bold revisionist history exploring the impact of WW1 on the mindsets and strategic decisions of WW2's most important leaders In THE STRATEGISTS, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the...
The Second World War
'Simply the ultimate Second World War history'- SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, DAILY TELEGRAPH A CONFLICT LIKE NO OTHER , it has come to define the very idea of war itself. Great...
D-Day to VE Day: The Final Year of the War in Europe
On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come...
England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42
Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent...
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day
Through compelling eye-witness testimony and renowned historian James Holland's expert analysis Brothers In Arms brings to vivid life the final bloody scramble across Europe from the powerful perspective of one...
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France
From established historian James Holland, this is the top ten bestselling and second biggest history book of 2019. 'A devastating new account..Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military...
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...
A Short History of World War II
A reformatted, monochrome edition of World War II in a classic Royal hardback format Discover the story of the world's deadliest war. Combining expert historical insight with accounts of combatants...
Her Side of the Story
'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...
England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42
Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent...
The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution
'Massive, groundbreaking new research that sheds more truth on the Holocaust.' - Helen Fry Never told in detail before, this is the account of how, for four years, British and...
Opening The Gates of Hell: The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man
Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945. He kept his story from the world until...
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...
A History of Soviet Civilization
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The book titled A History of Soviet Civilization by the author Andrei Sinyavsky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Letters From Iwo Jima: The Japanese Eyewitness Stories That Inspired
Clint Eastwood was so moved by this account of the Japanese defence of Iwo Jima that he ended up making two films in 2006. Flags of Our Fathers, based on...
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership
Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders- both in what they stood for and in the way in which they seemed to lead. Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts...
The Flames of Calais
A reissue of Airey Neave's controversial account of the last-ditch stand that preceded Dunkirk. It was a battle in which only 60 British soldiers of the 3000 defending Calais on...
Voices in Flight: RAF Night Operations
"The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the air. The Fighters...
The East Coast Main Line 1939-1959
The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a series of chapters. In the first...
A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish
In prose as beautiful as it is powerful, Rita Gabis follows the trail of her grandfather's collaboration with the Nazis--a trail riddled with secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery. Rita Gabis...