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Shared Sorrows: A Gypsy Family Remembers the Holocaust
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On morning after Kristalnacht Toby Sonneman's father walked through broken glass to collect the visa from the US consulate in Stuttgart which saved him from the fate suffered by other...
The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45: A Photographic Chronology
Taking a chronological approach, this work looks at key battles, such as the great encirclement engagements of 1941 - Minsk, Smolensk and Kiev - the sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad,...
Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi Brand
Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued...
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime
This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not...
The Blitz - an Illustrated History
The winter of 1940-41 was the season of the Blitz. From St Paul's Cathedral to the East End, from the very heart of the capital to the cities of the...
War of the U Boats Hb
From the earliest days of the Second World War, Hitler's U-Boats were unleashed with the mission of sinking as much Allied merchant tonnage as possible. From the sinking of the...
The Savage Storm: The Brutal Battle for Italy 1943
This is World War 2 in microcosm told through the brutal story of the most pivotal campaign the Allies were to fight by one of the UK's most acclaimed and...
Alchemy of a Blackbird: A Novel
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot For fans of The Age of Light and Z comes a "beguiling novel of artistic ambition, perseverance, and friendship" (Katy Hays,...
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German
Selected by General Raymond Odierno, 38th Army Chief of Staff, for the U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List, for "The Army Profession," 2012. Selected by Lieutenant General David...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered...
The Children's War: The Second World War through the eyes of the
Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, a lavishly illustrated account of how the Second World War impacted on the lives of children. This book is published to accompany...
Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber
The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of...
The Last Light over Oslo: A Novel
Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the...
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Times Best History Book of the Year; A Waterstones Best Book of the Year 'Reads like a thriller... I couldn't put Max Hastings's new...
Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II
This book is a stimulating and entirely plausible insight into how Hitler and his generals might have defeated the Allies, and a convincing sideways look at the Third Reich's bid...
Australian Women in Papua New Guinea: Colonial Passages 1920-1960
By the time Australia withdrew from Papua New Guinea in 1975, about 10,000 Australian women had lived there at some stage since 1920. Many came with their husbands who were...
Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain
This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s - a time which...
The Lost World of Bletchley Park: The Illustrated History of the
The huge success of Sinclair's The Secret Life of Bletchley Park - a quarter of a million copies sold to date - has been symptomatic of a similarly dramatic increase...
A Wedding for the Cornish Girls (The Cornish Girls Series, Book 5)
Bestselling historical fiction author Betty Walker is back with her most uplifting World War Two saga yet! Preorder Brighter Days for the Cornish Girls ! The fifth heartwarming instalment in...
The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission
December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the...
A Winter Hope: A heartwarming wintery World War II story from the
For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, A Winter Hope is a heart-warming festive novel from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Winter Baby and The...
The Tuscan Daughter
Read the brand-new heart-wrenching historical novel from Tessa Harris, The Florence Sisters , now! 'If you're a fan of WWII historical fiction [and] a courageous woman not willing to settle...
The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's secret plan to save Jews from the Nazis
This revelatory account of how the Vatican saved thousands of Jews during the Second World War shows why history must re-assess 'Hitler's Pope'. Accused of being 'silent' during the Holocaust,...
The Turning of the Tide 1942-44: v. 3
The Second World War Experience is a four-volume series published in association with the Imperial War Museum, covering the whole six-year global conflagration. This book charts the period when the...
Code Name Butterfly
Inspired by the incredible true story of Josephine Baker's role in the French Resistance, this is a heart-wrenching, unforgettable tale of the strength of the human spirit in the darkest...
The Midnight Hour: Twisty mystery from the bestselling author of The
**THE THRILLING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'If only all history mysteries could be as good as The Midnight Hour ' The Times An old man lies dead and it looks like...
Spy: A compulsive story of a double life from the billion copy
Spy by Danielle Steel is the page-turning story of a fearless young woman risking everything for what she believes in. It is 1939 and although she doesn't know it, it...
Strangers in Time
Charlie Matters' life has always been a fight for survival. Orphaned with no prospects, Charlie steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he can enlist in the battle against the...
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
A timely groundbreaking book in the vein of Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well , one of the country's foremost voices on reparations, offers a radical and...
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...
Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer: One Woman's Private Diary from
A gripping and important memoir by a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin's Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally...
Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Dire Warning
On 13 May 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Parliament to deliver his first speech as prime minister. German troops were advancing across Europe Neville Chamberlain's government had...
The Tuscan Daughter
Read the brand-new heart-wrenching historical novel from Tessa Harris, The Florence Sisters , now! 'If you're a fan of WWII historical fiction [and] a courageous woman not willing to settle...
Wartime Wishes at Bletchley Park (The Bletchley Park Girls, Book 3)
Bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green is back with her most engrossing, heartfelt World War Two saga yet, The Wartime Librarian's Secret ! Preorder now! With war raging on, there...
Start Digging, You Bastards!: Australian and New Zealand forces'
'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back,...
Never Surrender
In Never Surrender Robert Kershaw captures the authentic voices of the ordinary heroes of the Second World War, from the soldiers fighting abroad to those battling on the home front,...
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...
Ultra Goes to War
Ultra -- the code word for the greatest secret of World War II -- was the method by which the Allies intercepted German radio transmissions and broke their coded contents....
Mavis The Little Plane Spotter
Mavis is a feisty ten-year-old who lives in rural Australia with her mum, dad and sister, Doreen. It's World War Two, and Darwin is bombed. Life as she knows it...
The Boy with the Star Tattoo: A Novel
From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to...
The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert,
In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsible as the first head of SS-Einsatzkommando 9, a...
Bomber Command: Failed to Return
With an average age of just twenty-two, the young airmen of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command, all volunteers, began operating within minutes of the start of the Second World...
They Have Their Exits: the Best-selling Escape Memoir of World War Two
The author, wounded and taken prisoner in Calais in 1940 became a compulsive escaper and was the first of the very few to make a 'home-run' from Colditz Castle. Thereafter...
An Irish Country Childhood: Memories of a Bygone Age
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This is the story of a magical childhood on a farm in the west of Ireland during the 1930s and early 1940s. It tells of a young girl and the...
Bomber Command: Failed to Return
With an average age of just twenty-two, the young airmen of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command, all volunteers, began operating within minutes of the start of the Second World...
The Woman Who Censored Churchill
Ruth Ive will be appearing as part of Jewish Book Week on 1st March 2010 Click here to see details on the Jewish Book Week website http://www.jewishbookweek.com/ During the Second...
The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
This is a classic survey of US foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term, now fully revised.