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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...
The Comfort of Ghosts: Maisie Dobbs returns for a final time in the
London, 1945. The capital is the backdrop for many struggling with demons unleashed by the recent World War. Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the story of a group of squatters,...
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...
MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World
A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military...
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,...
The Guns of Muschu: The Story of the One Australian Who Survived the
During the night of 11 April 1945, eight Australian Z Special commandos landed on Japanese-held Muschu Island, off the coast of New Guinea. Their mission was to reconnoitre the island's...
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,...
Code Name Bananas
Go back in time with No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams for a whizz-bang epic adventure of action, laughter and secret plots - and the extraordinary friendship between a little...
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 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....
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders
**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to...
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...
The Battle of Britain: Portraits of the Few
'The Battle of Britain: Portraits of the Few' is an exceptional tribute to the small group of legendary pilots that served with the Royal Air Force through one of the...
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...
Eclipse
An eye-witness account of the allied invasion of Fortress Europe in World War II. Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead's book...
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...
France, 1814-1940
The history of 19th and early 20th century France has often seemed complex and confusing. "France, 1814-1940" presents a an authoritative account of this fascinating period. It describes the characteristics...
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.
Sword: D-Day - Trial by Battle
'The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword , Hastings's portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings...
The Meaning of the Second World War
The very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of...
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...
Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941-45
The members of the Australian battalion of Gull Force endured some of the harshest prisoner-of-war conditions of any Australian during the Second World War. In February 1942, on the remote...
The Venlo Sting: MI6's Deadly Fiasco
On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident...
While Paris Slept: A mother faces a heartbreaking choice in this
On a platform in occupied Paris, a mother whispers goodbye. It is the end. But also the beginning. Beautiful. Powerful. Unforgettable. A stunning portrait of the brutality of war and...
Ace, Marvel, Spy: A Novel of Alice Marble
"Jenni L. Walsh captures the thrill of being on the court in a vivid and detailed portrayal of Alice Marble's rise to sporting greatness, as well as her struggles to...
Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck
Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck is a study not only of the individual but also of how the British Army, Indian Army and the Empire were transformed during his long military...
Allied Victory Over Japan 1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Achieves
In 1944 with the war in Europe turning in the Allies' favour, Japan still occupied vast swathes of South East Asia and the Pacific. In Burma, the seemly unstoppable Japanese...
Alexander Schmorell: Saint of the German Resistance
At the height of World War II, a small band of students in Munich, Germany, formed a clandestine organization called the White Rose, which exposed the Nazi regime's murderous atrocities...
Paris France
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with...
The Girl with the Suitcase
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...
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade 'Wallonien' 1942-45
A Handful of Hacks
Here are some of the stories of the towering giants of World War II journalism: Wilfred Burchett, Richard Hughes, George Johnston, Alan Moorehead, Kenneth Slessor, Chester Wilmott and Lorraine Stumm....
His Finest Hours: The War Speeches of Winston Churchill
The greatest British statesman and a truly outstanding orator, Winston Churchill steered his nation through the bloodiest war in history. His famous speeches raised the morale of an anxious people...
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders
**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to...
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...
Panzer Crewman
A fully illustrated introduction to the role, and experience, of the Panzer crewman. The German Panzerwaffe ripped up the rulebooks of war that had been laid down by the grinding...
A WWII Soldier in the Pacific: During and After 1943-1945
Anyone familiar with WWII studies in the Pacific will recognize the name Eugene B. Sledge. The author, who corresponded with Sledge 30 years ago, shared the experience of serving on...