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One of Our Submarines
The Wordsworth Military Library covers the breadth of military history, including studies of individual leaders and accounts of major campaigns and great conflicts.
The Second World War In Photographs
"If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then The Second World War in Photographs would be the most compendious war history yet..." The Daily Mail As we approach the 70th...
The Words Of War
For this remarkable anthology, the Imperial War Museum has opened its vast archive of some 1,300 personal diaries written by ordinary men and woman who fought, and in some cases...
Okinawa 1945: The Last Island Before the Bomb
The gripping tale of the last great battle of the Second World War. As the siege of Stalingrad was the ultimate scene of carnage at the Eastern Front, the battle...
The Girl from the Channel Islands
An evocative, beautifully written story of a young Jewish woman trapped on the occupied island of Jersey during World War II. SUMMER 1940: Hedy Bercu watches the skies over Jersey...
Sherman: The M4 Tank in World War II
Fully illustrated, exceptionally detailed account of the development and deployment of the M4 Sherman in World War II. The Medium Tank, M4, better known to the British as the Sherman,...
The Yellow Bird Sings
Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Roza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer's barn. Forbidden from making a...
Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer's Life
'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLAND Barnes Wallis became a household name after the hit...
Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed
On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents...
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter . 'Remarkable' - Guardian Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia...
The New Detective
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Willi Geismeier thought he'd faced the worst of humanity on the battlefield in World War I , but when he returns to Munich he is drawn into an investigation that...
The Making of Auschwitz: The Largest Killing Factory of all time
Commemorating 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, this book tells the story of the camp's construction and its evolution into the largest mass murder factory of all time. Using...
Flying American Combat Aircraft of World War II: 1939-45
From bombing raids in the flak-filled skies over Germany and Japan to cargo runs above the snowy Himalayas and wheeling dogfights in nimble fighters, American aircraft contributed to victory in...
G-2: Intelligence for Patton: Intelligence for Patton
The enigmatic science of military intelligence is examined in this personal record, written by Brig.Gen. Oscar W. Koch, who served during World War II as chief of intelligence for General...
Commandos: Heroic and Deadly ANZAC Raids in World War II
Australian and New Zealand special forces are renowned for their bravery, their skill and their sense of duty - so much so that World War II Allied commanders turned to...
The Klemperer Diaries: v.2: To the Bitter End, 1942-45
Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to own pets....
Fritz and Kurt
The incredible true story of The Boy Who Followed his Father into Auschwitz, written for younger readers. When everything is taken away from you, love and courage are all you...
The Avengers
'Gripping and even inspiring' Sunday Times When they were not yet twenty years old three young Jews left their families in Western Poland and came to the Lithuanian ghetto of...
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost
When a cargo plane goes missing over the Greenland ice cap in November 1942, a B-17 is dispatched on a perilous search-and-rescue mission that ends in disaster when the plane...
Secret Spitfires: Britain's Hidden Civilian Army
September 1940: In the midst of the Second World War, the Luftwaffe unleashed a series of devastating raids on Southampton, all but destroying its spitfire factories. But production didn't stop....
The Last Secret Agent: The Extraordinary Story of a WW2 Spy in Her Own
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Vivid, honest, inspiring and sometimes shocking, Pippa Latour's memoir shows how right the SOE were to assess her as having '"tons of guts"' -CLARE MULLEY, author of...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
Luftwaffe Bombers vs British AA Defences: Britain 1940-41
An illustrated study of the British Army's Anti-Aircraft (AA) Command's performance against the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. When the Battle of Britain commenced in July...
Crusader vs M13/40: North Africa 1941-42
This illustrated study assesses the British Crusader and the Italian M13/40, two medium tanks that played crucial roles in World War II's Desert War. Making its combat debut in North...
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...
Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard
The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history, destroying a naval fleet, killing over a thousand crew members,...
Return to Midway: The Quest to Find the Lost Ships from the Greatest
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Dr Robert Ballard's challenge for this work was to discover and photograph the ships sunk in the Battle of Midway, one of the most dramatic engagements of the Pacific War....
The Journal of Helene Berr: A Young Jewish Woman's Life in Occupied
From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text...
The Paris Daughter: Two mothers. Two daughters. Two families torn
A heartwrenching and evocative wartime novel, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Rachel Hore and Lucinda Riley. Two mothers. Two daughters. Two families torn apart forever. Paris, 1939. Elise and...
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War
Britain's first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain. Often eclipsed...
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend: From Formation to the Battle of
Packed with photographs, maps and profiles, this Casemate Illustrated title follows the actions of the infamous 12th SS Panzer Division 'Hitlerjugend' throughout its existence. Created in 1943 from members of...
The Longest Campaign: Britain's Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and
A complete account of the British maritime contribution to victory in World War II. For four centuries the British realm depended upon sea power to defend its interest and independence...
East West Street: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'A monumental achievement:...
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding
Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research...
The Myth Of The Blitz
The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humour, understatement and the ability...
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and...
The Klemperer Diaries: v. 1: I Shall Bear Witness, 1933-41
The diaries of a Jew in Nazi Germany; the most important documnet to emerge from the period since the publication of The Diary Of Anne Frank.The first of two volumes,...
Finnish Aces of World War 2
Always outnumbered by their Soviet counterparts, the small band of Finnish fighter pilots who defended their Scandinavian homeland from the 'communist hordes' in three separate wars between 1939 and 1945...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
Aircraft Of WWII
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Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one...
The Wind Knows My Name: A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick
* ORDER MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE NOW - THE CAPTIVATING NEW NOVEL FROM ISABEL ALLENDE * A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'A testament to love, survival...
Warships in the Komandorski Islands 1943: The USN and IJN fight the
With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed....
The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of World War II
This atlas explores the causes, course and consequences of World War II. Clear maps and diagrams are accompanied by a facing page of explanatory text addressing not just battles and...
Under Fire
Join 12-year-old Anglo-Indian boy Hasan in 1943, after his family's life in Coventry is upturned during the Blitz and his parents send him to live with his grandpa in Calcutta....
Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...
B-29 Superfortress vs Japanese Nightfighter: Japan 1944-45
An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home Islands from 1944-45. The USAAF's B-29-led strategic bombing offensive against...