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The Colditz Story
Colditz was the last step for prisoners of war in World War II. An impregnable fortress, it was to Colditz that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in...
The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler
Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munich - namely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression and makes inevitable a larger war - American presidents...
Men Behind Monty
'The Men Behind Monty' examines the role played by the personal staff in the victorious campaigns of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Britain's most successful field commander since the Duke of...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
SAS Nazi Hunters
'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear Grylls SAS NAZI HUNTERS is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most...
Working for Victory: A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory
During the Second World War over 1.5 million of women found themselves thrust into a male working world, having to learn new skills within a matter of weeks. Their contribution...
Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War
In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War. This volume also includes appendices, an index, maps and diagrams. Winston Churchill's...
Closing the Ring: The Second World War
In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War. This volume also includes appendices, an index, maps and diagrams. Winston Churchill's...
The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War
In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War. This volume also includes appendices, an index, maps and diagrams. Winston Churchill's...
Japan's War: Hirohito's Holy War Against the West
'A superbly revealing account of a dreadful and profoundly sad war' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'T his extraordinary book gives us a unique insight into why and how Japan fought such an...
A Death in Berlin: A gripping new World War 2 thriller from the
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'...
A Mother's Hope: the heartwarming new emotional family saga novel for
THE BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM MAGGIE MASON, AUTHOR OF THE HALFPENNY GIRLS AND THE FORTUNE TELLERS She'll do anything to protect her family from war . . . BLACKPOOL, 1914 Seventeen-year-old...
Wink, Murder: a Bletchley Park Mystery
A gripping new Bletchley Park Mystery novel, from Rhian Tracey, author of I, SPY and HIDE AND SEEK. Mary has a gift for languages and codes that has brought her...
The Second World War
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian. The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
Japan's War: Hirohito's Holy War Against the West
'A superbly revealing account of a dreadful and profoundly sad war' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'T his extraordinary book gives us a unique insight into why and how Japan fought such an...
A Death in Berlin: A gripping new World War 2 thriller from the
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'...
The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful
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 the top-secret Manhattan Project...
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...
Horribly Famous: Winston Churchill and his Woeful Wars
You ve probably heard of Winston Churchill He's the one who raised his fingers in a V sign and smoked a massive cigar. Inside: Ge to know the man behind...
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...
A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the
'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...
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women...
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women...
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women...
Agent Zo: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025: 'A masterfully written biography... inspiring and powerful' 'Gripping, moving and important' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading'...
Edith's Story: The true story of how one young girl escaped the
THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE YOUNG GIRL ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST 'It holds you with the same intensity as The Diary of Anne Frank and leaves you heart-broken, illuminated,...
Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at...
Fascism: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)
These concise guides are an antidote to confusion, tracing major political ideas from their origins to today's headlines. Hitler's salute. Mussolini's glare. The swastika. The jackboot. These symbols of fascism's...
Bonzo's War: Animals Under Fire 1939 -1945
What was it like to be a dog or cat when the world was at war? When food was rationed and cities were bombed? Pets (on the whole) do not...
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War
Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique responsibility to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The...
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...
Four Packs to Freedom
The book titled Four Packs to Freedom by the author Basil Brudenell-Woods. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and
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The book titled Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and by the author Janina Bauman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Britain Between the Wars, 1918-40
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The book titled Britain Between the Wars, 1918-40 by the author C. L. Mowat. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of One of World War II's Most
In the tradition of Band of Brothers and Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad, Donovan Webster's The Burma Road vividly recreates one of the astonishing and important events of the Second World War...
Time at War: a memoir
Nicholas Mosley, son of Oswald Mosley and his first wife, is an admired novelist, most famous for Accident , filmed by Joseph Losey from a Harold Pinter screenplay and starring...
The Dressmaker's Secret
'Extraordinary... Brought history alive on the page... Tense and emotional... Sensitive yet brutal...With the most unexpected end that left me breathless. Wow, just wow... Incredible' NetGalley Review, 1941, Nazi-occupied Paris:...
Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941
Did the arms race of the 1930s cause the Second World War? In Cry Havoc, historian Joseph Maiolo shows, in rich and fascinating detail, how the deadly game of the...
Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into War
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The book titled Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into War by the author James Rusbridger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
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...
World at War
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Discover all you need to know about World War I and II in this enthralling account of the greatest wars the world has seen. Complete with authentic and striking photography...
An Eyewitness History of World War II
Among the eyewitness testimonies included are those of Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Charles Lindbergh, James Farmer, John Steinbeck, George Marshall, James A. Michener, Douglas MacArthur, and...
Turning the Tide: Decisive Battles of the Second World War
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Arcturus Military Classics discuss the strategies, tactics and weapons of the two World Wars, and vividly bring to life how these were employed on the battlefields of Europe, North Africa...
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the
THE NEW BOOK THE TRAITORS CIRCLE COMING SOON FROM JONATHAN FREEDLAND SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE, RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE...