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Forgotten Tragedy: The Sinking of HMT "Rohna"
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This book recounts for the first time the tragic loss of more than 1,000 American soldiers in 1943 when their troopship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.
Debs at War: 1939-1945
Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them,...
Backroom Boys: Personal Stories of Britain's Air War 1939-45
What was it like, making history? What sense did these individuals have of what they were doing, either at the time or later? Did they feel they were caught up...
Bullet Proof
FIVE TOURS OF DUTY. ONE HEROIC ACT. SECONDS FROM DEATH... AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2008- in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces and thousands of...
D-Day Normandy: The Story and Photographs
Features more than four hundred American, Allied, and German photographs that present the dramatic events of the invasion from both sides.
Dear Joan
Dear Joan comprises a unique series of letters between a young airman, Tony Ross, and Joan Charles, a girl he met briefly in England before he was posted to the...
Churchill 1940-1945: Under Friendly Fire
In April 1945 Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without...
Austria in World War II: An Anglo-American Dilemma
Not only does Keyserlingk show that Great Britain and the US recognized the Anschluss both in fact and in law throughout the war, he also reveals the growing importance of...
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World
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"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." -- Eleanor Roosevelt,...
Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb
Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
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To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. Endgame 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women,...
The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz
How can an unlikely band of brothers escape hell when there's a traitor in their midst? Colditz has become an almost mythic symbol of perseverance, resourcefulness, and strength. The prisoners...
Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced
'Facing Armageddon' is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real nature of the participants' experience. The book is a...
Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War
For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone...
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
The Falklands War: An Imperial History
Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival...
Wives and Sweethearts: Love Letters Sent During Wartime
What is it like to fall in love with a soldier? What is it like to be a soldier in love? Throughout history, those serving in the British Army have...
Sandstealers
Ever wondered what it is like to work in a war zone? `We live more in one year than most people do in a lifetime,' is Danny Lowenstein's simple retort....
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S.
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. "An amazingly detailed account of fighting in...
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES
Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering....
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES
Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering....
Downing Street: The War Years - Diaries, Letters and a Memoir
In 1940 John Martin was appointed Private Secretary to Winston Churchill. He remained at Churchill's side throughout the war and was promoted, in May 1941, to Principal Private Secretary. During...
My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the
As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief...
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
This "historical page-turner of the highest order" ( The Wall Street Journal ) tells the chilling, little-known story of an American-born Soviet spy in the atom bomb project during World...
Leading from the Front An autobiography
As Chief of the General Staff, Sir Richard Dannatt was in overall command of the British army for the three years from 2006. This period saw some of the fiercest...
Lucky Johnny: The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps
In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he...
Air War for Burma: The Third and Concluding Volume of The Bloody
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In his monumental work Bloody Shambles, Volume Two, Christopher Shores described in detail the British retreat out of Burma, culminating at the end of May 1942. The monsoon then brought...
Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
These personal responses to war in Iraq and Afghanistan have been selected from War, Literature & the Arts Journal to mark the thirtieth anniversary of its inaugural publication. In Quagmire...
You'll Die in Singapore
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Ve Day - a Day to Remember
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Two Journeys into Peril: Wartime Letters of Ken and Ron Sillcock, 1941-1945
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American Pimpernel: The Man Who Saved the Artists on Hitler's Death List
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The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and Australian troops lifted when they were told that...
Heroes All
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Diary of a Wartime Naval Constructor: Sir Stanley Goodall
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Dunkirk to D-Day: A Commando's War
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Sister Sister
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Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration
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Unit 731: Japanese Army's Secret of Secrets
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War Diaries: The Mediterranean, 1943-45
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South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer
A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...