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Journal
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...
Among the Headhunters: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival
Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the...
Frontline and Experimental Flying With the Fleet Air Arm
The spectacle of Alan Cobham's Flying Circus and the Fleet at anchor in Weymouth inspired the author's lifelong passion for airplanes, flying and the Royal Navy . World War Two...
A Soldier's Story
D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris, the relentless drive through Germany toward Allied victory--Omar Bradley, the "GI General," was there for every major engagement in the...
New Guinea Engineer: The Memoirs of Les Bell MBE, Silent Key -- VK4LZ
As the new Scout District Commissioner, he officiated in welcomes to the then Queensland Head Scout Governor Henry Abel Smith, and Lady May. Les died -- on 11 December 2000...
You Never Know Your Luck: Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: The
The true story of one of the men who took part in the famous Great Escape. When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the...
Conqueror's Road
The book titled Conqueror's Road by the author Osmar White. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Resolute: To War with Bomber Command
The Second World War biography of Bomber Command pilot George Dunn DFC L d'H and flight engineer Ferris Newton DFM. Bomber Command pilot George Dunn DFC L d'H completed forty-four...
Combat Crew: The Story of 25 Missions Over North West Europe
Arriving at Ridgewell Air Base in Cambrideshire in July 1943, at a time when the loss rate for bomber crews was at its highest during the war, John Comer miraculously...
The Moon Seems Upside Down: Letters of love and war
The war letters of Arthur Alan Mitchell 1939-45. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Alan Mitchell was a foreman at McPherson's bolt factory in Richmond. Eileen Griffin was...
The Ross Gregory Story
At 20 years of age, Ross Gregory was selected to play cricket for Australia. He went on to play alongside Bradman before enlisting in the RAAF and serving in England...
Flight to Arras
The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the...
The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British
The book titled The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British by the author Anthony Cave Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Voice of War: The Second World War Told by Those Who Fought It
The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts...
Signaller Johnston's Secret War: New Guinea 1943-45: New Guinea
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Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
No Surrender in Burma: Operations Behind Japanese Lines, Captivity and
This is the extraordinary true story of a British Commando in Burma who, cut off behind enemy lines, walked 2,000 miles towards India and freedom in 1942, but was betrayed...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak
On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson...
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 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...
A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MARGARET AND COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LESLIE AND SOPHIE CAPLAN AWARD FOR JEWISH NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 AGE NON-FICTION BOOK OF...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour "Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson "This fascinating...
I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless
'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of...
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris - 80th
80th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Produced in collaboration with Imperial War Museums Relive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign...
The Bells of Nagasaki
A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of one of the most infamous events in history- the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. 'A book that everyone should read' The Times A harrowing, heart-rending...
Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our
'That nickname . . .' '"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't...
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen - Winner of the
Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up...
Hitlers Death: Russia's Last Great Secret
At last one of the greatest mysteries of the Second World War has been solved. Since historian Hugh Trevor-Roper made his name with the publication of "Hitler's Last Days", it...
Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story
'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed? '- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 2024...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi
The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and bringing his tormentors to justice. **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**...
The Jungle is Neutral: The World Famous True Story of Guerilla Warfare
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"The Jungle is Neutral" is British soldier, Spencer Chapman's incredible story of his three and a half years in the Malayan jungle during World War II. A moving unforgettable saga...
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor J zsef Debreczeni A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first...
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...
Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor
Narrated with the heartbreaking innocence of a thirteen-year-old girl and the wisdom of a woman of eighty-two, Gazing at the Stars is a record of survival in the face of...
I Must Belong Somewhere: An extraordinary family tale of survival
'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, fled the Russian threat in Ukraine for Vienna in 1914. Blinded in the First World War, he...
Hostage of the Third Reich: The Story of My Imprisonment and Rescue
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In the fall of 1944, Fey von Hassell, the 24-year-old wife of Italian Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli, was seized by the SS at her villa at Brazza near Venice and shuttled by...
Indian Diary and Album
The Ministry of Information's decision to send society photographer Cecil Beaton to the Far East to record the Allied war effort during World War II might have raised a few...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the...
I Knew Hitler: The Lost Testimony by a Survivor from the Night of the Long Knives
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Heroes All
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
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The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob
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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor J zsef Debreczeni A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first...