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Hostage of the Third Reich: The Story of My Imprisonment and Rescue

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...
Defying Hitler: A Memoir

Defying Hitler: A Memoir

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Sebastian Haffner was a non-Jewish German who emigrated to England in 1938. This memoir (written in 1939 but not published until now) begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

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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

I Knew Hitler: The Lost Testimony by a Survivor from the Night of the Long Knives

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Heroes All

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

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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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

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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...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

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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...
Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

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The heartbreaking diary of a young Polish-Jewish girl who lived through the early days of the Holocaust, recently rediscovered after seventy years. Introduction by Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of Denial...
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

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The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback 'Insistently asks the question- What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Written by a Communist insider, a candid portrait of one of the most dangerous men in history This extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held with Stalin during and...
Going Solo

Going Solo

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Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. It was truly the...
Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home

Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home

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The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not...
White Butterflies

White Butterflies

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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

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Journeys into Night

Journeys into Night

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The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story

The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life

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With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story

Finding Home: A Windrush Story

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On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism

Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the [...]

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The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

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A Guest of the Emperor

A Guest of the Emperor

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I Kept on Dancing: A Life's Journey from Nazi Germany to the Lucky Country

I Kept on Dancing: A Life's Journey from Nazi Germany to the Lucky Country

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The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

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Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour.

SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour.

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio 'A convincing insight into the terror and adrenaline rush of war'...
Among You Taking Notes...

Among You Taking Notes...

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Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
Diary of a Girl in Changi, 1941-45

Diary of a Girl in Changi, 1941-45

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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

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The Keeper of Miracles

The Keeper of Miracles

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Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller

Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller

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The Diary of Petr Ginz

The Diary of Petr Ginz

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SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child SAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold...
My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters

My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters

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The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity

The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity

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Charles 'Bud' Tingwell's War Stories: The Heroes, the Battles, the Tragedies and the Triumphs of World War II

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell's War Stories: The Heroes, the Battles, the Tragedies and the Triumphs of World War II

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The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

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Author: Alexander Larman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

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Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates...
The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family

The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family

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Author: Jackie Kohnstamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life....
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

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Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated...
Call Me Corp

Call Me Corp

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The Happiest Man on Earth: Illustrated Edition

The Happiest Man on Earth: Illustrated Edition

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Unbroken

Unbroken

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Scholars Of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

Scholars Of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

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Author: Daniel C. Guiet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German...