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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

$15.00
Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

$34.99$12.00
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new...
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff

The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff

$15.00
Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief...
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942

The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942

$32.99$12.00
Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 364 Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of...
Derrick VC in his own words: The wartime writings of Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II

Derrick VC in his own words: The wartime writings of Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II

$39.99$15.00
Author: Mark Johnston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM was Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won...
At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45

At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45

$49.99$20.00
Author: Peter Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through...
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II

The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II

$15.00
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account....
Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

$14.99$12.74
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned -...
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

$22.99$19.54
Author: Norman Ohler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage...
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

$59.99$15.00
Author: Chris Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Riveting." --The New York Times * "Propulsive." --Time * "Reads like a tense thriller." --The Washington Post...
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

$15.00
Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown...
The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

$15.00
Author: Norman Ohler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "A detailed and meticulously researched tale... that reads like a thriller."--New York Times Book Review From the New York Times best-selling...
The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia

The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia

$15.00
Author: Stephan Talty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Inspiration for the hit new podcast "Hunting the Butcher" The untold story of an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring the...
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945

Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945

$29.99$12.00
Author: Lee Eric Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch...
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller

The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller

$36.99$15.00
Author: Judy Batalion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands 'A fascinating history about a little-known group who...
Inside The Third Reich

Inside The Third Reich

$26.99$12.00
Author: Albert Speer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 832 'Inside the Third Reich' is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the...
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

$15.00
Author: Roger Moorhouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 An "exemplary" (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II For Americans, World War II began...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

$24.99$21.24
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler

An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler

$43.99$17.50
Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

$34.99$12.00
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

$49.99$20.00
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
The Complete MAUS

The Complete MAUS

$36.99$31.44
Author: Art Spiegelman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 2016 is the 30th anniversary of Maus - the million-selling, Pulitzer-winning, father-son memoir about the Holocaust 'A quiet triumph,...
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

$15.00
Author: John Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send...
Borderland A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

Borderland A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

$26.99$12.00
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium,...
Goebbels

Goebbels

$29.99$25.49
Author: Peter Longerich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 A revelatory biography of Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, from renowned German Holocaust historian Peter Longerich. Joseph Goebbels was one...
Photo Nomad

Photo Nomad

$49.95$15.00
Author: David Douglas Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life...
The Choice: A true story of hope

The Choice: A true story of hope

$24.99$21.24
Author: Edith Eger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Even...
Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II

Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II

$39.99$15.00
Author: Ian Sayer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them...
SS Totenkopf Division at War: History of the Division

SS Totenkopf Division at War: History of the Division

$39.99$20.00
Author: Ian Baxter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 142 The SS Totenkopf (Death Head) Division even 70 years on retains its formidable and ruthless reputation as a superbly efficient yet...
Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

$59.99$50.99
Author: Adolf Hitler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during...
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II

Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II

$22.99$19.54
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the incredible true story of one of the most audacious and...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

$39.99$15.00
Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
Strong to Serve: An Australian Spitfire Pilot's war over Europe

Strong to Serve: An Australian Spitfire Pilot's war over Europe

$32.99$15.00
Author: Joseph Mack Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 364 Following training in Australia, Canada and the UK, Fred Riley flew Spitfires with No 130 (Punjab) Squadron RAF from October 1943...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

$24.99$21.24
Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War

The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War

$75.00$25.00
Author: Boris Kavalerchik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 193 The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a...
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year

Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year

$22.99$19.54
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

$24.99$21.24
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

$22.99$19.54
Author: Viktor E Frankl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Now reissued by Rider, one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War,...
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945

Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945

$12.00
Author: Saul David Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of...
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War

$34.99$12.00
Author: Catherine Grace Katz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating...
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

$15.00
Author: Max Hastings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to...
War and Peace: Fdr's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945

War and Peace: Fdr's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945

$15.00
Author: Nigel Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he...
War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943

War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943

$32.99$12.00
Author: Peter Harmsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories...
The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy

The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy

$45.00$20.00
Author: Catherine Hickley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of art....
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45

The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45

$27.99$23.79
Author: Nicholas Stargardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The first social history of Germany during the Second World War for over forty years WINNER OF THE 2016...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

$22.99$19.54
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the...
Prelude to War: The RAF, 1936-1939: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Prelude to War: The RAF, 1936-1939: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

$49.99$15.00
Author: Martin Derry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Through the use of contemporary photographs and informative captions, "Prelude To War: The RAF 1936-1939" chronicles many of the RAF's aircraft...
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble

Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble

$24.99$21.24
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The No. 1 Bestseller- Hitler's ill-fated final stand, from the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day. From the...