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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

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Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
Hitler's Air Defences

Hitler's Air Defences

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Author: Stephen Wynn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 The first Allied bombing raid on Berlin during the course of the Second World War, took place on 7 June 1940,...
How the RAF beat the Luftwaffe

How the RAF beat the Luftwaffe

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Author: Ken Delve Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "The Luftwaffe had to be used in a decisive way in the Battle of Britain as a means of conducting total...
Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

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Author: Nicholas Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection "Need to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the...
Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945

Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945

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Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest...
American Airline's Secret War in China: Project Seven Alpha, WWII

American Airline's Secret War in China: Project Seven Alpha, WWII

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Author: Leland Shanle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 244 In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonised over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia; they seemed unstoppable....
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
Hitler's Revenge Weapons: The Final Blitz of London

Hitler's Revenge Weapons: The Final Blitz of London

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Author: Nigel Walpole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 From September 1940 until May 1941, Britain - especially Greater London - suffered heavily under a barrage of day and night-time...
The Normandy Air War 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

The Normandy Air War 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

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Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 The support provided by the Allied air armies to the preparations for the invasion of France and the Normandy campaign is...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary

Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary

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Author: David Patterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 328 This extraordinary book is based on more than fifty diaries of Jewish Holocaust victims of all ages, written while...
World War II: The Essential History, Volume 2: From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day 1943-45

World War II: The Essential History, Volume 2: From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day 1943-45

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Author: Richard Overy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this...
Fascism: A Warning

Fascism: A Warning

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Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy...
Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

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Author: Dick Lehr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as "Operation Vengeance" -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter...
Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Missions of World War II

Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Missions of World War II

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Author: Tony Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 406 What kind of courage does it take for an ordinary married couple to confront the Nazi regime of Hitler's vicious Third...
Hitler's French Volunteers

Hitler's French Volunteers

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Author: Christopher Leguerandais Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 From 1941 to 1945, a large number of foreign soldiers were incorporated into the ranks of the German army in order...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us

The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us

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Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they...
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler

An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler

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Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A profoundly significant exploration of how Europeans--both Germans and those under German occupation--struggled to make sense of the conflict.' - Richard...
Night

Night

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Author: Elie Wiesel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

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Author: Jonathan Petropoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose...
Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness

Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness

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Author: Niklas Zetterling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 450 A revised and updated single-source reference book which accurately details the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their...
White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler

White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler

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Author: Tom Dunkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich...
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

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Author: Judy Batalion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and...
MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51

MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51

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Author: Bill Yenne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his...
Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill

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Author: Brian Lett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War there were sizeable Fascist groups active in Britain, working to overthrow...
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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Author: Hans Fallada Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants...
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

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Author: Eva Schloss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless...
Japan Triumphant: The Far East Campaign 1941-1942

Japan Triumphant: The Far East Campaign 1941-1942

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Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 The Japanese offensive in the Far East in 1941-2 was extraordinary in its ambition for their aim was to advance across...
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so...
Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio

Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio

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Author: Flint Whitlock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The Allied landings at Anzio, on the Italian coast, six months before the Normandy invasion were intended as an "end run"...
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hitlist

The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hitlist

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Author: Sybil Oldfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis' first priority in the...
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle

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Author: Iain MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative'...
Night Hunter's Prey: The Lives and Deaths of an RAF Gunner and a Luftwaffe Pilot

Night Hunter's Prey: The Lives and Deaths of an RAF Gunner and a Luftwaffe Pilot

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Author: Iain Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This is the story of two airmen - an RAF Rear Gunner and a Luftwaffe Pilot. Alexander Ollar was raised in...
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

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Author: Hans-Adolf Jacobsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 First published in 1958, this first German perspective account of Dunkirk is available in English for the first time. The German...
The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War

The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War

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Author: Benjamin Carter Hett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war...
The Changi Brownlow: An inspirational story of the Aussie spirit

The Changi Brownlow: An inspirational story of the Aussie spirit

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Roland Perry Format: Paperback...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

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Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
In Action with Destroyers 1939 1945: The Wartime Memoirs of Commander J A J Dennis DSC RN

In Action with Destroyers 1939 1945: The Wartime Memoirs of Commander J A J Dennis DSC RN

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Author: Alec Dennis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 My Destroyer War is a superbly written and exciting eye-witness account of the war at sea from 1939 to 1945. There...
Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

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Author: Linda Kinstler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back...
Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany

Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany

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Author: Mark Roseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help...
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

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Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the 'British-Indian Thermopylae'

Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the 'British-Indian Thermopylae'

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Author: Leslie Edwards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of...
On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

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Author: Jon Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of...
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945

Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945

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Author: Steven K Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bold Venture tells an important and riveting untold wartime story of the American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong...
Siege of Brest 1941

Siege of Brest 1941

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Author: Rostislav Aliev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 235 On 22 June 1941, soon after 3am, the first German shells smashed into the Soviet frontier fortress of Brest Hitler's Operation...