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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
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
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
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...
Derrick VC in his own words: The wartime writings of Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II
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...
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
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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
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
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
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...
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London
Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were...
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
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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...
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
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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...
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945
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 Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
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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...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
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
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
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
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...
Photo Nomad
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...
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe
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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...
The Complete MAUS
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,...
Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II
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...
Secret and Special
Author: Will Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats...
Mein Kampf
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...
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945
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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...
Prelude to War: The RAF, 1936-1939: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
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...
The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
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...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
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...
War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943
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...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
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...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 How, when it came down to it, did the Allies win the Second World War? How did they win...
Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Simon Forty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second Army until...
An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy
Author: Kate Werran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor
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...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Katyn 1940: The Documentary Evidence of the West's Betrayal
Author: Eugenia Maresch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The mass murder of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet NKVD at Katyn is one of the most shocking events of the...
War and Peace: Fdr's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945
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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...
The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy
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....
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
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...
Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor
Author: Sir James Rowland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 520 A descendant of early pioneers of New South Wales, James Rowland combined a thirst for adventure with a strong sense...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
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
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
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
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
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
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 Imperial War Museums Code-Breaking Puzzles: Can you crack the wartime codes?
Author: Imperial War Museum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Can you crack the toughest codes of the 20th century? Imperial War Museums have created a cryptographic challenge...