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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

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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...
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

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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...
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

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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

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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

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

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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

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....
Born Survivors: The Incredible True Story Of Three Pregnant Mothers And Their Courage Determination

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 / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

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

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

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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 -...
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

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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 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

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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...
SS Totenkopf Division at War: History of the Division

SS Totenkopf Division at War: History of the Division

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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...
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

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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...
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

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

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...
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

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...
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

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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...
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

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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...
Inside The Third Reich

Inside The Third Reich

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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...
Auschwitz: A History

Auschwitz: A History

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Author: Sybille Steinbacher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A short, devastating study of history's most notorious killing ground At the terrible heart of the modern age lies...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

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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)

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

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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

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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

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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

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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...
Borderland A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

Borderland A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

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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,...
Photo Nomad

Photo Nomad

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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

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 Choice: A true story of hope

The Choice: A true story of hope

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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...
The Complete MAUS

The Complete MAUS

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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

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

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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

Secret and Special

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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

Mein Kampf

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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...
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

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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,...
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year

Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year

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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...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

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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

Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

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

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

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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

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

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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...
War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943

War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943

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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...
An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy

An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy

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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...
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

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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

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

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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....
Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

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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...