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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 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...
My Dear Ones One Family and the Holocaust - A Story of Enduring Hope and Love

My Dear Ones One Family and the Holocaust - A Story of Enduring Hope and Love

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Author: Jonathan Wittenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Moving - at times almost unbearably so - and fascinating' Antonia Fraser A family's story of human tenacity, faith...
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...
Katyn 1940: The Documentary Evidence of the West's Betrayal

Katyn 1940: The Documentary Evidence of the West's Betrayal

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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...
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 Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945

The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945

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Author: Catrine Clay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

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Author: Talia Lavin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 *** "One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the...
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France

Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France

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Biography, April-2021 Secondhand Author: Carmen Callil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 607 "Bad Faith "tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and con men--Louis Darquier de Pellepoix,...
Women of the Third Reich: From Camp Guards to Combatants

Women of the Third Reich: From Camp Guards to Combatants

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Author: Tim Heath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within...
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...
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 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,...
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'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...
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...
The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43

The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 The second instalment in a revealing and forceful new multi-volume history of the Second World War from one of...
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...
Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...