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Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution
One of the most creative periods of Russian culture and the most energized period of the Revolution coincided in the fateful years 1913-1931. During this time both the Party and...
Heroes of the Skies
Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of. In April 1943 Cyril Burcher bombed a German U-boat,...
Norm - Bomber Command: The Story of Francis Norman Crouch, the first
The touching, true story of the first Australian RAAF airman to fly a Lancaster Bomber in World War II. As a fifteen-year-old boy growing up in Sydney, Francis Norman 'Norm'...
Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940
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Nineteen Weeks is Norman Moss's riveting account of FDR, Churchill, and the extraordinary decisions made in 1940 that set the stage for America's interventionist role in world affairs. The weeks...
Vulcan 607
It was to be the most ambitious RAF bombing raid since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs on the reservoirs of the Ruhr in 1943. The plan was relatively simple-...
The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park's Role in Breaking Japan's Secret
In the No. 1 bestseller "Station X," Michael Smith brought us the riveting true story of how British experts broke Nazi Germany's wartime codes. In "The Emperor's Codes" he continues...
Auschwitz
In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from...
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the
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In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped and sheltered for months by villagers behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century...
Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State
In 1948, when the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states, a band of volunteer airmen from the United States, Canada, Britain, France,...
Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of
When hostilities erupted in December 1941, Pappy Gunn was living in Manila with his family, working as a manager for Philippine Airlines. Unfortunately, when the Japanese finally marched on Manila...
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest
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The heroic, #1 New York Times bestselling tale of the men who saved the world's greatest art from the Nazis, and the basis for the acclaimed motion picture starring George...
Fighter Pilot
Robin Olds was many things to many people. To his West Point football coach he was an All American destined for the National College Football Hall of Fame. To his...
Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including...
The Man Who Never Was
This text provides an insider account of the counter-intelligence operation (Operation Mincemeat) which paved the way for the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II. It outlines the audacious...
The Second World War: v. 6: Triumph and Tragedy
The book titled The Second World War: v. 6: Triumph and Tragedy by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Second World War: v. 5: Closing the Ring
The book titled The Second World War: v. 5: Closing the Ring by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Second World War: v. 3: Grand Alliance
The book titled The Second World War: v. 3: Grand Alliance by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Typhoon Pilot
This is not only the story of one man's war, but of an aircraft - the Typhoon, or "Tiffy" as it was affectionately known - which the author describes as...
A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest
On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command...
Alpha Bravo Delta Guide the U
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A complete overview of the U.S. Air Force-from the origins and complete histories to the battles and weaponry. Here are comprehensive accounts and descriptions of the battles, weaponry, and personnel,...
Finding Clara: a page-turning epic set in the aftermath of World War
A haunting debut full of moral ambiguity for fans of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ and THE POSTMISTRESS _____________________________________________ 'FINDING CLARA is the kind of novel we need now more than...
Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941
The years 1899 through 1941 are remarkable even by Latin America's uniquely turbulent standards. During this time, border disputes and domestic insurrections forcefully shaped the history of this area, as...
Borneo: The Last Campaign
From bestselling author Michael Veitch ( Australia's Secret Army , Turning Point ) comes the story of the brilliant, yet controversial campaign which ended Australia's involvement in World War II....
Undertones of War
With a new introduction and editorial apparatus by eminent military historian Hew Strachan In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the...
In Search of Modern Japan: Showa History and the Emperor
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This is a reassessment of Emperor Hirohito's reign and a social portrait of the 20th-century transformation of Japan. Hirohito was one of the longest reigning monarchs in world history. Coming...
Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let
The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs. In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef...
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
In 1945, Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the...
The Second World War: v. 4: Hinge of Fate
The book titled The Second World War: v. 4: Hinge of Fate by the author Winston S. Churchill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story
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An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, 'Lost in Shangri-La' is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end...
Selected Letters of Marcel Proust: Volume Three
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This third volume of Proust's letters covers the period when the writer was at the height of his powers, though he remained in bed in his cork-lined room for six...
France Under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise
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From 1940 to 1944, the French people adapted in a variety of ways to life under the domination of Nazi Germany. France under the Germans is the definitive study of...
Conspiracy of One: Tyler Kent's Secret Plot Against Fdr, Churchill,
Officers from the U.S. Embassy, Scotland Yard, and MI5 broke into the bedroom of suave young American code clerk Tyler Kent. They found him standing beside his unmade bed, wearing...
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
This is a biography of American writer Thomas Wolfe by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald. The book follows Wolfe from improbable affairs to drunken brawls, from his mother's "Old...
The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party
The book titled The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party by the author Francis Beckett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Undercover Tales of World War II
Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer "A first-class historian." --The Wall Street Journal Vendetta! "A wealth of insights."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Unexplained Mysteries of World War II "Anyone interested...
The Russian Revolution: A Short History
This study deals with the events of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War from 1917-1921. It provides a factual, chronological account of the main political events of the period,...
Marianne In Chains
An account of France in the Occupation, "Marianne in Chains" focuses on the area around Tours in the Loire and in so doing, Robert Gildea provides us with a microcosmic...
Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last
When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they...
Stalin and the Bomb: Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-56
For 40 years the Soviet-American nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Now that the Cold War is over and the Soviet...
On the Side of the Angels
The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, the book...
Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the...
An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-91
This update to "The History of the Soviet Economy" covers the period from the Bolshevik seizure of power to the aftermath of the failed coup, which speeded up the disintegration...
The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road
In 2005 an old canister of film was discovered in a Devon church. How it got there was a mystery and its contents were tantalizing. The grainy black and white...
A Brilliant Little Operation
The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. In 1942, before El Alamein...
Justice Delayed: How Britain Became A Refuge For Nazi War Crimina
Cesarani describes how the immigration policy of Clement Attlee's post-war government actually favoured Eastern Europeans over non-whites and Jewish Holocaust survivors. Despite protests from MPs Dick Crossman and Tom Driberg,...
Victory in the Desert: Montgomery and the Eighth Army 1942-1943
The end of the beginning... An epic conflict North Africa was a turning point for the British in the Second World War: a harsh landscape of sand and enemy tanks,...