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From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII
Author: Edward Smithies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window' GUARDIAN 'The...
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...
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
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Author: Andrew Lownie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography...
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
Author: Neal Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon Meacham Based on genealogical breakthroughs...
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians
Author: Michael Bloch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in...
Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women
Author: Claudia Gold, MD Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Poisoners', 'whores', 'witches' and 'murderers' - or so their enemies claimed. From Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, to the villainous Catherine...
Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy
Author: Michael J. Mazarr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Leap of Faith is the first comprehensive and objective history of the decision to invade Iraq. Based on nine years...
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...
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century
Author: Christopher Capozzola Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces....
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to...
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate
Author: Jason Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London...
Secret Warriors: Key Scientists, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War
Author: Taylor Downing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The First World War is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided...
John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation
Author: Harlow Giles Unger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The surprising life of Chief Justice John Marshall, who turned the Supreme Court into a bulwark against presidential and congressional...
A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Author: Stanley Weintraub Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas , historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a...
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
Author: Bret Baier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 #1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue...
They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
Author: Ruben Gallego Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company,...
Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas
Author: Colour-Sergeant Kailash Limbu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu...
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Author: Henri Charriere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder...
Unbroken
Author: Laura Hillenbrand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 500 The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. On a May...