World War 2

"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...

Georg Elser was just an ordinary working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a carpenter and had spent some time working in a watch factory. That all...

Refreshed, renewed, reloaded! All the foul facts about the Woeful Second World War are ready to uncover, including: why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty what really happened...

June 1940. In just weeks, General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division dubbed the 'Ghost Division' - had driven headlong through Allied forces in Belgium and France to reach the English...

The Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland had been met with tenacious resistance by the Germans but the defence consisted for the most part of armoured units that...

Papa whispered to Chana, ' If we get separated, if something happens to me, look after Mama and Aron. And one last thing- ' He smoothed an affectionate hand over...

'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph , Five stars Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume and incinerate the...

A revised edition of the book to give it the same format and cover look as Antony Beevor's STALINGRAD and BERLIN. Publication in May 2004 will coincide with the 60...

On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson...

More than 6000 warships are included in this comprehensive encyclopedia of the world''s navies during the Second World War. The basis of the volume was the first unc ensored edition...

They were some of the finest ships the Royal Navy ever built--the last of the great "floating villages" to see WWII action. Their achievements appear in dramatic photos of both...

This text is Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949. It was his responsibility to anticipate German applications of science to warfare, so that...

A beautifully written evocation of lost world and a vanished childhood, by the author of Clouds of Glory. This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being...

Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications...

With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little...

Trotti's story is a gripping, fast-paced insight behind the myth of the hotdog jet jockey and into the reality where 'death ceases to be the enemy, merely another participant in...

A vivid re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through detailed maps, authoritative text by a noted military historian and contemporary photographs. This powerful study chronicles the evolution...

In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of art. Cornelius Gurlitt's trove, inherited from his father Hildebrand, art...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover. A gripping work of Cold War espionage non-fiction, Intrepid's Last Case chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A collection of mid-twentieth century verse, Winter War: And Other Poems by Phyllis...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA gripping work of World War II naval history,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket. In this searing and meticulously documented investigation, Carlo Falconi confronts one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of military and diplomatic history, A World at Arms: A Global...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA classic wartime spy thriller, N or M? chronicles the return of beloved amateur sleuths Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, who are recruited...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling literary anthology assembles firsthand accounts, poetry, and prose that chronicle the experiences of young...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Australian-Jewish history, The Dunera Internees chronicles one of the most remarkable and troubling episodes of World...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA gripping work of Cold War espionage fiction, The Expendable Spy chronicles the dangerous and...