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Back from Tobruk
In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he...
Cover Up at Omaha Beach: Maisy Battery and the US Ranges
The Rangers mission was clear. They were to lead the assault on Omaha Beach and breakout inland. Simultaneously other Ranger units would scale the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American
A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel: inspired by true acts of courage,
The war taught her to fight. The children taught her to hope...*The Lost Song of Paris, the new novel from Sarah Steele, is available to pre-order now!*Inspired by real acts...
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to...
The Air Raid Book Club: The most uplifting, heartwarming story of war,
'Touching and heartwarming . . . get those tissues ready' - Jill Mansell'A warm and tender tale about the power of books' - Ruth HoganAs the bombs began to fall,...
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II
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D-Day: Dawn of Heroes
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The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
Voices of Colditz: The YMCA Notebook from Oflag Ivc
Rarely does a piece of history emerge to tell a significant tale after nearly 70 years in a bedroom drawer. Recovered and brought back to Britain in 1945, a battered...
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret
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As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...
11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
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A true World War II Christmas story from the bestselling author of Silent Night.It was truly a white Christmas in the Ardennes Forest in 1944, but that was cold comfort...
Hitler's Spy Chief
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Arrested in the wake of the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Canaris was executed by the Nazis in the last week of the war, although the extent of his...
Back from Tobruk
In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II. As the war continued to escalate, he...
Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General
This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days,...
Heinkel He 111: The Early Years - Fall of France, Battle of Britain
Considered to be the best known German bomber of the Second Wold War, the Heinkel He 111 served in every military front in the European theatre, having first being deployed...
Normandy Invasion, June 1944
The Noemandy Invasion literally takes a different view of D-Day and just beyond, showing the well-known events using aerial photos. This is what anxiously waiting senior officers knew about progress...
The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan'S Attack on the Indian
. Gripping account of a little-known but crucial episode in World War IIOne of the biggest 'what if' moments of WWIIPuts a new perspective on Japan's military ambitions in WWII...
Supreme Commander: Macarthur's Triumph in Japan
He is the most decorated general in American history-and the only five five-star general to receive the Medal of Honor. Yet Douglas MacArthur's greatest victory was not in war but...
Panzer Rollen!
Repair, logistics, recovery, tactics and movement of a panzer division compiled from post- war debriefs, contemporary intelligence reports and interviews. AUTHOR: Bob Carruthers is one of the UK's leading military...
Churchill's Spearhead
This book covers the inception, growth and employment of Britain's airborne forces (parachute and glider-borne formations) between June 1940 and March 1945. It takes a comparative approach and follows tailored...
Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home
The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not...
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: North-West Europe 1944-1945
In this delightful book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life - and death - in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's...
Hiroshima Nagasaki
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Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US...
Churchill and Sea Power
Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the...
The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders
Known in some accounts as the Battle of Wijtschaete, the confrontation along the Ypres-Comines Canal in 1940 is still hardly remembered in this country and, apart from the battle honours...
Fighting in Hell the German Ordeal on the Eastern Front
The German war in Russia was so brutal in all its extremes that all past experiences paled beside it. Everything in Russia - the land, the climate, the distances and...
Battle for the Escaut 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign
On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off...
Red Army Armour in Combat
This fascinating collection of primary source accounts focuses on the combat actions of Red Army tank forces in World War II. The material is drawn from a variety of wartime...
The Changi Brownlow: An inspirational story of the Aussie spirit
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For the Love of a Soldier: Australian War-Brides and Their Gi'S
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Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust
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Classic Retellings - Great Expectations: A Retelling
Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman returns with a brilliantly realised and truly accessible retelling of the book described as Dickens' "most perfect" novel. My story is a long one with...
The Librarian of Burned Books: A Novel
For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in...
Our Darkest Night: Inspired by true events, a powerfully moving story
TO SAVE THOSE SHE LOVES, SHE MUST MAKE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.In Our Darkest Night, internationally bestselling author of The Gown, Jennifer Robson, tells an unforgettable story of terror, hope, love,...
Voices from a Lost World: Australian Women and Children in Papua New Guinea Before the Japanese Invasion
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I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
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The Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany
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Carve Her Name with Pride
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The Devil's Disciples
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The Royal Windsor Secret: A Novel
Could she be the secret daughter of the Prince of Wales In this dazzling novel by the author of Sisters of the Resistance, a young woman seeks to discover the...
Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest
There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted...
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack
In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and...
Normandy in the Time of Darkness: Everyday Life and Death in the
This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy (1940-44), and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940, Normandy formed part of the Reich's...
Hitler's Air Defences
The first Allied bombing raid on Berlin during the course of the Second World War, took place on 7 June 1940, when a French naval aircraft dropped 8 bombs on...
US Eighth Air Force in Europe: Eager Eagles: Summer 1941-1943
Using narrative accounts and new insights this book catalogues the dramatic and first-hand oral testimonies of the US Army Air Corps' bomber crews of the newly created Eighth Air Force...
U-Boat War Patrol
This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were 'liberated' from a concrete...