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Those Who Forget: One Family's Story; A Memoir, a History, a Warning
Paperback,
01/04/2021,
£10.99
£9.89
During the war, Geraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich.
Operation Crusader and the Desert War in British History and Memory: "What is Failure? What is Loyalty?"
Paperback,
24/02/2022,
£28.99
£26.09
Nations in the Balance: The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943-August 1944
Hardback,
15/02/2022,
£25.00
£22.50
A new history of the battles in Burma in 1944, the outcome of which decided World War II in Asia and influenced the next 75 years of Asian history.
The Day Rommel Was Stopped: The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942
Paperback,
15/02/2022,
£17.99
£16.19
The battle of 2 July 1942 at Ruweisat Ridge in North Africa is not well known but it was the day that Rommel was finally stopped. This account was written by an officer in the small British force that turned back Rommel's forces.
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Hardback,
18/01/2022,
£20.00
£18.00
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept
The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?
Jane Haining A Life of Love and Courage
Paperback,
06/01/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
This is the first full biography of one of Scotland's greatest daughters and the only Scot to be officially honoured for giving her life to help Jews during the Holocaust. It is based on in-depth original research in all of the book's locations, personal interviews, and a trove of newly discovered material.
How to Be a Refugee: The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis
Paperback,
06/01/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
A powerfully moving family memoir of loss, exile and self-concealment in Nazi Germany.
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News
Paperback,
25/11/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
A books which traces Churchill's life in the news from cradle to grave, showing how tensions between tradition and novelty played into his constantly evolving media image.
Battle of Britain, West Sussex: One County's Role in the Spitfire Summer of 1940
Hardback,
30/01/2022,
£25.00
£22.50
Provides a detailed and comprehensive day-by-day account of activity in and over West Sussex throughout the campaign from 10 July to 31 October 1940.
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival
Paperback,
20/01/2022,
£8.99
£8.09
'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis' evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to survive.'
Sisters of the Resistance: The Nuns Who Defied the Nazis
Paperback,
03/02/2022,
£8.99
£8.09
Throughout the occupied territories, Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the Nazis
Britain's Final Defence: Arming the Home Guard 1940-1944
Paperback,
24/02/2022,
£17.99
£16.19
First authoritative study of efforts to arm Britain's World War II Home Guard
At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45
Paperback,
03/02/2022,
£12.99
£11.69
A British Band of Brothers: a thrilling account of the Second World War, told through the eyes of a regiment who fought at battles from Tobruk to the D-Day Landings.
Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939-1945
Paperback,
07/04/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
Becky Brown mines the Mass Observation Archive for wartime experiences of 1939-45 to show how the lives of people now generations away have relevance to our twenty-first century experience - living amidst a global pandemic.
As Long As I Hope to Live: The moving, true story of a Jewish girl under Nazi occupation
Paperback,
07/04/2022,
£10.99
£9.89
The true and moving holocaust story of Jewish schoolgirl Alie Lopes Dias and the fate of her schoolfriends in Amsterdam. Only six of the 19 survived the war.
The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert
Paperback,
31/03/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.
Soon to be a major film starring Benedict Cumberbatch
Warriors of Death: The Final Battles of Hitler's Private Bodyguard, 1944-45
Paperback,
24/03/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
Under the Southern Cross: The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul
Paperback,
10/11/2022,
£14.99
£13.49
Super-Battleships of World War II: Montana-class, Lion-class, H-class, A-150 and Sovetsky Soyuz-class
Paperback,
22/12/2022,
£11.99
£10.79
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot
Hardback,
17/03/2022,
£20.00
£18.00
Hitler's Spy Princess: The Extraordinary Life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe
Paperback,
10/03/2022,
£12.99
£11.69
The action-packed dubious rise of Stephanie von Hohenlohe in Nazi Germany
The Weinsteins' War: Letters of Love, Struggle and Survival
Paperback,
03/03/2022,
£12.99
£11.69
A moving and unique exchange of letters between a Jewish soldier and his wife at home
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
Paperback,
14/04/2022,
£10.99
£9.89
Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - Aftermath evokes an immersive portrait of a society corrupted, demoralised and freed - all at the same time.
Homelands: The History of a Friendship
Hardback,
21/04/2022,
£16.99
£15.29
A book about history, friendship, family and what it means to belong, from the award-winning journalist and author of Expecting
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure
Hardback,
26/05/2022,
£20.00
£18.00
The incredible story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by ordinary men who ultimately did something extraordinary.
The Radio Front: The BBC and the Propaganda War 1939-45
Paperback,
05/05/2022,
£17.99
£16.19
How the Home Service utilised radio to win over the wartime public
Remarkable Women of the Second World War: A Collection of Untold Stories
Hardback,
16/06/2022,
£18.99
£17.09
Capturing the stories of ordinary women doing extraordinary things through the turbulent years of the Second World War
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II
Paperback,
23/12/2021,
£10.99
£9.89
The Spitfire Kids: The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter
Paperback,
26/05/2022,
£8.99
£8.09
A bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous fighter plane - the Spitfire.
World War II
Hardback,
07/10/2004,
£25.00
£17.50
A dramatic new illustrated account of the most destructive war the world has ever seen.
Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Published in 2010, Bloodlands argues that accounts of World War II have paid too much attention to the atrocities of Adolf Hitler, and not enough to Joseph Stalin's. Snyder believes a definitive history of the period must depict the suffering of all of the conflict's victims.
Churchill's School for Saboteurs: Station 17
Hardback,
19/09/2013,
£20.00
£12.00
The secret life of Brickendonbury Manor & the WW2 assassins & saboteurs who set occupied Europe alight.
Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy
Paperback,
12/02/2015,
£10.99
£9.89
There is no reason why you should have heard of Geoffrey Pyke. After his suicide in 1948 he was described as one of the great geniuses of his time, to rank alongside Einstein, yet he remains today, as The Times put it, 'one of the most original if unrecognised figures' of the twentieth century.
Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front
Hardback,
22/05/2014,
£20.00
£18.00
A unique landmark oral history of D-Day on the Home Front, 6 June 1944, told through the voices of those who experienced it first-hand.
Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee: Winner of the Orwell Prize
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
£14.99
£13.49
The Orwell Prize-winning biography of Clement Attlee, a landmark contribution to the political dialogue by the 'outstanding historian of his generation'
Young Hitler: The Making of the Fuhrer
Hardback,
02/11/2017,
£18.99
£17.09
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old.
Pillar of Fire: Dunkirk 1940
Paperback,
03/10/2000,
£9.99
£6.99
This is the story of the journey of the British Expeditionary Force from hope to despair, to triumph in the midst of defeat. Over 300,000 men were taken off the beaches of Dunkirk, and it was they who became the nucleus of the armies which swept Nazism from Europe.
Meaning of Treason 2ed
Paperback,
01/06/2000,
£12.99
£9.09
The classic study of World War II treachery and analysis of the impulse to betray.
Operation Sealion
Hardback,
14/08/2014,
£25.00
£15.00
One of Britain's most remarkable victories of the Second World War.
Churchill and War
Paperback,
24/08/2006,
£21.99
£15.39
Winston Churchill saved Britain and Europe by his incomparable leadership in the Second World War. This book shows the importance of war in Churchill's career as a whole, from his early days as a hussar in India to his attempts to control the threat of the nuclear bomb. It covers his leadership in the Second World War.
Voices from the Twentieth Century: The Battle of Britain and the Blitz
Hardback,
18/07/2002,
£14.99
£10.49
This series combines text based largely on eyewitness accounts lodged in the archives of the Imperial War Museum, with a CD based on actual recordings held in the same archives. This volume relives the Battle of Britain.
Voices from the Twentieth Century: Women at War
Hardback,
18/07/2002,
£14.99
£10.49
This series combines text based largely on eyewitness accounts lodged in the archives of the Imperial War Museum, with a CD based on actual recordings held in the same archives. This volume examines the part that women played in the two major wars of the 20th century.
Escaping Hitler: Stories Of Courage And Endurance On The Freedom Trails
Hardback,
21/09/2017,
£20.00
£14.00
As seen on Channel 4's WWII Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails, this is the incredible story of four escape routes out of Nazi-occupied Europe, of the Allied servicemen who used them, and of the men and women of the Resistance who risked their lives to create and run them.
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