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Alicia: Memoirs of A Survivor
Paperback,
14/08/2014,
£7.99
£7.19
Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism -- Alicia's story is one that the young must hear and their elders must remember.
Auschwitz
Paperback,
01/09/2005,
£9.99
£8.99
We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed.
Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler
Paperback,
03/06/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera
'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of Spoils
What does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?
Svenja O'Donnell's beautiful, aloof grandmother Inge never spoke about the past.
A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
Hardback,
01/10/2020,
£35.00
£31.50
In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conflict as he charts its historical sweep across each of the major theatres.
I Only Joined for the Hat: Redoubtable Wrens at War - Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs
Paperback,
27/04/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
Japan's Pacific War: Personal Accounts of the Emperor's Warriors
Hardback,
15/04/2021,
£25.00
£22.50
Personal accounts by individual Japanese servicemen.
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War
Hardback,
28/10/2021,
£25.00
£22.50
Battle of London 1939-45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty Under Fire
Hardback,
04/11/2021,
£30.00
£27.00
The definitive, meticulously researched social history of London in the Second World War, which transformed the capital, and life within it, beyond recognition.
Britain and Germany were at war for almost six long years.
Words of War: The story of the Second World War revealed in eye-witness letters, speeches and diaries
Hardback,
30/09/2021,
£25.00
£22.50
The Imperial War Museum open its world-famous archives to celebrate the letters, diaries and spoken words of those who witnessed the key events of the Second World War.
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Hardback,
16/09/2021,
£20.00
£18.00
A unique portrait of war -- and a charming coming-of-age story -- from the private diaries of Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary.
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II
Hardback,
11/11/2021,
£16.99
£15.29
The gigantic covert wartime mission led by the men and women of London's museums and galleries to save the nation's priceless heritage.
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day
Hardback,
30/09/2021,
£25.00
£22.50
My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbruck survivo
Paperback,
19/08/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. Unlike her parents and sister - who, she would later discover, died in other camps - she survived by using her alias, pretending to be someone else.
The Churchill Quiz Book: How much do you know about Britain's wartime leader?
Hardback,
01/04/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
Churchill's Britain: From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight
Hardback,
20/09/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
The book takes the reader the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland to lesser-known places associated with Churchill's life.
The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
Paperback,
04/09/2020,
£10.99
£9.89
The Spirit of the Blitz: Home Intelligence and British Morale, September 1940 - June 1941
Hardback,
06/08/2020,
£30.00
£27.00
Edited and introduced by two leading historians of the period, this volume tells the inside story of Home Intelligence and why it proved so controversial in Whitehall, the complete and unabridged sequence of reports provide us with a unique and extraordinary window into the mindset of the British during a momentous period in their history.
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,
£8.99
£8.09
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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