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First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in the Second...
Alex Kershaw
History; European history; Second World War; Battles & campaigns
Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with a thrilling, action-heavy account... [more]
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Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in...
Florian Huber
History; European history; Second World War
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An important exploration of a shocking and previously unacknowledged chapter in German history. [more]
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Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d...
Anne De Courcy
Biography; European history; Social & cultural history; Second World War
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Bestselling social historian Anne de Courcy reveals the glamour and grit of the Second World War on the French Riviera [more]
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Normandy `44: D-Day and the Battle for France
James Holland
History; Second World War; Battles & campaigns
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Coinciding with the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, James Holland draws on unseen archives and testimonies from around the world... [more]
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D-Day: The Soldiers' Story
Giles Milton
History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War
Hardback
The definitive soldier-on-the-beach account of the greatest invasion in history [more]
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Defying The Nazis
Artemis Joukowsky, Ken Burns
Autobiography: historical, political & military; History; Genocide & ethnic cleansing; Second World War; Christian mission & evangelism
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This official companion to the Ken Burns film Defying the Nazis tells the little-known story of the Sharps, an otherwise ordinary... [more]
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The Battle Within: POWs in postwar Australia
Christina Twomey
History; Australasian & Pacific history; Second World War; Military veterans
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Follows the stories of 15,000 Australian prisoners of war from the moment they were released by the Japanese at the end of... [more]
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The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich
History; European history; Social & cultural history; Second World War; Gender studies: women
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The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the... [more]
$29.99 $12.00
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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
Antony Beevor
History; Second World War
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In this deeply researched work, with striking insights into the major players on both sides, Antony Beevor gives us the definitive... [more]
$34.99 $10.00
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Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese...
John Prados
History; Asian history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War; Battles & campaigns
Hardback
As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane... [more]
$51.95 $15.00
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The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan
Stephen Harding
History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War; Naval forces & warfare
Hardback
Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, a young U.S. Navy Lieutenant waged a one-man war against the Japanese. [more]
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A Nazi in the Family: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany...
Derek Niemann
Biography; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War
Hardback
Three years ago Derek Niemann made the chilling discovery that his grandfather Karl had been an officer in the SS. A Nazi... [more]
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Secret Plot to Stop the Nazi...
Sam Kean
True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; True war & combat stories; History; Second World War; Fascism & Nazism; Nuclear weapons; Advocate - History
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New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining... [more]
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Turning Point: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat...
Michael Veitch
True war & combat stories; History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Military history; Second World War; Air forces & warfare; Advocate - History
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Told for the first time, this is the epic story of the Milne Bay campaign of 1942 - which saw Japanese land forces suffer... [more]
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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
Jan Karski
Memoirs; History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War
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With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first eyewitness... [more]
$22.99
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Stalingrad
David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
History; European history; Second World War
Paperback
This is the long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces... [more]
$55.95
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False Flags: Disguised German Raiders of World War II
Stephen Robinson
History; European history; Maritime history; Second World War; Naval forces & warfare
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False Flags tells the epic story of German raider voyages during the early years of World War II. In 1940 the raiders Orion,... [more]
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Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts
Daniel Siemens
History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War
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The first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity... [more]
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Larrikins in Khaki: Tales of Irreverence and Courage from World War II Diggers...
Tim Bowden
History; Australasian & Pacific history; Second World War; Military life & institutions
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With a reputation for being hard to discipline, generosity to their comrades, frankness and sticking it up any sign of pomposity,... [more]
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Smoky the Brave
Damien Lewis
True war & combat stories; History; Second World War; Dogs as pets
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The World's Smallest Dog with the World's Biggest Heart [more]
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
Robert Hutton
Biography: historical, political & military; True war & combat stories; History; Second World War; Fascism & Nazism; Espionage & secret services
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Revealed for the first time, the astonishing story of the MI5 agent at the heart of Operation Fifth Column, the secret wartime... [more]
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Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's...
Mark Felton
History; Second World War
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GIs and Germans join forces in a thrilling true adventure story from the last days of the Second World War. [more]
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The Diggers of Colditz: The classic Australian POW story about escape from...
Jack Champ, Colin Burgess
History; Second World War
Paperback
A new and expanded edition of this book by Champ, an Australian who took part in two mass escapes from the German prisoner... [more]
$35.00
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The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram
David M. Guss
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War; Prisoners of war
Paperback
The extraordinary story of Alastair Cram, the British soldier who escaped from prisoner-of-war camps not once but more than... [more]
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Defending the Rock: Gibraltar and the Second World War
Nicholas Rankin
History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War
Paperback
Nicholas Rankin's revelatory new book, whose cast of characters includes Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess and General Sikorski,... [more]
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