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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War 2 by Mari K. Eder
    The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War 2 - by Mari K. Eder

    £13.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781728242729 | ISBN 10: 172824272x

    For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War by Tobias Kelly
    Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War - by Tobias Kelly

    £22.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784743949 | ISBN 10: 1784743941

    A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitments.  Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the h ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
    To Die in Spring - by Ralf Rothmann

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509812868 | ISBN 10: 1509812865

    "[To Die in Spring] holds its own against [Günter] Grass and [Erich Maria] Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership."(Guardian) Walter Urban and Friedrich ‘Fiete’ Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Devotion by Louisa Young
    Devotion - by Louisa Young

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780007532902 | ISBN 10: 0007532903

    From the bestselling author of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You and The Heroes’ Welcome, Louisa Young's Devotion is a novel of family, love, race and politics set during the electric change of the 1930s. Tom loves Nenna. Nenna loves her father. Her f ... more

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  • Cover image of book La Place de l
    La Place de l'Etoile - by Patrick Modiano

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408867952 | ISBN 10: 1408867958

    Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation.   We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphaël Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Can
    I Can't Begin to Tell You - by Elizabeth Buchan

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780718158002 | ISBN 10: 0718158008

    Elizabeth Buchan brings us a beautifully told story of courage, love and lies in wartime Europe in her heart-breaking new novel I Can't Begin to Tell You.   When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror - her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
    Alan Turing: The Enigma - by Andrew Hodges

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784700089 | ISBN 10: 1784700088

    The official book behind the eight-time Oscar-nominated film, The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley   Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by Brit ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts
    What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France - by Mary Louise Roberts

    £14.50   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780226923116 | ISBN 10: 0226923118

    How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly — but if you’re the US Army ... more

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  • Cover image of book Conversations with Stalin by Milovan Djilas
    Conversations with Stalin - by Milovan Djilas

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141393094 | ISBN 10: 0141393092

    A mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider - with an introduction from Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag and Iron Curtain.   This extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held wit ... more

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  • Cover image of book On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
    On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War - by Bernard Wasserstein

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846681905 | ISBN 10: 1846681901

    A major history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War Two.  This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse ... more

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  • Cover image of book A People
    A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire - by Donny Gluckstein

    £22.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745328027 | ISBN 10: 0745328024

    A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist master ... more

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  • Cover image of book Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
    Half of the Human Race - by Anthony Quinn

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099531944 | ISBN 10: 0099531941

    Summer of 1911. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests.   Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence, wants more than the conventio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
    Finding Poland - by Matthew Kelly

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099515999 | ISBN 10: 0099515997

    An expansive, insightful and moving history of the Polish experience during World War Two, and its lasting legacy.  Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly’s great grandmother and her tw ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Save a People by Alex Kershaw
    To Save a People - by Alex Kershaw

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539131 | ISBN 10: 0099539136

    New York Times bestselling author Alex Kershaw has written the first full biography of one of the most remarkable men to have outwitted Hitler – Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who almost single-handedly saved the lives of countless Hung ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mother Country: Britain by Stephen Bourne
    Mother Country: Britain - by Stephen Bourne

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752456102 | ISBN 10: 0752456105

    Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London an ... more

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  • Cover image of book How I Came to Know Fish by Oto Pavel
    How I Came to Know Fish - by Oto Pavel

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141192833 | ISBN 10: 0141192836

    How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia.   Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
    The Rescue Man - by Anthony Quinn

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099531937 | ISBN 10: 0099531933

    Summer, 1939. Historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of Liverpool's architectural past. His mood, like the rest of the country's, is distracted by the ominous rumblings from Europe; if war should come, will the buildings and streets that he docum ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hiroshima by John Hersey
    Hiroshima - by John Hersey

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141041865 | ISBN 10: 0141041862

    When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history.   Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    Catch-22 - by Joseph Heller

    £9.99   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780099477310 | ISBN 10: 0099477319

    Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill hi ... more

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