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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912905683 | ISBN 10: 191290568x
Insightful, first-hand accounts of refugees fleeing Nazism.
A popular history telling the stories of people who found refuge in Wales from Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s.
Finding Refuge will resonate with those who have personal ex ... more
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£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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£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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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349011585 | ISBN 10: 0349011583
One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland’s Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis.Â
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£15.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781851245833 | ISBN 10: 1851245839
Long Live Freedom!
— Hans Scholl's last words before his execution.
Is it not so that in the present day, every honourable German is ashamed of their government? And who amongst us can foresee the extent of the infamy that will be on us ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526601735 | ISBN 10: 1526601737
A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY
We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told. In the early 1930s, a group of y ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471185854 | ISBN 10: 1471185850
* LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL *Â
In Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marri ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472153487 | ISBN 10: 1472153480
Based on actual events, Never Anyone But You is the gripping, beautifully written story of a love affair between two revolutionary female artists who challenged the conventions of art and gender during the long twentieth century.
A small cit ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785763670 | ISBN 10: 1785763679
Heart-breaking – a tale of love and survival amidst the horrors of Auschwitz
Human – the real story behind one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust – the blue numbers tattooed on prisoners' arms
Inspirational – the very best of human ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786492487 | ISBN 10: 1786492482
‘You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.’
Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908745750 | ISBN 10: 1908745754
A new edition marking the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport.
Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786072504 | ISBN 10: 1786072505
This is the gripping story of the five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II, featured in the award-winning Oscar-nominated film, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days. This 75th anniversary edition c ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408897225 | ISBN 10: 1408897229
On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy that had fought in the trenches of the First World War. Now that direct link with the past has gone. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911344506 | ISBN 10: 1911344501
Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler’s war.
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Late April, 1945. The war is over yet Dr Doll, a loner and ... more
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£17.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784538743 | ISBN 10: 1784538744
In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911350194 | ISBN 10: 1911350196
Darkness Over Germany delivers a stark warning from history of how a man with little political experience rose up as a voice of the people, a voice for the disenfranchised who were suffering the injustices of social inequality and unemployment.
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784782085 | ISBN 10: 1784782084
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II.
In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under mod ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780552779524 | ISBN 10: 0552779520
Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784700201 | ISBN 10: 1784700207
***Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award***
** The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **
What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in 'neutral' Switze ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408866795 | ISBN 10: 140886679x
It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, idly thieving from the village shop, enl ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099542278 | ISBN 10: 0099542277
The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between w ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781253038 | ISBN 10: 178125303x
Shot down on his first RAF mission, James Hunter spends his war in a German prison camp. The other captive soldiers busy themselves planning their escapes, but James dedicates himself to a detailed study of the redstarts nesting just beyond the camp ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471152191 | ISBN 10: 1471152197
From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War.
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781857886498 | ISBN 10: 1857886496
Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money and everybody kept their mouths shut.
In the upper reaches of the Loire lies an isolated plateau and the secluded village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Their whole village was honoured not just by t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241966037 | ISBN 10: 0241966035
In Noonday, Pat Barker - the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration - turns for the first time to WWII.
'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness, thei ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444797664 | ISBN 10: 1444797662
Inspired by the lost voices of the Romany Holocaust this heartbreaking and tender novel will appeal to readers who loved Sophie's Choice, Schindler's Ark and The Book Thief.
Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy - half Roma, half Yenish - runs, ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099537755 | ISBN 10: 0099537753
Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese-Americans begins.
Following the hellish murder of a Japanese fa ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349120034 | ISBN 10: 034912003x
The compelling story of the only concentration camp for women by the acclaimed author of A Life in Secrets.
On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780285643277 | ISBN 10: 0285643274
"Politicians debating the nuclear deal with Iran would do well to spend some time with Southard’s ‘Nagasaki’. It does not tell us what to do. It only reminds us of the stakes."(Washington Post)
On August 9th, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571280346 | ISBN 10: 057128034x
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Résistance française' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782393139 | ISBN 10: 1782393137
Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?
In 1962, Emil Clément comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clément, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish f ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099554646 | ISBN 10: 009955464x
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014
From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964033 | ISBN 10: 0241964032
Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland.
"The best-ever account of what is was like to be young and fighting in the Warsaw Rising"(Neal Ascherson, Sunday Herald, Books of the Year)
Poland ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444781274 | ISBN 10: 1444781278
A dramatic and fascinating novel based on a notorious breakout by Japanese prisoners from an Australian POW camp in 1944, encapsulating the impact of war on ordinary lives.
On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of t ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781254141 | ISBN 10: 1781254141
Thrilling and terrifying by turns, this is the gripping account of a young Jewish woman who survived the Second World War by going to ground in Berlin.
Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordina ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141046389 | ISBN 10: 0141046384
Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445637600 | ISBN 10: 144563760x
As one of Britain’s largest cities, Liverpool was heavily targeted during the two world wars. Many residents of Merseyside lost their lives in the conflict, both in active combat and as a result of hardships on the Home Front. In this book, author An ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444736465 | ISBN 10: 1444736469
By the author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour, an ambitious and moving exploration of the lasting impact of the Second World War.
Alma Braithwaite was a teenager in Exeter when her boarding school was bombed in 1942. Twenty-one years later, ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349138725 | ISBN 10: 0349138729
A lively history of the Second World War on the Home Front told through the stories of the women serving in the Women's Voluntary Services
From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). Thi ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780007550128 | ISBN 10: 000755012x
National Book Critics Circle Award
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
New York Times Notable
National Jewish Book Award
In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408843215 | ISBN 10: 1408843218
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is one of the only neutral ports left in Europe – a city filled with spies, crowned heads and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage t ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782391050 | ISBN 10: 1782391053
Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2014
A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of busi ... more
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£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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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408842102 | ISBN 10: 1408842106
Tracing Anne Frank’s life from an early childhood in an assimilated family to her adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam, Melissa Müller’s biography, originally published in 1998, follows her life right up until her desperate end in Bergen Belsen.
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408834527 | ISBN 10: 1408834529
Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Two-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her of a story about a giant who guards a mysterious place called the Underworld ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781849546539 | ISBN 10: 1849546533
‘Through thick and thin, never separate. Stick together, guard each other, and live for one another.’
As Hitler’s war intensified, the Ovitz family would have good reason to stand by their mother’s mantra. Descending from the cattle train into ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099583844 | ISBN 10: 0099583844
Now a major film starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Jeremy Irvine (Warhorse).
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555643 | ISBN 10: 0099555646
An astonishing, unforgettable novel: a thrilling Second World War assassination plot told with rare literary brilliance.
Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovak ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844088119 | ISBN 10: 1844088111
'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.
May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846274428 | ISBN 10: 1846274427
The events of a few days in August 1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half of them instantly.
Craig Collie is the first person to interview elderly survivors and desce ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780752465852 | ISBN 10: 0752465856
Very little attention has been given to the thousands of black British, Caribbean and West African servicemen and - women who supported the British war effort from 1939-45. Black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the a ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780752463520 | ISBN 10: 0752463527
With its strategic shipping ports and factories, the towns and cities dotted along the River Mersey soon became some of Hitler's most heavily targeted sites during the Second World War. In August 1940 the German Luftwaffe attacked Birkenhead in what ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141037899 | ISBN 10: 014103789x
We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women - in the Services and on the Home Front - demonstrated that they were cleverer, m ... more
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£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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£16.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781595581662 | ISBN 10: 1595581669
"I’ve lived about thirty-eight years after the war and about twenty years before. For me it’s B.W. and A.W. — before the war and after the war. I suspect there are a lot of people like me."(Robert Rasmus, interviewed by Studs Terkel)
The most ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844087976 | ISBN 10: 1844087972
Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, o ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444714197 | ISBN 10: 1444714198
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III.
In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labo ... more
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£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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£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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£13.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780850366730 | ISBN 10: 0850366739
Firefighters in the Second World War were as crucial to victory as the army - and they ran the same sort of risks.
Sixteen thousand were killed and 180,000 injured. The rest never forgot the dreadful things they saw: "Once you've pulled ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752458571 | ISBN 10: 0752458574
During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved and beaten, theirs was a battle of conscience.
In the First World War, seventy-three conscientious objectors died as a result o ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752457499 | ISBN 10: 0752457497
At the outbreak of the Second World War the government short-sightedly allowed thousands of miners to enlist in the armed services. By 1943 the war effort was in danger of grinding to a halt because of a lack of coal. In answer Ernest Bevin, the Mini ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007315772 | ISBN 10: 0007315775
For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world.
Aden, 1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099521129 | ISBN 10: 0099521121
A clever, colourful, comparative history showing us that, when it comes to being green, resourceful and eco-friendly, our grannies can show us the way...
Recycling, composting, buying locally-sourced food and vintage clothing, checking air m ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141193205 | ISBN 10: 0141193204
My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression.
Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover ... more
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£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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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848870857 | ISBN 10: 184887085x
Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. Dismal icy rain falls, unabated, for days.
Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky closing days of World War II. Haunted by the col ... more
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£8.99 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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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596745 | ISBN 10: 0747596743
In the summer of 1940, as the German Occupation tightened its grip on Paris, Agnès Humbert helped to establish one of the first resistance cells. Within a year the group was publishing a news bulletin, helping allied airmen escape and passing militar ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843549604 | ISBN 10: 1843549603
In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries: Germany and Japan. In this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares ho ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752451169 | ISBN 10: 0752451162
This book brings together a wealth of black and white pictures which together record not only the operations of the WLA but also scenes of the countryside between 1939 and 1950. Drawn from the worldwide albums of many ex-land girls at a time wh ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906779047 | ISBN 10: 190677904x
In May 1939, the SS St Louis set sail from Hamburg carrying 937 German Jews seeking asylum from Nazi persecution. While the whole world watched and waited, the unfortunate travellers embarked on a strange and terrifying journey. Unknown to the captai ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781851685851 | ISBN 10: 1851685855
On her fifteenth birthday, as the German army tightens its grip on Warsaw, Mary Berg begins writing her diary. She does not yet know that by the time she has filled twelve small notebooks she will have endured four years of Nazi terror and recorded i ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780720612851 | ISBN 10: 0720612853
This autobiographical novel, regarded as Mishima’s finest book, is the haunting story of a Japanese boy’s development toward a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War.
Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood thro ... more
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£21.99 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781595581457 | ISBN 10: 1595581456
Black Fire, the celebrated first volume of Nelson Peery’s riveting autobiography, told the story of his childhood and teenage years during the Depression and his subsequent political awakening as a soldier in the all-black 93rd Infantry Division in W ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780752443133 | ISBN 10: 0752443135
The Women's Land Army was the forgotten victory of the Second World War. While troops fought on the front line, a battalion of young women joined up to take their place as agricultural workers. Despite many of them coming from urban backgrounds ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091903404 | ISBN 10: 0091903408
For three exhausting years Andrew Carroll travelled the world, zealously collecting unpublished letters and emails from soldiers and civilians from over 35 different countries. The letters covered a staggering range of events, from World Wars I and I ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780719566264 | ISBN 10: 0719566266
6 August 1945, 9.15 a.m. Six miles above Hiroshima, the bombardier of the Enola Gay releases an atomic bomb into the freezing skies. Seconds later, the city is obliterated in a single, monumental blast of fire. The destruction is immediate and catast ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781841154930 | ISBN 10: 1841154938
One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his arduous and nerve-wracking escape from Prague finally achieved - with the help of his mentor, the master illusionist Kornblum. But little does he real ... more
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£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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