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Richard Knott During the Second World War, British artists produced over 6,000 works of war art, but this is not a book about art, rather the stories of nine courageous war artists... | Jonathan Dimbleby A unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed ... |
Arthur Aldridge; Mark Ryan Action-packed Second World War memoir by the UK's last living torpedo pilots. | Sonke Neitzel; Harald Welzer A remarkable, controversial book about Germany's soldiers in the Second World War drawn from transcriptions of their secretly recorded conversations |
Andrew Martin The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission. | Stuart Tootal D-Day as it has never been told before |
Ian Kershaw In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with victors, if only in an attempt to save... | Antony Beevor A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian |
Barbara Mortimer On 3 September 1939 the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Germany. Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into... | Stephen Bull Tells the story of the physical, emotional and psychological journey of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Normandy to the ruins of Berlin. This book also tells us what it... |
Antony Beevor The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some... | Andrew Robertshaw An army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too - yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed amidst hails... |
Ben Macintyre From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag. The thrilling true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attempted A Richard & Judy Book Club selection | Virginia Nicholson 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... |
Jan Karski During the first four years of World War II, Jan Karski worked as a messenger for the underground, risking his life in secret missions. He was captured, tortured, rescued, smuggled... | Peter J. Conradi An untold story of love, idealism and courage in the Second World War |