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Military history
Second World War
By Antony Beevor
Hardback
Published 07-Jun-2012
| RRP: | £25.00 |
| Our price: | £20.00 |
| You save: | £5.00 |
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian
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Bloodlands
By Timothy Snyder
Paperback
Published 01-Sep-2011
| RRP: | £10.99 |
| Our price: | £8.79 |
| You save: | £2.20 |
In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. This book offers an investigation into the motives and methods of Stalin and Hitler, and pays special attention to the testimony of the victims.
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Secret Life of Bletchley Park
By Sinclair McKay
Paperback
Published 01-Aug-2011
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| Our price: | £7.19 |
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The first oral history of one of the most fascinating aspects of the war effort.
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Millions Like Us
By Virginia Nicholson
Paperback
Published 15-Mar-2012
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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 demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. This title tells the story of the women's Second World War.
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Spy Who Loved
By Clare Mulley
Paperback
Published 11-Apr-2013
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The remarkable story of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, George Medal, OBE and Croix de Guerre.
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Homage to Catalonia
By George Orwell
Paperback
Published 03-Jan-2013
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Offers an account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War. The author brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode.
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Sisters
By Barbara Mortimer
Paperback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses. This title features over 150 unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing.
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Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying
By Harald Welzer
Paperback
Published 20-Jun-2013
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A remarkable, controversial book about Germany's soldiers in the Second World War drawn from transcriptions of their secretly recorded conversations
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Cities Under Siege
By Stephen Graham
Paperback
Published 01-Nov-2011
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How cities have become the new sites for military focus.
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Trautmann's Journey
By Catrine Clay
Paperback
Published 03-Mar-2011
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Every football fan knows the legend of Bert Trautmann. From an amateur footballer working on a bomb disposal unit in Liverpool, to celebrated Manchester City goalkeeper adored by thousands, this title charts Trautmann's conversion from Hitler Youth star to all-England football hero.
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