Military history
Double Cross
By Ben MacIntyre
Paperback
Published 30-Aug-2012
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From the Number One bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, comes a new true story of Second World War deception
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Second World War
By Antony Beevor
Hardback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian
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All Hell Let Loose
By Max Hastings
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Published 26-Apr-2012
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A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children.
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Testament of Youth
By Vera Brittain
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Published 20-Apr-1978
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* A unique record of one woman's experience of twenty-five of the most cataclysmic years in modern history - and a Virago Classic bestseller - with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge
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Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance
By Stephen Grady
Hardback
Published 14-Feb-2013
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An extraordinary French Resistance wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.
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Commander
By Stephen Taylor
Hardback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick to welcome a gallant foe into his cabin as to dive to the rescue of a man overboard. This title presents his portrait.
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Train in Winter
By Caroline Moorehead
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Published 06-Sep-2012
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On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. This title presents the story of these women.
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Finish
By Mark Bowden
Hardback
Published 16-Oct-2012
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In his most important and commercial book since Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden draws on unprecedented access to the figures involved to produce the definitive account of the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
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Black Count
By Tom Reiss
Hardback
Published 20-Sep-2012
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Born in St Dominigue in 1762, the son of a French nobleman and a sugar plantation slave, General Alexandre Dumas did not have an auspicious start in life. This book traces the almost unbelievable life of the man who inspired not only Monte Cristo, but all three of the Musketeers: the novelist's own father.
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Bloodlands
By Timothy Snyder
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Published 01-Sep-2011
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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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