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In this remarkably powerful book, James Bradley takes as his starting point one of the most famous photographs of all time.In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima and into a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire from 22,000 Japanese. After...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-02-15
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On May 7th, 1915 a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic sank with the loss of 1200 lives.On board were some world-famous figures, including multimillionaire Alfred Vanderbilt. But this wasn't the Titanic and there was no iceberg. The liner was the Lusitania and it was...
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Transworld Digital
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2011-01-25
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In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Rommel's Panzerarmee...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-15
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From 1939 until 1942, Hitler's U-boats - his 'grey wolves' - threatened to accomplish what his air force had hitherto been unable to achieve: to starve Britain into submission. The struggle for control of the Atlantic was to become the longest, and one of the most...
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Bbc Digital
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2010-12-15
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Although 50 years have passed since the end of World War II, there has as yet been no definitive history of that conflict. Existing histories have raised as many questions as they answer: Did Roosevelt have foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbour? Could the Allies...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-12-15
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Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42.Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-11-25
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Cutting-edge case studies examine the partisan and anti-partisan warfare which broke out across German-occupied eastern Europe during World War Two, showing how it was shaped in varied ways by factors including fighting power, political and economic structures,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-27
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Did the arms race of the 1930s cause the Second World War? In Cry Havoc, historian Joseph Maiolo shows, in rich and fascinating detail, how the deadly game of the arms race was played out in the decade prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. In this exhaustively...
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Basic Books
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2010-09-28
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"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world" First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with Germany. In...
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Penguin
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2010-09-02
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Over 8 million women stayed at home during the Second World War and their story has never been told. Using brand new research from the Mass-Observation Archive, Jennifer Purcell brings to life - in all its tragedy, pathos, joy and fear - the lives of six ordinary women...
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Constable
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2010-08-26
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In 1926, at the age of twenty, a trainee dentist called Bruno Langbehn joined the Nazi party. Growing up in a Germany that was impoverished and humiliated by the defeat of the First World War, and surrounded by a fiercely military environment, Bruno was one of the first...
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Penguin
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2010-08-26
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'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it, not even by...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-07-06
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Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts - many unpublished until now - this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with Britain's Special Operations Executive and the...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-07-06
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Operation Mincemeat retells the story of the classic World War Two intelligence plan to pass misleading strategic information to Hitler and his Generals that was immortalized in the 1956 Hollywood film The Man Who Never Was.
Drawing on a wealth of recently available...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-06-17
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Operation Mincemeat retells the story of the classic World War Two intelligence plan to pass misleading strategic information to Hitler and his Generals that was immortalized in the 1956 Hollywood film The Man Who Never Was.
Drawing on a wealth of recently available...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-06-16
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'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' ObserverIn February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most beautiful cities...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-06-10
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'A definitive record . . . The fact that we won is remarkable, and Holland brings the events vividly to life.' News of the World'Stuffed with personal accounts that drive the narrative along at a cracking pace.' Mail on Sunday____'Hitler knows that he will have to break...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-06-10
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Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-05-27
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Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-05-27
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The subject of the new major film by Christopher NolanIt could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British Army was successfully evacuated, and 'Dunkirk spirit' became synonymous with the...
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Ebury Digital
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2010-05-13
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