"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...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-08-26

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Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts - many unpublished until now - this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with Britain's Special Operations Executive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...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 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...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2010-05-13

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The first proper biography of Germany's most controversial military hero.The story of the military genius Field Marshal Erich von Manstein chronicles the misguided generation of German generals in the Second World War who claimed they fought for Germany, not for Hitler...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-05-06

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The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War - the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940. Exposing many of the myths surrounding the conflict, the book provides...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-05-06

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6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Initiated by airborne units and covered by air and naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were the most ambitious combined airborne and amphibious...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2010-01-26

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'The things I saw completely defy description': when British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they uncovered scenes of horror and depravity that shocked the world. But they also confronted a terrible challenge - inside the camp were some...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2009-11-10

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German policy in occupied France during the Second World War was in many ways a story of bitter internal conflict between the variousGerman agencies in charge of the occupation. After the Fall provides a detailed analysis of the struggle between these different...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-05

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German policy in occupied France during the Second World War was in many ways a story of bitter internal conflict between the variousGerman agencies in charge of the occupation. After the Fall provides a detailed analysis of the struggle between these different...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-05

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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.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2009-10-06

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From the beginning of his mission as a British agent against the Nazis, Ronald Seth was a hunted man. Shot at as he parachuted down to the Estonian coast, he suffered extremes of deprivation before being captured and sentenced to death by hanging. And then the real hunt...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2009-09-03

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'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The TimesRichard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace before the outbreak of World War Two.24 August 1939: The fate of the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-08-27

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