Day The War Ended - Untold true stories from the last days of the war (Hyams Jacky)(Paperback / softback)

Day The War Ended - Untold true stories from the last days of the war (Hyams Jacky)(Paperback / softback)

Snapshots of Britain during the momentous events which brought the Second World War to a

After Hitler - The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe (Jones Michael)(Paperback / softback)

The fascinating and little-known history of the last days of the Second World War in

Last Days of New Paris (Mieville China)(Paperback / softback)

A thriller of a war that never was. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Mieville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something

Ghost Riders - Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses (Felton Mark)(Paperback / softback)

GIs and Germans join forces in a thrilling true adventure story from the last days of the Second World

Bomb Girls: The Unsung Heroines of the Second World War (Hyams Jacky)(Paperback)

The story of Britain's hidden World War II heroines, in their own words. They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, moms, and teenage girls, all 'doing their bit' for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets, and war

Indian Empire At War - From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War (Morton-Jack George)(Paperback / softback)

The first global narrative military history of the Indian troops on all fronts who fought with the British in the Great

Epitaphs of the Great War: The Last 100 Days (Wearne Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Epitaphs of the Great War: The Last 100 Days is the third instalment in a collection that presents headstone inscriptions from the graves of soldiers killed during World War I. Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters, these inscriptions are masterpieces of compact

The War That Never Ended: A Short History of the Korean War (Kerr Gordon)(Paperback)

The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War in which forces of major nations of the two opposing systems--capitalism and communism--confronted each other on the battlefield. And yet, in the

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Světlana Alexijevičová

Extraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? A whole world is

The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 (Lewis-Stempel John)(Paperback)

The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy. On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely

Six Days - How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East (Bowen Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliantly compelling new history of the 1967 Six-Day War, by the BBC's distinguished former Middle East

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Oren Michael B.)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally--now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped

Indian Empire At War - From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War (Morton-Jack George)(Pevná vazba)

A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian

The Other Veterans of World War II: Stories from Behind the Front Lines (Simmons Rona)(Pevná vazba)

The untold stories of troops serving miles away from front lines For decades, the dramatic stories of World War II soldiers have been the stuff of memoirs, interviews, novels, documentaries, and feature films. Yet the men and women who served in less visible roles, never engaging in physical

Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, and Little-Known Stories from History (Wagner Tricia Martineau)(Paperback)

When the Civil War ended black men left in large numbers to find a way to make a living in the Old West. They were hard working, industrious men who were determined to carve out a life for themselves on the wild, roaming plains out West. The Old West was a land of opportunity for these adventurous

Hundred Days - The End of the Great War (Lloyd Nick)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. In this study, the author examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, it traces the story of the next four months, which

The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book (Everitt Chris)(Paperback)

Bomber Command s campaign started on the very first day of the Second World War and ended within a few hours of the final victory in Europe five and a half years later. It was an attempt to win the war in Europe by strategic bombing on such an enormous scale that historians have only recently begun

Voices from the Second World War - Witnesses share their stories with the children of today(Paperback / softback)

Remarkable Journeys of the Second World War: A Collection of Untold Stories (Bacon Victoria Panton)(Paperback)

Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with a wide range of veterans following the publication of her grandfather's wartime memoir, Victoria Panton Bacon has gathered a moving collection of their

On This Day in History (Snow Dan)(Paperback / softback)

3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite

World War Two: Behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West (Rees Laurence)(Paperback / softback)

When do you think the Second World War ended? If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of the countries in Eastern Europe simply

Embers of War (Hall RJJ)(Paperback / softback)

Inspired by a passion for Italy, Embers of War is set in the dying days of the Second World War. This well-researched novel evokes the spirit and mores of the forgotten Italian

The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II (Brown Don)(Paperback)

*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a 'must-read' book. From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafe missions out of Iwo Jima over Japan. Even days after America dropped the

Good War - Why We Couldn't Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan (Fairweather Jack)(Paperback / softback)

In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph, a 'good war' in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. This book explores the intentions and hubris that caused the West's strategy in Afghanistan to flounder, refuting the long-held notion that the war could have been