Forgotten Voices of the Great War: Told by Those Who Were There (Arthur Max)(Paperback)

Forgotten Voices of the Great War: Told by Those Who Were There (Arthur Max)(Paperback)

A fascinating history of World War I in the words of the men who were there -- 'an extraordinary and immensely moving book.' --Stephen Fry In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and

Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War - A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There (Arthur Max)(Paperback / softback)

The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during

Hillsborough Voices - The Real Story Told by the People Themselves (Sampson Kevin)(Paperback)

The real story of the Hillsborough disaster, told by the people who were there. On April 15, 1989 the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield: 96 people were crushed to death and another 766 injured in what later was admitted to be caused

Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust - A new history in the words of the men and women who survived (Smith Lyn)(Paperback / softback)

Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest

Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those Who Survived (Levine Joshua)(Paperback)

It is 1916, the Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of the First World War. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into historical consciousness, conjuring up images of muddy trenches and young lives tragically wasted. Its first day, July

Second Summer of Love - How Dance Music Took Over the World (Shulman Alon)(Paperback / softback)

The birth of acid house and club culture, as told by those who were there In 1987, four friends from London, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker, took a week-long holiday to Ibiza. What they saw there, and brought back home, would give rise to a new global music and

Don't Look Back in Anger: The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia, Told by Those Who Were There (Rachel Daniel)(Paperback)

The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national self-confidence. It was the decade of Lad Culture and

Forgotten Voices of the Falklands: The Real Story of the Falklands War (McManners Hugh)(Paperback)

Often referred to as a forgotten war, the Falklands conflict was the first war of the modern age, using satellite surveillance, night observation devices, and all the very latest weaponry military technology had to offer. It was also the first real media warthe public's perception of this far-off

Brief History of the First World War - Eyewitness Accounts of the War to End All Wars, 1914-18 (Lewis Jon E.)(Paperback / softback)

The First World War in vivid, personal detail, in the voices of those who lived

The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II (Freeman Gregory A.)(Paperback)

The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II--when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied

Cruel Crossing - Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees (Stourton Edward)(Paperback / softback)

Drawing on interviews with the few remaining survivors and the families of those who were there, Edward Stourton's vivid history of this little-known aspect of the Second World War is shocking, dramatic and intensely

Those Who Are Saved (Landau Alexis)(Paperback)

In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and We Must Be Brave, a heartbreaking World War II novel of one mother's impossible choice, and her search for her daughter against the odds. As a Russian Jewish migr to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the

Curtain Down at Her Majesty's: The Death of Queen Victoria in the Words of Those Who Were There (Richards Stewart)(Pevná vazba)

The Spitfire Story: Told by Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane (Hyams Jacky)(Paperback)

The Spitfire Story, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines of the Second World War.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming into its own during the Battle of Britain, it became famous

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Sassoon Siegfried)(Paperback / softback)

those who expect a universalization of the Great War must look for it elsewhere.'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, first published in 1930, is Siegfried Sassoon's fictionalized autobiography of the period between the early spring of 1916 and the summer of

Forgotten Man - A New History of the Great Depression (Shlaes Amity)(Paperback / softback)

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult

World's War - Forgotten Soldiers of Empire (Olusoga David)(Paperback / softback)

A unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War, and why they were later air-brushed out of

Wirral in the Great War (McGreal Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Fascinating and much forgotten story of Wirral's contribution to the Great

Brighton in the Great War (D'Enno Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Fascinating and much forgotten story of Brighton's contribution to the Great

Operation Pedestal - The Fleet That Battled to Malta 1942 (Hastings Max)(Pevná vazba)

The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY

Secret Life of Bletchley Park - The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There (McKay Sinclair)(Paperback / softback)

The first oral history of one of the most fascinating aspects of the war

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk (Levine Joshua)(Paperback / softback)

It 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 strength of the British people in adversity. On the same day that Winston Churchill

Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War (Bailey Roderick)(Paperback)

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines. This text shows how in the face of extreme danger and personal risk this select band of men and women helped tilt the

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 3) (Ferrante Elena)(Paperback)

Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by 'one of the great novelists of our time' (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times-bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into