German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in a Yorkshire Camp (Buckley Anne)(Pevná vazba)

German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in a Yorkshire Camp (Buckley Anne)(Pevná vazba)

In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back to Germany. Through vivid text and illustrations they describe in detail their experience of life in captivity in a camp at

Captives of War: British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War (Makepeace Clare)(Pevná vazba)

This is a pioneering history of the experience of captivity of British prisoners of war (POWs) in Europe during the Second World War, focussing on how they coped and came to terms with wartime imprisonment. Clare Makepeace reveals the ways in which POWs psychologically responded to surrender, the

Prisoners on Cannock Chase: Great War POWs and Brockton Camp (Pursehouse Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Over the course of many years Richard Pursehouse has painstakingly unraveled the story of a First World War prisoner of war camp which held captured German personnel in the very heart of the English countryside. He first became aware of the existence of the camp while walking over Cannock Chase in

Confidence Men - How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History (Fox Margalit)(Pevná vazba)

The astonishing true story of two First World War prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all

Belgium in the Great War (Veranneman Jean-Michel)(Pevná vazba)

In August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgian army resisted and fought on, holding a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres, alongside the British and French armies, until the Armistice of

Freedom Trails: Great Escapes from World War I to the Korean War (Treadwell Terry C.)(Paperback)

For most prisoners of war in the Second World War, life behind bars was nothing like the films. The tales of brave escape attempts told in accounts such as the iconic film The Great Escape are exciting enough, but how much of the detail is true? In Great Escapes ex-RAF officer and researcher for

For the Honor of Our Fatherland: German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War (Norrell Tracey Hayes)(Pevná vazba)

For the Honor of Our Fatherland: German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War focuses on the German Jews' role in reconstructing Poland's war-ravaged countryside. The Germany Army assigned rabbis to serve as chaplains in the German Army and to support and minister to their own Jewish

The Medic: A World War II Story of Imprisonment, Hope, and Survival (Swedberg Claire E.)(Pevná vazba)

Henry Chamberlain was one of the longest-term prisoners of war in World War II. Taken prisoner in the American surrender at Bataan in April 1942, he remained in Japanese captivity until September 1945. During three and a half years of imprisonment, as a medic he was a unique and unfortunate witness

Guests of the Third Reich: The British Prisoner of War Experience in Germany 1939-1945 (Richards Anthony)(Paperback)

More than 170,000 British prisoners of war were taken by German and Italian forces during World War II. Conditions were tough. Rations were meager. The days dragged and there was a constant battle against boredom. The men, but not officers, had to work, often at heavy labor. Guests of the Third

Yorkshire Steam 1948-1968 (Tuffrey Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Great photography of locomotives on Yorkshire's railways in the final years of steam traction. Compiled with thoroughly researched, informative

The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War (Kavalerchik Boris)(Pevná vazba)

The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a key element in any assessment of the conflict on the Eastern Front. Since the war ended over seventy years ago, the statistics have been a source of bitter controversy, of claim

German Machine Guns of the Second World War (Seidler Hans)(Pevná vazba)

German Machine Guns of the Second World War is a highly illustrated record of the German war machine between 1939 - 1945. Many of the photographs, all from the author's collection, come originally from the albums of individuals who took part in the war.Arranged by theater chronologically, the book

Great Lives in Graphics: Anne Frank (Button Books)(Pevná vazba)

This graphic retelling of Anne's story gives children a visual snapshot of her life and the world she grew up

The Life Scientific: Detectives (Buckley Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Their work is changing the world we live in, but what do we really know about their lives beyond the lab? Based on interviews for the hit BBC Radio 4 series, The Life Scientific: Detectives reveals the life and work of some of the foremost scientists in the world, from Nobel laureates to the next

The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War (Buckley Henry)(Paperback)

In 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The copies of the book, stored in a warehouse in London, were destroyed during the Blitz and only a handful of copies of his unique chronicle were saved

German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighborhood in the Holy City (Sparr Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

In the 1920s, before the establishment of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many

Personal Effects of the German Soldier in World War II (Mason Chris)(Pevná vazba)

German soldiers, sailors and airmen of WWII went to war with a fascinating variety of personal effects in their pockets and knapsacks. This book explores this most personal, private, and often poignant aspect of military history, through a study of the small items German soldiers used in the

Rations of the German Wehrmacht in World War II: Vol 2 (Pool Jim)(Pevná vazba)

Stalag 383 Bavaria: A History of the Camp, the Escapes and the Liberation (Wynn Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Stalag 383 was somewhat unique as a Second World War prisoner of war camp. Located in a high valley surrounded by dense woodland and hills in Hofenfels, Bavaria, it began life in 1938 as a training ground for the German Army. At the outbreak of war it was commandeered by the German authorities for

RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War: Thinking the Unthinkable (Walpole Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

_RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War_ is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic Republic by a small Anglo/German team of military specialists. Their purpose was to explore the lives of RAF and East German fighter and

The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters - Buckley Anna

The inspiring life stories of leading scientists as heard on BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have

Blitz Diary: Life Under Fire in the Second World War (Harris Carol)(Pevná vazba)

During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect

War of the Worlds, The (Wells H. G.)(Pevná vazba)

Great reads for all ages! The world's greatest classic stories come to life in these expert retellings. Baker Street Readers give an enchanting taste of the original tales, quoting best-known lines and most memorable moments, all supported with wonderfully witty and sometimes scary illustrations.An

A Web of Silk (Buckley Fiona)(Pevná vazba)

Ursula's quiet life on her Surrey estate is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a new neighbour in this absorbing Tudor mystery. August, 1582. The queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has ordered Ursula to keep an eye on her new neighbour, Giles Frost, who is rumoured to be spying for King