Glamour Boys - The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler (Bryant Chris)(Paperback / softback)

Glamour Boys - The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler (Bryant Chris)(Paperback / softback)

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - The Mavericks who Plotted Hitler's Defeat (Milton Giles)(Paperback / softback)

The incredible story of the secret underground operations of the Second World

Luftwaffe Fighters' Battle of Britain (Goss Chris)(Paperback)

The story of how the outnumbered RAF fought and defeated the superior Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain will always be a source of fascination. However, accounts of summer 1940 have tended to centre on the British defenders, both in the air and on the ground, whilst the story of the losing German

Ritchie Boys - The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned to Fight Hitler (Henderson Bruce)(Paperback / softback)

'The last great, untold story of WWII... highly compelling' Daily

To War with Wellington - From the Peninsula to Waterloo (Snow Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The story of one of the world's greatest soldiers - and the men who fought with

Go-Betweens for Hitler (Urbach Karina)(Paperback)

This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential contacts and relations across Europe--especially in Britain, where their contacts included the press baron and Daily Mail

We Always Treat Women Too Well (Queneau Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

A story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is still in the lavatory some time after they have shot or expelled the rest of the

Flash Boys (Lewis Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistle blowers who tried to stop

Tank Men (Kershaw Robert)(Paperback / softback)

TANK MEN is the gripping first-hand story of the men and women who fought in tanks by a top military

Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter (Hutton Robert)(Paperback / softback)

June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World War, Britain's defence against the enemy

They Fought in the Fields - The Women's Land Army (Tyrer Nicola)(Paperback / softback)

The story of a forgotten

Spain in Our Hearts - Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Hochschild Adam)(Paperback / softback)

The remarkable story of the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil

Secret Darlington (Lloyd Chris)(Paperback / softback)

Secret Darlington explores the lesser-known history of the town of Darlington through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive

Bear who went to War (Pollock Alan)(Paperback / softback)

The true story of a bear cub adopted by Polish soldiers in WW2. Wojtek travelled, fought and ultimately emigrated with the soldiers, ending his days in Edinburgh

Lady Who Fought - A Young Woman's Account of the Anglo-Boer (Raal Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

Our Boys - The Story of a Paratrooper (Parr Helen)(Paperback / softback)

Whale Boy (Davies Nicola)(Paperback)

Perfect for any young reader who loves animals, the powerful and heartwarming story of a boy's friendship with a baby whaleMichael, a young boy growing up on the tropical island of Rose Town, has been saving up for his own fishing boat for years. But when a terrible storm wrecks his home, Michael

Entitled - A Critical History of the British Aristocracy (Bryant Chris)(Paperback / softback)

'A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing

Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth (Magness Jodi)(Paperback)

The dramatic story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire, as revealed by the archaeology of its famous site Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children--the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the

Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves (Sweet Matthew)(Paperback / softback)

'A remarkable story of subterfuge and brainwashing that few Hollywood scriptwriters could have made up' Simon Heffer, author of The Age of Decadence In 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, an exodus begins. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters escape the brutal fighting for the calm

Glory Boys (Reeman Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The tide of defeat is thought to be turning, the enemy no longer advancing along the North African coast with Egypt and India as final objectives, and Kearton's is a new war of stealth, subterfuge, and daring, in which the Glory Boys are only too

Marked for Death (Hamilton-Paterson James)(Paperback / softback)

An account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air

'48 (Herbert James)(Paperback)

In 1945, Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. Those who died at once were the lucky ones. The really unfortunate took years. The survivors; people like me who had the blood group that kept us safe from the disease were now targets for those who believed our

Scottish Suffragettes (Leneman Leah)(Paperback / softback)

This text looks at women who fought tirelessly for equality. It focuses on the Scottish women of all ages and from all backgrounds who were involved in the non-militant 'suffragist'