Kitted Out - Style and Youth Culture in the Second World War (Young Caroline)(Paperback / softback)

Kitted Out - Style and Youth Culture in the Second World War (Young Caroline)(Paperback / softback)

The first book to fully explore the uniform and style of young people in the Second World

Mission 101 - The Untold Story of the SOE and the Second World War in Ethiopia (McNab Duncan)(Paperback / softback)

In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World War's most daring operations and the first for Britain's legendry Special Operations

Britain's War Machine - Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War (Edgerton David)(Paperback / softback)

The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. This title shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests and sitting at the heart of a global

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

Millions Like Us - Women's Lives in the Second World War (Nicholson Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of 'Total War' millions of women demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. This title tells

Children Who Stayed Behind (Carter Bruce)(Paperback / softback)

In the Backstory you can find out more about the Second World War and hear from Deborah Moggach, the author's daughter, what inspired this wartime tale!Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their

The Cambridge History of the Second World War, Volume 3: Total War: Economy, Society and Culture (Geyer Michael)(Paperback)

The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural

Second World War (Keegan John)(Paperback / softback)

In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text concentrates on five crucial battles with the aim of illuminating the war as a whole: Crete, Midway, Falaise, Berlin and

Promise - The Moving Story of a Family in the Holocaust (Powers Barbara)(Paperback / softback)

A true story of a young Jewish girl and her brother growing up during the Second World War, caught in a world turned upside down by the Nazis. It is intended for

Airborne (Radcliffe Robert)(Paperback / softback)

The story of the Second World War as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary young man in quite extraordinary

Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying - The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs (Neitzel Sonke)(Paperback / softback)

A remarkable, controversial book about Germany's soldiers in the Second World War drawn from transcriptions of their secretly recorded

New Order (Weitz Chris)(Paperback / softback)

The second book in The Young World

Ragnarok - The End of the Gods (Byatt A.S.)(Paperback / softback)

As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively

Wiltshire at War Through Time (Buckton Henry)(Paperback / softback)

Exploring in full colour the history of Wiltshire in the Second World War and what remains

Strategy and the Second World War: How the War Was Won, and Lost (Black Jeremy)(Paperback)

This concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War fills a gap in a way that is timely, with the eightieth anniversary of the war becoming global taking place in 2021. In 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and British interests in the Far

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

Fashion in the 1950s (Milford-Cottam Daniel)(Paperback)

More than a footnote to the Second World War, or a foreword to the youth-obsessed exhilaration of the Sixties, the Fifties was a thrilling decade devoted to newness and freshness. The British people, rebuilding their lives and wardrobes, demanded modern materials, vibrant patterns and exciting

Peter in Peril - Courage and Hope in World War Two (Bate Helen)(Paperback / softback)

A moving graphic novel telling the true story of a young boy caught up in the terror of World War

Trieste (Drndic Dasa)(Paperback / softback)

A novel that exposes the abduction of young children during the Second World War, through the extraordinary story of a mother's search for her

Princes at War - The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War (Cadbury Deborah)(Paperback / softback)

World War 1 - When the lights went out in Europe, Liam and Aoife's story (Smith Rod)(Paperback / softback)

Mr Churchill's Secretary (MacNeal Susan Elia)(Paperback / softback)

Maggie Hope, a young American in London during the second world war, finds herself being drawn into a secretive world of spies, code-breaking and

My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright (Williams Marcia)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating diary account of the Second World War, as seen through the eyes of a young

The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (Kochanski Halik)(Paperback)

The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last. The conflict was brutal, as Polish armies battled the enemy on four different fronts. It