Our War: How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War (Somerville Christopher)(Paperback)

Our War: How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War (Somerville Christopher)(Paperback)

Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2 'Extraordinary ...If they had not made our war their war also, victory might not have come in 1945' DAILY TELEGRAPH In this powerful and moving narrative, Christopher Somerville skilfully links personal testimonies to present an epic

Get Tough!: How To Win In Hand To Hand Fighting (Fairbairn W. E.)(Paperback)

This book, by the man who taught them, shows how the British Commandos fought in the Second World War in unarmed hand-to hand combat. It shows how they won their fights - even against enemies who were bigger, stronger, and armed. Brute strength is not required. This book shows you how to put a

Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (Fennell Jonathan)(Paperback)

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the

A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War (Buchan Ursula)(Paperback)

The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain's World War Two gardeners -- with great ingenuity, invincible good humour and extraordinary fortitude -- dug for victory on home turf. 'A Green and Pleasant Land 'tells the intriguing and inspiring story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged

Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (Fennell Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War. Drawing on new sources to reveal the true wartime

The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won (Hanson Victor Davis)(Paperback)

A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to

The Second World War Through Soldiers' Eyes: British Army Life, 1939-1945 (Goulty James)(Paperback)

What was it really like to serve in the British Army during the Second World War?Discover a soldier's view of life in the British Army from recruitment and training to the brutal realities of combat. Using first-hand sources, James Goulty reconstructs the experiences of the men and women who made

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

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

Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War (Killingray David)(Paperback)

During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of the African

Last Heroes - Voices of British and Commonwealth Veterans (Bridson-Daley Gary)(Paperback / softback)

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In addition to remembering those that passed away in those dark days of war, a sincere debt of gratitude is owed to all those now in their twilight years who

Auntie's War - The BBC during the Second World War (Stourton Edward)(Paperback / softback)

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution unlike any other, and its story during the Second World War is also our story. Auntie's War is an incomparable insight into why we have the broadcast culture we do today. A BBC RADIO 4: BOOK OF THE

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

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

Our Man in New York - The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War (Hemming Henry)(Paperback / softback)

The extraordinary story of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert British operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring America into the Second World

British Battle Tanks: British-Made Tanks of World War II (Fletcher David)(Pevná vazba)

Building on the earlier volume dealing with British armor of the First World War, this is the second of a multi-volume history of British tanks by renowned British armor expert David Fletcher MBE. This volume traces the story of the British use of the tank through the early years of World War II,

Cold War - For Forty-five Years the World Held its Breath (Isaacs Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that dominated the world during these years. It is a story of crises and conflict on a global scale: from

Women in the Great War (Wynn Stephen)(Paperback)

The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and other such theaters of war, but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running. Before the war women in the

The Second World War: 1939-45 (Hatt Christine)(Paperback)

The Second World War 1939-45 examines the causes of the war and details the course of the conflict in Western Europe, the USSR, Africa and the Pacific. It also describes the experiences of civilians, resistance fighters, prisoners of war and Holocaust

To The Last Round - The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951 (Salmon Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

The story of the most desperate battle fought by British soldiers since World War

Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 (Allport Alan)(Paperback)

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan

Second Seminole War and the Limits of American Aggression (Monaco C. S.)(Paperback)

The Second Seminole War (1835-1842) was the last major conflict fought on American soil before the Civil War. The early battlefield success of the Seminoles unnerved US generals, who worried it would spark a rebellion among Indians newly displaced by President Andrew Jackson's removal policies. The

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

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