Remarkable Journeys of the Second World War: A Collection of Untold Stories (Bacon Victoria Panton)(Paperback)

Remarkable Journeys of the Second World War: A Collection of Untold Stories (Bacon Victoria Panton)(Paperback)

Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with a wide range of veterans following the publication of her grandfather's wartime memoir, Victoria Panton Bacon has gathered a moving collection of their

Day The War Ended - Untold true stories from the last days of the war (Hyams Jacky)(Paperback / softback)

Snapshots of Britain during the momentous events which brought the Second World War to a

Poems from the Second World War (Morgan Gaby)(Paperback)

Poems From the Second World War is a moving and powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts, and family and friends who experienced WWII from different standpoints. The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 to collect and display material relating to World War

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

Voices from the Second World War - Witnesses share their stories with the children of today(Paperback / softback)

Second World War (Gilbert Sir Martin)(Paperback / softback)

A striking new edition of the most authoritative account of the Second World War by one of the greatest living military

Sisters in Arms (Tyrer Nicola)(Paperback)

The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War. The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain largely untold. Thousands of middle-class

Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (Dahl Roald)(Paperback / softback)

During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan desert. Drawing on his own experience as a fighter pilot, Dahl crafted these ten spine-tingling stories: of air battles in the sky; of the nightmare of being shot down; of the

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

Escape or Die - True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War (Brickhill Paul)(Paperback / softback)

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

The Cambridge History of the Second World War, Volume 1: Fighting the War (Ferris John)(Paperback)

The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War a team of twenty-five leading

Memoirs of the Second World War (Churchill Winston S.)(Paperback)

The quintessential account of the Second World War as seen by Winston Churchill, its greatest leader As Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945, Winston Churchill was not only the most powerful player in World War II but also the free world's most eloquent voice of defiance in the face of

Animals in the Second World War (Storey Neil R.)(Paperback)

Throughout the course of the Second World War, many millions of animals were enlisted to serve. Though they had no choice, yet they demonstrated loyalty, determination and bravery as they shared the burden of war with their human companions both on active service and on the Home Front. From the

Suffolk Airfields in the Second World War (Smith Graham)(Paperback)

A full account of the part played by Suffolk's airfields during the Second World War. The history of each airfield is described with the squadrons and aircraft based at them and the main operations flown. The effects of the war on the daily lives of civilians, and the constant dangers from raids

World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories (Shirley John)(Paperback)

The world is at war against things that slink and gibber in the darkness, and titans that stride from world to world, sewing madness and death. War has existed in one form or another since the dawn of human civilization, and before then, Elder terrors battled it out across this planet and this

The Other Veterans of World War II: Stories from Behind the Front Lines (Simmons Rona)(Pevná vazba)

The untold stories of troops serving miles away from front lines For decades, the dramatic stories of World War II soldiers have been the stuff of memoirs, interviews, novels, documentaries, and feature films. Yet the men and women who served in less visible roles, never engaging in physical

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

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

Spanish Republicans and the Second World War: Republic Across the Mountains (Whitehead Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Spanish Republicans and the Second World War tells the stories of the 500,000 Spanish Republicans that fled across the Pyrenees in 1939 as Catalonia fell to Franco's victorious army in the final weeks of the Civil War. Many of the exiles played an active part in the Second World War. Some joined

The Jeep: Second World War (Cole Lance)(Paperback)

The Second World War Jeep was one of the most famous and influential military vehicles of all time, and over 600,000 were produced. It served with all the Allied forces during the war on every front and it has been the inspiration behind the design of light, versatile, rugged military and civilian

A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies (Taithe Bertrand)(Paperback)

A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering history of the men and women who waged the struggle against the axis as members of the armed

Gathering Storm - The Second World War (Churchill Winston)(Paperback / softback)

A six-volume history of the Second World

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