Those Who Hold Bastogne: The True Story of the Soldiers and Civilians Who Fought in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge (Schrijvers Peter)(Paperback)

Those Who Hold Bastogne: The True Story of the Soldiers and Civilians Who Fought in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge (Schrijvers Peter)(Paperback)

A new telling of the brutal siege of Bastogne, where vastly outnumbered American forces held off a savage German onslaught and sealed the fate of the Third Reich Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The

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

Tanks in the Battle of the Bulge (Zaloga Steven J.)(Paperback)

A new analysis of exactly how Allied and German tanks fought the Battle of the Bulge, one of the great tank battles of World War II. The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were

The Tigers of Bastogne: Voices of the 10th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge (Collins Michael)(Paperback)

The gallant stand of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne has long become part of historical and media legend. But how many students of the war realize there was already a U.S. unit holding the town when they arrived? And this unit--the 10th Armored Division--continued to play a major role in

The Battle of the Bulge: A Graphic History of Allied Victory in the Ardennes, 1944-1945 (Vansant Wayne)(Paperback)

Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty-one American divisions - fully one-third of the U.S. Army raised during World War II - saw action in this battle

World's War - Forgotten Soldiers of Empire (Olusoga David)(Paperback / softback)

A unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War, and why they were later air-brushed out of

The Battle for Singapore: The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II (Thompson Peter)(Paperback)

The true story of the 'the greatest defeat and largest capitulation' in British military history. The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Ferrante Elena)(Paperback)

The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan Novels Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She

Lonely Courage - The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France (Stroud Rick)(Paperback / softback)

A unique, moving narrative of the women who volunteered to be trained by SOE and dropped into Nazi-held France to support the underground

The Spies Who Never Were: The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents (Haufler Hervie)(Paperback)

The thrilling true story of the daring double agents who thwarted Hitler's spy machine in Britain and turned the tide of World War II. After the fall of France in the mid-1940s, Adolf Hitler faced a British Empire that refused to negotiate for peace. With total war looming, he ordered the Abwehr,

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

Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation (McConnon Aili)(Paperback)

The inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and secretly aided the Italian resistance during World War II Gino Bartali is best known as an Italian cycling legend who not only won the Tour de France twice but also holds

Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge (Tolhurst Mike)(Paperback / softback)

By Christmas 1944, the Allies were on the threshold of victory, having remorselessly rolled the Germans back to the very borders of The Fatherland'

Serpico: The Classic Story of the Cop Who Couldn't Be Bought (Maas Peter)(Paperback)

THE CLASSIC TRUE STORY OF THE COP WHO COULDN'T BE BOUGHT'I don't think anyone can come away from Serpico without admiration for one man's lonely integrity.' --New York TimesWith an Afterword by Frank SerpicoThe 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in

Dunkirk - The Men They Left Behind (Longden Sean)(Paperback / softback)

The true story of the 41,000 British soldiers who were left behind after the evacuation of Dunkirk, May

Under the Wig - A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence (Clegg William)(Paperback / softback)

The vivid and gripping behind-the-scenes account by the QC who has fought some of the biggest murder trials in

The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus: 3rd Century BC (Sekunda Nicholas)(Paperback)

Fully illustrated story of the army of the Greek king who fought both Rome and Carthage in the 280s--270s BC, and gave the world the phrase a Pyrrhic victory for a success so costly that it counts as a defeat. Fully illustrated with detailed color plates, this is the story of one of the most

The Story of Hebrew (Glinert Lewis)(Paperback)

The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue,

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (Finkel Michael)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality--not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. 'A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival.' --The Wall Street

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

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (Holt Nathalia)(Paperback)

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group

The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (Giridharadas Anand)(Paperback)

The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed 'American terrorist' named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found

Frontline Walk - Following in the footsteps of those who fought (Whenham Terry)(Pevná vazba)

Strange Case of Thomas Quick - The Swedish Serial Killer and the Psychoanalyst Who Created Him (Josefsson Dan)(Paperback / softback)

The astonishing true story of the prisoner who posed as the worst serial killer in Swedish