Words of War: The Story of the Second World War Revealed in Eye-Witness Letters, Speeches and Diaries (Richards Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

Words of War: The Story of the Second World War Revealed in Eye-Witness Letters, Speeches and Diaries (Richards Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches. Much as Letters of Note celebrated the great letters written

Barbarossa - And the Bloodiest War in History (Binns Stewart)(Pevná vazba)

Barbarossa is the story of the battle for the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of military

Bomb Girls: The Unsung Heroines of the Second World War (Hyams Jacky)(Paperback)

The story of Britain's hidden World War II heroines, in their own words. They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, moms, and teenage girls, all 'doing their bit' for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets, and war

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

Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of the First World War (Gannon Paul)(Pevná vazba)

The story of Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations in the Second World War is now well known, but its counterparts in the First World War - Room 40 & MI1(b) - remain in the shadows, despite their involvement in and influence on most of the major events of that war.From the First Battle of the

The True Story of the Christmas Truce: British and German Eyewitness Accounts from World War I (Richards Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

'One of them shouted 'A Merry Christmas English. We're not shooting tonight.' . . . then] they stuck up a light. Not to be outdone, so did we. Then up went another. So, we shoved up another. Soon the lines looked like an illuminated fete.' Rifleman Leslie WalkingtonOn Christmas Eve 1914, a group

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

Diaries of Nella Last - Writing in War and Peace (Malcolmson Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

Selections of Nella Last's vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project. It brings together into a single volume the best of Nella's prolific outpourings, including a great deal of new, unpublished material from the war

Mapping the Second World War - The History of the War Through Maps from 1939 to 1945 (Chasseaud Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert

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

I Embarked for France - The War Diaries and Letters of an English Family in the Great War(Paperback / softback)

Britain's Railways in the Second World War (Foley Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of the twentieth century, the task was to prove a

Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean During the Second World War (Hammond Richard)(Pevná vazba)

This is a major reassessment of the causes of Allied victory in the Second World War in the Mediterranean region. Drawing on a unique range of multinational source material, Richard Hammond demonstrates how the Allies' ability to gain control of the key routes across the sea and sink large

The Medic: A World War II Story of Imprisonment, Hope, and Survival (Swedberg Claire E.)(Pevná vazba)

Henry Chamberlain was one of the longest-term prisoners of war in World War II. Taken prisoner in the American surrender at Bataan in April 1942, he remained in Japanese captivity until September 1945. During three and a half years of imprisonment, as a medic he was a unique and unfortunate witness

The Undying Flame: Olympians Who Perished in the Second World War (McCrery Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

Over 60,000,000 people died worldwide during the course of the Second World War and, in contrast to those slaughtered in The Great War, it was civilian populations that bore the brunt. They perished in the Holocaust, in internment camps, in bombed towns and cities and as 'collateral damage', in war

Guests of the Third Reich: The British Prisoner of War Experience in Germany 1939-1945 (Richards Anthony)(Paperback)

More than 170,000 British prisoners of war were taken by German and Italian forces during World War II. Conditions were tough. Rations were meager. The days dragged and there was a constant battle against boredom. The men, but not officers, had to work, often at heavy labor. Guests of the Third

Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 (Todman Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

The second volume of Daniel Todman's account of Great Britain and World War II The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947, begins with the event Winston Churchill called the 'worst disaster' in British military

Anders Lassen VC, MC of the SAS (Langley Mike)(Pevná vazba)

The story of Anders Lassen is one of the most amazing and heroic of the Second World War - indeed in the history of the British armed services. He was awarded no less than three Military Crosses and the SAS regiment's only Victoria Cross. From the day he stalked and killed a stag armed only with a

Public Schools and the Second World War (Seldon Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

Following on from Public Schools and the Great War, Sir Anthony Seldon and David Walsh now examine those same schools in the Second World War. Privileged conservative traditions of private schools were challenged in the inter-war years by the changing social and political landscape, including a

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 Illustrated Letters of the Bronts: The Letters, Diaries and Writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront (Gardiner Juliet)(Pevná vazba)

The Illustrated Letters of the Bront s is the story both of the real world of the Bront s at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary worlds they spun for themselves in their novels and poetry. Wherever possible, their story is told using their

Forgotten Heroes: Aces of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in the Second World War (Stenge Csaba B.)(Pevná vazba)

Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces - including the Air Force - prepared to engage the Little Entente forces; however, after a short skirmish prior to the war with the Slovaks, during the war, their opponents became the Soviet and American aviators. The

Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II (Edele Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two. Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, the Soviet Union's war was both considerably longer and more

Ghosts of War: A History of World War I in Poems and Prose (Ferguson Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

The grand narratives of World War I focus on the action and strategy of combat: this masterful work retells the war in an accessible and genuinely moving way. This work tracks the progress of the global war using the words of more than 100 poets and writers. Their words bring the conflict to life