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Secret Alliances
Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective
Tony Insall

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The Day the War Ended
Untold True Stories from the Last Days of the War
Jacky Hyams
The end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945 was an occasion for jubilation throughout the UK – and also a time of painful adjustment. Revealing the stories of ordinary men and women, including her own family, Jacky Hyams tells of relatives mourning their losses, lovers reunited, children adapting to fathers they hardly knew, rationing that would continue for years, and the birth of the Welfare State.

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Every Last Jew
A Teenage Boy's Story of Survival
Mark Koperweis

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The Third Reich's Celluloid War
Propaganda in Nazi Feature Films, Documentaries and Television
Ian Garden

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Organizing Victory
The War Conferences 1941–45
Andrew Rawson

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Double Agent Victoire
Mathilde Carré and the Interallié Network
David Tremain

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Churchill's Spy Files
MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports
Nigel West

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Very Special Intelligence
The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre 1939–1945
Patrick Beesley;Intro. WJR Gardner;After. Ralph Erskine

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RAF Liberator Over the Eastern Front
A Bomb Aimer's Second World War and Cold War Story
Jim Auton

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Marching to the Sound of Gunfire
North-West Europe 1944–1945
Patrick Delaforce

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Frankforce and the Defence of Arras 1940
Battleground Europe
Jerry Murland;Ed. Nigel Cave

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An Englishman Abroad
SOE Agent Dick Mallaby's Italian Missions, 1943–45
Gianluca Barneschi

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Chanel's Riviera
Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d'Azur, 1930–1944
Anne de Courcy

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Upstairs and Downstairs
My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid
Hilda Newman;Tim Tate

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The Blitz
Operations Manual
Chris McNab
The German bombs that fell on British cities between September 1940 and May 1941 claimed 43,000 lives and left many more injured and homeless. Illustrated throughout with original photographs and plans, this handbook details the measures taken to withstand the onslaught, both military (anti-aircraft guns, searchlights and barrage balloons) and civilian (air-raid wardens and fire and ambulance services).

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Defying Hitler
The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas;Greg Lewis
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Crucible of Hell
Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
Saul David

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Hurricane
The Plane that Saved Britain
Adrian Stewart
Often unfairly eclipsed by the Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane was vital to Britain’s survival in the Second World War. This book details the plane’s construction, its varied service as a fighter, fighter-bomber and anti-tank aircraft, and its crucial role in France, the Battle of Britain and North Africa. It also recounts the exploits of Hurricane pilots such as Billy Fiske and Group Captain Peter Townsend.

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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die
How the Allies Won on D-Day
Giles Milton
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Hunting the Truth
Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
Beate Klarsfeld;Serge Klarsfeld;Trans. Sam Taylor

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Hitler's Last Plot
The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II
Ian Sayer;Jeremy Dronfield
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Among the Headhunters
An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival in the Burmese Jungle
Robert Lyman
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The War on Paper
20 Documents That Defined the Second World War
Anthony Richards
From the Anglo-German Declaration, Chamberlain’s final attempt at appeasement, signed in Munich in September 1938, to the Instrument of Surrender signed on Lüneberg Heath on 4 May 1945, this volume draws on the Imperial War Museum’s document collection and photographic archive to trace the course of the war through military and political papers, and through examples of the documents that governed civilian life, such as Kindertransport identity papers and Air Raid Precautions cards for householders.

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Guests of the Third Reich
Anthony Richards

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Fighter Boys
The Pilots Behind the Battle of Britain
Patrick Bishop
This bestselling account of the Battle of Britain weaves together the personal experiences of the young pilots of Fighter Command, from the Phoney War of 1939 to the massed German raids of Autumn 1940. The stories reveal fear and bravery as well as lighter moments, including the pilot who was shot down over Dartford and went dancing in London before returning to his squadron, and give an insight into the spirit and character of the celebrated 'few'.

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Air Force Blue
The RAF in World War Two
Patrick Bishop
This history of the RAF in wartime explores the experiences of men and women at every level of the organization, and covers leisure time, discipline and sickness as well as combat. With extensive maps and photos, and drawing on first-hand accounts, sound archives and official documents, the author also acknowledges the complexity of Bomber Command’s strategy in the final stages of the war, and the pilots’ moral qualms.

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Women of the Home Front
Serving the Nation in Photographs
Intro. Elisabeth Shipton
This photographic survey records the work and contributions of women on the Home Front in a wide variety of services and military branches supporting the war effort. With around 150 images, it illustrates the breadth of roles they filled, from agriculture, policing and meteorology to building bomber engines and maintaining anti-aircraft guns.

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City Boys at War
The Lloyd's Battery 1938–1940: A Gunner's Perspective
Peter Ledger
This wartime account is based on a collection of letters between the author’s aunt and uncle, an insurance broker who was recruited alongside colleagues shortly after their wedding to join the Royal Artillery’s Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment. He was subsequently involved in the evacuation of Allied troops and French refugees via western ports from Brittany to Marseilles in Operation Aerial, the importance of which this book argues has been overlooked.

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Rising Son
A US Soldier's Secret and Heroic Role in World War II
Sandra Vea

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A Soldier's Story
Mike Wood

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Home Fronts
Britain and the Empire at War, 1939–45
Ed. Mark J Crowley;Sandra Trudgen Dawson
In 1939, Britain went to war as a great imperial power and the food shortages and rationing, conscripted labour, censorship and curtailed freedoms suffered on the British home front, were experienced throughout the empire. In twelve essays, the contributors to this volume examine various aspects of civilian life in wartime Palestine, India, South Africa, Kenya and Australia as well as Britain.

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Dutch Courage
Special Forces in the Netherlands 1944–1945
Jelle Hooiveld
With contemporary photos and eyewitness accounts, this volume tells the story of the ‘Jedburgh’ groups created by the SOE and OSS and deployed in the Netherlands from September 1944. Following recruitment and training, they cooperated with local resistance fighters and supported major Allied campaigns, including Market Garden and the less well-known SAS operations Amherst and Keystone.

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The Defeat of the Luftwaffe
The Eastern Front 1941–45 | A Strategy for Disaster
Jonathan Trigg

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Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler
How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War
Adrian Phillips
The 1930s policy of appeasement has sometimes been defended as a necessary evil which allowed the military more time to expand its capacity. Phillips argues against this justification, describing in detail how Neville Chamberlain and his advisor Horace Wilson were determined to avoid ‘provoking’ Hitler, and suggesting that by manipulating the media and politicians into supporting appeasement they hampered preparations for the coming war.

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Wimbledon, Merton and Morden at War 1939 – 45
Ruth Mansergh

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Weapons of Desperation
German Frogmen and Midget Submarines of the Second World War
Lawrence Paterson

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A Tale of Ten Spitfires
Spitfire V Verses the Fw190 - The Combat Histories of Supermarine Spitfire Vcs AR501 to AR510
Andrew Critchell

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Sussex at War 1939 – 45
Your Towns and Cities in World War Two
Clifford Mewett

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Section D for Destruction
Forerunner of SOE
Malcolm Atkin

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Secret Days
Code-Breaking in Bletchley Park
Asa Briggs
Renowned as one of England's foremost historians, Asa Briggs turns to his own role in wartime code-breaking, which he kept secret for many years. His meticulously researched account of daily life at Bletchley Park covers the various types of work done there, from cryptography to catering, and also provides a fascinating first-hand insight into the diverse and vibrant community and social life of the two camps where the employees were accommodated.

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Ladies of Lascaris
Christina Ratcliffe and the Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War
Paul McDonald

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Junkers Ju 88
The Twilight Years: Biscay to the Fall of Germany
Chris Goss

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Hitler's Wartime Orders
The Complete Fuhrer Directives 1939-1945
Ed. Bob Carruthers

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Hitler's Revenge Weapons
The Final Blitz of London
Nigel Walpole
From June 1944 onwards, V1 and V2 rockets caused 31,000 casualties and damaged 1.6 million houses in London alone. The author of this history, who grew up during the Blitz, weaves his own memories of the attacks into this detailed history of the development of the terrifying ‘doodlebugs’ at the infamous Peenemunde missile development site, while acknowledging the way that the Germans’ engineering feats underpinned post-war rocketry and space travel.

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Hitler's Atrocities Against Allied PoWs
War Crimes of the Third Reich
Philip D Chinnery

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Henry Harwood
Hero of the River Plate
Peter Hore

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From Sapper to Spitfire Spy
The WWII Biography of David Greville-Heygate DFC
SA Greville-Heygate

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Falaise: The Flawed Victory
The Destruction of Panzergruppe West August 1944
Anthony Tucker-Jones

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Dunkirk: Nine Days that Saved an Army
A Day by Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation
John Grehan
Although the evacuation of Dunkirk was an undoubted success, it was nevertheless a chaotic period, with soldiers shelled and strafed on the shore, small boats colliding in the dark and vessels lost with all on board. Reports and records from the Navy and the Army are supplemented by the first-hand accounts of the rescued and the rescuers in this detailed, day-by-day account of the drama.

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D-Day and the Cover-Up at Pointe du Hoc
2nd and 5th US Army Rangers 1 May–June 1944: Volume 2
Gary Sterne

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Churchill and Tito
Soe, Bletchley Park and Supporting the Yugoslav Communists in World War II
Christopher Catherwood

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Madame Fourcade's Secret War
The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
Lynne Olson
In 1941 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade became the leader of Alliance, the largest Resistance network in occupied France. This book tells how the chic, 31-year-old mother from a privileged background ran a network of 3,000 agents passing vital intelligence to the British, and how, while many of her colleagues – including her lover – were captured and executed, she daringly escaped the Gestapo to survive the war.

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Defending the Rock
Gibraltar and the Second World War
Nicholas Rankin
Gibraltar has been an indispensable naval fortress since 1704, yet in July 1940 it was threatened on four sides: by Vichy France, Nazi Germany, and fascist Italy and Spain. This history of the Rock’s strategic importance during the war also explores the pre-war imperial incursions in the Mediterranean region, which would threaten Gibraltar as a wartime escape route and key link in the ‘steel chain of sea power’.

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Christmas at War
Heartwarming True Stories of How Britain Came Together on the Home Front
Caroline Taggart
Gleaned from first-person interviews, diaries and letters, this collection of festive wartime recollections evokes a less materialistic, more stoic world. From memories of resourceful makeshift dinners, handmade presents and carol singing during the black-out to an account of Christmas day in Colditz, the stories range in tone from humorous to heartbreaking.

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The Devil's Diary
Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Robert K Wittman;David Kinney

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War over the Steppes
The Air Campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941–45
ER Hooton
The extreme conditions and expanse of the Eastern Front made it a challenging theatre for the rival air forces, involving an extensive array of bomber, fighter, naval, attack and transport aircraft. This analysis of the conflict assesses the strategy and tactics of the commanders as well as the equipment employed and the experiences of pilots and groundcrew.

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Operation Oyster
The Daring Low Level Raid on the Philips Radio Works
Kees Rijken;Paul Schepers;Arthur Thorning
The Philips Radio Works in Eindhoven in the occupied Netherlands was a key radar and communication hub for the Third Reich. In December 1942, 93 allied aircraft launched a risky attack on it, causing significant damage and hindering German radio navigational technology, an achievement which the authors of this account argue should be recognised alongside the more famous Dambusters raid.

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Bomber Offensive
Arthur Harris

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Heath Robinson's Second World War
W Heath Robinson
As a ‘humorous artist’, W Heath Robinson (1872–1944) revelled in the possibilities offered by the home front and the fight against Hitler. This collection of his wartime cartoons and contraptions includes the exploits of his ‘Sixth Column’ of patriotic civilians; illustrations for RF Patterson’s parody Mein Rant; and ingenious devices for foiling the enemy, such as the apparatus for injecting flu germs into Field-Marshal Goering and the Melted Butter Tank Stopper.

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Heath Robinson's Home Front
How to Make Do and Mend in Style
W Heath Robinson;Cecil Hunt
As hostilities got under way in 1939, Cecil Hunt and Heath Robinson collaborated on their own manual of practical instruction for those eager to do their bit on the home front. From Air Raid Protection on how to camouflage a house to growing your own food and personal protection (reinforced air-raid pyjamas) there’s advice on being prepared for the worst but, ‘As the devil said to Noah, It’s bound to clear up’.

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Saving Mona Lisa
The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures From the Nazis
Gerri Chanel
On 25 August 1939, nine days before France declared war on Germany, the staff of the Louvre began history’s greatest museum evacuation. The artworks went first to the châteaux of the Loire valley, then moved on to escape the advancing Nazis – Mona Lisa made six nail-biting journeys to new hide-outs. Here, Gerri Chanel tells the story of the curators’ battles to save the Louvre collections, from the first exodus to the homecoming in the summer of 1945.

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To Meet in Hell
Bergen-Belsen, the British Officer Who Liberated It, and the Jewish Girl He Saved
Bernice Lerner
Brigadier Glyn Hughes was among the first Allied soldiers to enter Bergen-Belsen. Rachel Gemuth, then just 15, was one of its inmates. This account by her daughter draws on her memories, Hughes’s diaries, other oral histories and documentary sources to record their respective journeys – following him from Normandy to a defeated Germany, and her from Hungary via Auschwitz to Belsen – before recounting the horror of the camp, and the justice administrated to its perpetrators.

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German Helmets
1916–1945
Jan M Meland

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Vanguard
The True Stories of the Reconnaissance and Intelligence Missions Behind D-Day
David Abrutat
In preparation for the Normandy invasion, the Allies left as little as possible to chance: in addition to the intense military planning and training a vast information-gathering campaign was undertaken. This study details how specialist units across the services built up an unprecedented body of intelligence, with sources ranging from aerial reconnaissance missions and decipherment of German signals to canoeist and swimmer teams sneaking onto beaches to take soil and sand samples.

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Biteback Espionage Classics - 3 Books
Ian Colvin;J M Langley;Nigel West
Biteback Espionage Classics reprint vintage accounts of real-life covert intelligence operations and underground networks behind enemy lines, from the First and Second World Wars to the Cold War. The three titles included in this set are: The Unknown Courier (Read more...) MI9 (Read more...) Double Cross in Cairo (Read more...)

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Secret War in Shanghai
Treachery, Subversion and Collaboration in the Second World War
Bernard Wasserstein
From the 1930s through the war, Shanghai was a centre of espionage and sleaze. This history reveals how the powers in the International Settlement spied on one another, compiling detailed records of individuals’ sexual peccadilloes and political entanglements. Wasserstein recounts stories of how bogus aristocrats, mobsters and arms dealers used illicitly gained secrets to gain political advantage and personal wealth.

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Anne Frank
The Collected Works
Anne Frank;Trans. Kirtsen Warner
Anne Frank’s diary is one of the most widely recognized personal testimonies of the Second World War. The full, definitive text is presented here along with her letters, personal reminiscences, daydreams, essays and a notebook of favourite quotations. Scholarly essays provide background on Anne’s life, her family’s history, and the story of how her diary came to be published. The book also includes numerous photographs of the Franks and the other inhabitants of the annexe in which they hid from the Nazis.

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Nine Wingcos and the Lancaster
The Second World War Experiences of a Bomber Command Flight Engineer
Peter Baxter
As a four-engine heavy bomber, the Avro Lancaster flew with a designated crew member, the flight engineer, to oversee the hydraulic, electrical and fuel systems. Peter Baxter completed hundreds of hours flying in this role, often at night, and also became the Engineer Leader for No. 153 Squadron. In this volume, which includes previously unpublished photos and detailed technical descriptions, he describes his RAF career, from the everyday camaraderie to operational details.

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Gepruft
The Remarkable Second World War Letters of Prisoner of War John Valentine and His Wife Ursula
Frances Zagni
Bomber Command observer and navigator John Valentine was shot down in his Avro Manchester in May 1942, becoming a POW in Germany. He wrote extensively to his wife, describing his capture and daily life. Although the letters were censored and stamped ‘Gepruft’ (‘checked’), both sides of their correspondence, from the Blitz to his subsequent hospitalisation, survived, and have been compiled and edited here by their daughter Frances.

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Lone Wolf
The Remarkable Story of Britain's Greatest Nightfighter Ace of the Blitz – Flight Lieutenant Richard Playne Stevens DSO, DFC and Bar
Andy Saunders;Terry Thompson
Before his early death, Richard Stevens was the RAF’s highest scoring nightfighter of the Second World War. Without radar, his reliance on pure skill, instinct and marksmanship earned him the nicknames 'Cat's Eyes' and 'Lone Wolf'. Based on years of research, contemporary documents and photographs, Andy Saunders tells the story of an extraordinary pilot.

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We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club
A Childhood on the Eve of War
Enid Elliott Linder
As the daughter of a butler and a lady's maid, Enid Elliott Linder spent her early years in some of England's grandest country houses. Her visceral memoir describes how her life changed after the family moved to a Marylebone tenement and an uneasy Britain headed towards war.

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The Royal Navy at Dunkirk
Commanding Officers' Reports of British Warships in Action During Operation Dynamo
Martin Mace
While the ‘little ships’ who helped to evacuate the BEF from Dunkirk are rightly celebrated, the Royal Navy’s destroyers, minesweepers and personnel ships were indispensable, transporting a large proportion of those rescued back to England. In the aftermath of Operation Dynamo, the Admiralty required ships’ Commanding Officers to submit the reports that are the basis of this book, detailing first-hand the chaos, improvization, skill and bravery that were required.

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Monte Cassino
A German View
Rudolf Böhmler
Rudolf Böhmler was a highly decorated German paratroop officer who participated in various fronts of the Second World War. Afterward, he wrote this description of the Italian campaign, focusing on the exhausted, heavily outnumbered German troops who tenaciously defended the town of Cassino and the Monte Cassino abbey.

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Heinkel He 111
The Latter Years – The Blitz and War in the East to the Fall of Germany
Chris Goss
The distinctive glazed cockpit of the He 111 is much in evidence in this selection of photographs of the bomber in action, from the British raids of 1941 to the Russian and Mediterranean theatres through to the end of the war. Among the images of crews, airfields, in-flight views and wrecks are some rare contemporary colour photographs of aircraft at a French airbase during the Blitz.

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Heinkel He 111
The Early Years – Fall of France, Battle of Britain and The Blitz
Chris Goss
Nominally developed as a cargo plane while restrictions on German military development were in place, the He 111 flew its first bombing missions during the Spanish Civil War. Extensively used in the Polish, Norwegian and French campaigns, it can be seen in action, on Luftwaffe airfields and as downed wrecks in this portfolio of images covering the early part of the war.

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SAS Shadow Raiders
The Ultra-Secret Mission that Changed the Course of WWII
Damien Lewis
Relying on newly declassified files and testimony from eyewitnesses and participants’ families, Damien Lewis recounts the radar war and the birth of British special operations, created by Churchill for specialised missions. After Operation Colossus, an unsuccessful attack on an Italian aqueduct, the book focuses on the more successful Operation Biting, an SOE mission to steal a radar dish from the French coast, along with the crucial technology powering it.

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Spitfire
The Biography
Jonathan Glancey
First flown in 1936, the Spitfire became a symbol of Britain’s defiance of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940. This book celebrates the grace and power of this great British aircraft, and the people who developed and flew it.

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Escape from the Japanese
The Amazing Story of a PoW's Journey from Hong Kong to Freedom
Ralph Burton Goodwin
Lieutenant Commander Ralph Burton Goodwin was a Royal Navy officer who was unable to escape from Hong Kong when it surrendered in 1941 as he was in hospital recovering from an injury. As he explains in this memoir, he was held in captivity nearby for two and a half years, before finally managing to escape from the camp, climbing mountain ridges and swimming a sea to reach safety.

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D-Day Through German Eyes
How the Wehrmacht Lost France
Jonathan Trigg
Hampered by tactical mistakes in preparation for the invasion and by severely stretched resources, the Germans nevertheless almost repelled the Allies in June 1944 and the Battle of Normandy remained in the balance for two months. This assessment of the D-Day landings and the subsequent struggle for the Falaise Pocket from the defenders' perspective, focuses on the performance of the German commanders on the ground and uses first-hand accounts to give an insight into conditions and contemporary attitudes.

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Dunkirk
The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Joshua Levine
Dunkirk in June 1940 saw the dramatic rescue of 300,000 Allied troops. Drawing on new interviews with survivors, this presents the true history of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians caught up by the German advance into France, and their last-minute evacuation by hundreds of small ships.

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The End is Always Near
Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
Dan Carlin
Dan Carlin is a broadcast journalist, best known for his Hardcore History podcasts. Here he explores the impact of major crises for humankind, including the fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death, and the two world wars, considering issues such as whether hard times make people more resilient, and why some civilizations, such as the Assyrian Empire, showed greater longevity than others.

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Chastise
The Dambusters Story 1943
Max Hastings
Max Hastings pays tribute to the heroism of the airmen and the inventiveness of Barnes Wallis in this new analysis of the Dambusters raid (Operation Chastise), but he also reveals failures in the mission that severely restricted its ultimate effectiveness. He describes the development of the bouncing bomb and the bombing raid itself as well as discussing the impact of the attack, both in the immediate aftermath and in the months following, as the Germans swiftly repaired the damage.

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War and Peace
FDR's Final Odyssey D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945
Nigel Hamilton
Concluding his trilogy assessing Roosevelt’s leadership in the Second World War, Hamilton focuses on the president’s role in the D-Day landings and his legacy. Using previously unpublished documents and interviews the book counters the narrative offered in Churchill’s memoirs. It reveals the extent of the president’s influence and argues that despite his failing health FDR played a pivotal role in creating the conditions necessary to build a peaceful, US-backed world order.

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MI9
Escape and Evasion
MRD Foot;JM Langley
Small, dedicated, under-staffed and under-resourced, MI9 supported resistance groups in Nazi-occupied Europe and helped Allied prisoners of war to escape. First published in 1979, this account tells how the organization smuggled money, clothes, maps and equipment past the Germans, and brought out coded letters containing vital intelligence about enemy plans.

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Double Cross in Cairo
The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East
Nigel West
Codenamed ‘Cheese’ by MI6, Roberto Levi, an Italian Jew by birth, was one of the most successful double agents of the Second World War. Drawing on recently declassified files, this book reveals how, while pretending to spy for the Germans, he fed them false information about Allied troop deployments and strategy, misleading the Afrika Korps and saving Malta from German occupation.

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Blood, Oil and the Axis
The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941
John Broich
In 1941, as the Allies struggled elsewhere, Axis forces were gaining Middle Eastern power through the Golden Square coup in Iraq, and the pro-Vichy Syrian regime. Broich tells how, with limited resources and manpower, a ramshackle coalition of militias, troops and individuals (including Roald Dahl and Freya Stark) improvised responses in battle zones including Fallujah, Baghdad and Damascus.

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Wehrmacht Combat Reports
The Russian Front, Eastern Front from Primary Sources
Ed. Bob Carruthers
Based on rare material from German and Russian original sources, this collection of field reports details the tactics and combat activities of the Wehrmacht in Russia. Compiled by historian Bob Carruthers, and supplemented with illustrations from US intelligence files, it focuses on neglected military features including armoured trains, the construction of field defences, street fighting techniques and improvised anti-tank measures.

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Voices in Flight
RAF Fighter Pilots in WW2
Martin W Bowman
Using original combat reports and first-person accounts, this book tells the stories of the young pilots who flew Spitfires and Hurricanes against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, and against the Italian air force flying out of Malta. Illustrated with vintage photographs, it includes the exploits of Douglas Bader, Peter Townsend, ‘Johnnie’ Johnson and ‘Sandy’ Lane, alongside those of their adversaries such as Oberleutnant Ulrich Steinhilper.

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The Stuka
Trumpets of Jericho, Luftwaffe in Combat 1939–45
Ed. Bob Carruthers
Despite its ubiquity in newsreels, there were only ever 700 Stukas at a given time, and although the craft had well known technical limitations it nonetheless became an iconic image of the Luftwaffe. This illustrated overview of the dive bomber draws on interviews with pilots and staff officers, and rare translations of articles from Der Adler, the Luftwaffe’s in-house magazine.

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The Jungle Survival Pocket Manual 1939–1945
Ed. Alan Jeffreys
In wartime South-East Asia, Allied soldiers occupied an alien environment where knowledge of tropical diseases, plant identification, and survival techniques were crucial. Assembled from their official manuals, with diagrams and drawings, and produced in a contemporary style, this compendium shows how they managed the challenges.

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Gold Run
The Rescue of Norway's Gold Bullion from the Nazis, April 1940
Robert Pearson
This account of a daring and hastily enacted operation in the face of imminent invasion describes how the King of Norway, his government and 50 tons of gold were smuggled out of the country by road, rail and fishing boat.

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Churchill: Warrior
How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours
Brian Lavery
As war leader, Churchill was heavily involved in both the overall strategy and the minutiae of the war effort. Lavery recounts his career as an army officer in India, Sudan and South Africa, and argues his direct experience of the different combat branches played a crucial role in his ability to assess their priorities in the most challenging moments of the conflict.

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They Fought Alone
The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
Charles Glass
Using declassified documents, family and court records, and interviews with colleagues, the author unravels the story of two Anglo-American brothers recruited by the SOE to work with the French Resistance. George Starr led many successful missions, while his brother John was captured, tortured and imprisoned. Post-war, both were acclaimed as heroes, but subsequent allegations of John’s collaboration and George’s torture and execution of Nazi prisoners damaged their reputations.

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Dam Busters
The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
James Holland
On the night of 16 May 1943, Operation Chastise – the Dambusters Raid, as it became known – was undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron armed with Barnes Wallis's bouncing bombs. Their objectives were the great Mohne and Eder dams in Germany's industrial heartland. Meticulously researched, Holland's fast-paced narrative gives a full account of both the engineering ingenuity and the courage of the bomber crews that came together in one of the most daring actions of the Second World War.

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The Traitors
A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit
Josh Ireland
Covering the years between the early 1930s and the end of the Second World War, Josh Ireland tells the stories of four men who threw in their lot with the Nazis, betrayed their country and suffered the consequences of their treachery: John Amery, Harold Cole, William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) and Eric Pleasants were traitors who ‘led untidy existences that were fat with accident and mess, but that were shaped by the epoch they inhabited’.

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Pearl Harbor
From Infamy to Greatness
Craig Nelson
Craig Nelson gives a vivid account of the Japanese surprise attack on the American naval and air forces on 7 December 1941. Blending archival research with the individual stories of sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats and leaders, he describes the situation in Japan and the US prior to the attack, the immediate result, and the unforeseen consequences that continue to linger.

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