Second World War
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Through Blood and Sweat: A Remembrance Trek Across Sicily''s World War II Battlegrounds
Mark ZuehlkeCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Current price €28.79Original price €31.99Save 10% -
A Life in Code: Pioneer Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman
G. Stuart SmithCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Protesters called it an act of war when the U.S. Coast Guard sank a Canadian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929. It took a cool-headed...
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War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944
Tony ReddingCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50War in the Wilderness is the most comprehensive account ever published of the human aspects of the Chindit war in Burma. The word Chindit will alwa...
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The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
Ben MontgomeryCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina woman who was one of the top spies for the Allies during World War II, stas...
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Surviving Katyn: Stalin''s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
Jane RogoyskaCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE A gripping reconstruction utterly compelling reading. Adam Zamoyski...
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The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II
Robert CressmanCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Ten years after the close of World War II, the U.S. Navy published achronology of its operations in the war. Long out of print, the work focused on...
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US Landing Craft of World War II, Vol. 1: The LCP(L), LCP(R), LCV, LCVP, LCM and LCI
David DoyleCurrent price €21.11Original price €23.99No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as the man who won the war for us, referring to the landing craft he perfected. Tho...
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A Train Near Magdeburg: A Teacher''s Journey into the Holocaust, and the reuniting of the survivors and liberators, 70 years on
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First Light: The Centenary Collection
Geoffrey WellumCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing...
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Norwich in the Second World War
Neil R StoreyCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Norwich in the Second World War is the story of the city and its people, both civilian and military, from the construction of the first air raid sh...
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Tobruk to Trieste: Life of a Bofors Gunner 1941 - 45
Herbert W. GoodwinCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made
Dilip Sarkar MBECurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Released in 1969, the film _Battle of Britain_ went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected Brit...
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Air Combat: Dogfights of World War II
Aleksander MedvedCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This book brings together the best and most iconic fighters of World War II, pitted against one another in desperate aerial combat. The battle for...
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Storming the Eagle''s Nest: Hitler''s War in the Alps
Jim RingCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50In a mountain resort in the Alps, Hitler built his 'Eagle's Nest' from which he conceived and directed the war. Skiing resorts were turned into tra...
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The Real Dad''s Army: The Story of the Home Guard
Norman LongmateCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The enduring popularity of the BBC TV series Dads Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed the Bri...
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Disputed Decisions of World War II: Decision Science and Game Theory Perspectives
Mark ThompsonCurrent price €60.29Original price €66.99A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical...
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The CASSIA Spy Ring in World War II Austria: A History of the OSS''s Maier-Messner Group
C. TurnerCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics. Many were shipped to concentration camps; those deemed most dangerous...
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Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero
Aileen OrrCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99This is the inspiring and charming true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants - a 500-pound cigarettesmoking, beer-drinkin...
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The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative History
Mark EdeleCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed benefits? How were they r...
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Axis Diplomats in American Custody: The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941-1945
Landon Alfriend DunnCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats, along with their staffs and families, were relocated to two lavish but isolated reso...
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Romania''s Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust
Grant T. HarwardCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99Romania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Gran...
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Ruth''s Record: The Diary of an American in Japanese-Occupied Shanghai 1941-45
Ruth Hill BarrCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99The year 1941 was a turning point for the world, but long-time Shanghai resident Ruth Hill Barr had no way of knowing that when she started her fiv...
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Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II
Tessa DunlopCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Army Girls is the intimate story of the final few women who served in World War II and are still alive to tell their tale. They were female soldier...
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SS-Schijager Batallion ''''Norge'''': Norwegian Ski Infantry on the East Front 1941-44
Arne Hakon TomassenCurrent price €26.55Original price €31.99Norway was one of the nations producing the highest number of volunteers for the German war machine during WWII. Most of them ended up in the mecha...
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