Second World War
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Forgotten Voices of Burma: The Second World War''s Forgotten Conflict
Julian ThompsonCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2 - the Burma Ca...
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Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War''s Most Daring Great Escape
Mark FeltonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'The story of a lesser known - but perhaps the greatest - escape of Second World War prisoners has been told in a new book.' The Scotsman 'This is ...
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Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
James M. ScottCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50By early 1945, the war against Japan was at its height and General Douglas MacArthur began to fulfil his vow of liberating the Philippines. He was ...
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The Real Great Escape
Guy WaltersCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the cam...
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The Battle of Midway
Craig L. SymondsCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn ...
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Who Was Who Volume IV (1941-1950)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99This volume of Who Was Who contains entries for people in Who's Who who died between 1941 and 1950. It has over 10,000 entries covering deaths duri...
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The Road to September 1939 - Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II
Jehuda ReinharzCurrent price €42.08Original price €49.50In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv, acting primarily out of self-i...
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The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana AlexievichCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories...
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Mary Churchill''s War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill''s Youngest Daughter
Emma SoamesCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain, extremely well edited, and occasio...
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Sisters of the Resistance: The Nuns Who Defied the Nazis
Dennis J. TurnerCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Throughout the occupied territories, Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the Nazis Based on letters and documents - not seen for seventy...
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The Role of Birds in World War Two: How Ornithology Helped to Win the War
Milton NicholasCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99A love of birds has always been an important part of the British way of life but in wartime birds came into their own, helping to define our nation...
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Battle Story: Singapore 1942
Dr Chris BrownCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50The fall of Singapore 1942 was one of the most decisive defeats of British and Commonwealth troops in the Second World War, driven primarily by All...
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The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion: Fighting on Both Fronts
Korte Samuel deCurrent price €23.32Original price €26.50The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion was activated on 25 July 1942 at Camp Carson, USA and, like many other tank destroyer battalions, would be sent ...
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Hannah''s War: A moving and heartwarming WWII land girl saga
Shirley MannCurrent price €11.05Original price €13.99A moving and dramatic World War II land girl saga by the author of Lily's War and Bobby's War, winner of the RNA romantic saga award. For readers ...
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The Silent Child: The gripping, heart-breaking and poignant historical novel set during WWII
J KellyCurrent price €21.73Original price €26.50SHE CAN'T HAVE A FUTURE UNTIL SHE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO HER FAMILY AFTER THE WAR.'Deeply moving and beautifully written' ANN CLEEVES'Heart-breakin...
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Oceans Apart: Stories of Overseas Evacuees in World War Two
Penny StarnsCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99From May 1940, the Children''s Overseas Reception Board began to move children to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand for their own saf...
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From Pole to Pole: the Life or Quintin Riley 1905-1980
Jonathon RileyCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Five: From the fall of Rome to the end of the war 1944-1945
Christopher ShoresCurrent price €56.31Original price €63.99During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power. This ...
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Churchill''s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler''s Defeat
Giles MiltonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' ANTHONY HOROWITZSIX GENTLEMEN, ONE GOAL - THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S WAR MACHINE.In the spring o...
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Endgame at Stalingrad: The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3: Book One: November 1942
Colonel David M. GlantzCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army. And now the offensive at Stalingrad, the ...
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Downfall 1945: The Fall of Hitlers Third Reich
Steven J. ZalogaCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A highly illustrated account of the many and complex operations in the final months of World War II in Europe, detailing the behind-the-scenes poli...
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The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual: 1941-1945
Martin RobsonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Part of the bestselling hardback pocket-book series, The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual collates authentic period sources, including pilot's notes ...
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Beyond Rosie: A Documentary History of Women in World War II
University of Arkansas PressCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99More so than any war in history, World War II was a womans war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire...
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