Second World War
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Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
HerschCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthause...
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With SOE in Greece: The Wartime Experiences of Captain Pat Evans
Evans TomCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Pat Evans parachuted into German-occupied Northern Greece in September 1943. His mission as a SOE operative was to support the Greek resistance mov...
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Battle of Manila: Nadir of Japanese Barbarism, 3 February - 3 March 1945
Miguel MirandaCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Nearly four years of brutal Japanese occupation in WW2 has dimmed Manila's lustre. The Philippine capital, surrounding an old Spanish fortress, was...
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Season in Hell: British Footballers Killed in the Second World War
McCrery NigelCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Professional football was officially suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. With their contracts terminated, players ...
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The Second World War Illustrated: The First Year: September 1939 - September 1940
Holroyd JackCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The first volume covers contributory factors leading up to the outbreak of hostilities. Hitler's amazing success in correcting the real and perceiv...
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City of London at War 1939-45
Stephen WynnCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The City of London was always going to be an obvious target for German bombers during the Second World War. What better way for Nazi Germany to spr...
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Red Road From Stalingrad: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
Mansur AbdulinCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk and on the banks of the Dnieper. T...
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Normandy''s Nightmare War: The French Experience of Nazi Occupation and Allied Bombing 1940-45
Boyd DouglasCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Famous for Calvados apple brandy and Camembert cheese, Normandy is a green and pleasant land now dotted with thousands of British-owned second home...
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Disaster at Stalingrad: An Alternate History
Peter TsourasCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on ...
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The Dutch Resistance Revealed: The Inside Story of Courage and Betrayal
Jos ScharrerCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99The Dutch resistance movement during the Nazi occupation was bedevilled by treachery, betrayal and poor organization and support from London. Despi...
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The Canal Line 1940: The Dunkirk Campaign
Jerry MurlandCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The network of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines, through St-Omer, B thune and La Bass e, follows the approximate boundary between Art...
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Cambridgeshire at War 1939-45
Glynis CooperCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Few could believe that within twenty years of the war to end all wars being won the world was once again at war. Veterans of the Great War feared g...
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Nuremberg''s Voice of Doom: The Autobiography of the Chief Interpreter at History''s Greatest Trials
Frank WolfeCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what ha...
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Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck
Evan McGilvrayCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck is a study not only of the individual but also of how the British Army, Indian Army and the Empire were transformed...
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Poland''s Struggle: Before, During and After the Second World War
Andrew RawsonCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Poland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about expanding it...
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Hitler''s Terror from the Sky: The Battle Against the Flying Bombs
Graham A. ThomasCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99Located in an Observer Corps post on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent, Mr E.E. Woodland and Mr A.M. Wraight were on...
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Knights of the Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe Aircrew Awarded the Knights Cross in 1940
Chris GossCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99The Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross), known simply as the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross), was the highest German m...
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Helping Stop Hitler''s Luftwaffe: The Memoirs of a Pilot Involved in the Development of Radar Interception, Vital in the Battle of Britain
AFCCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50The bomber will always get through was the oft-repeated mantra, first coined by Stanley Baldwin in 1932, which emphasised that the only realistic f...
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Major & Mrs Holt''s Definitive Battlefield Guide to the D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches: 75th Anniversary Edition with GPS References
HoltCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area, universally known as THE BIBLE, this is the 75th anniversary, completely revised, up-t...
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Tiger I: German Army Heavy Tank, Southern Front 1942-1945, North Africa, Sicily and Italy
Dennis OliverCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99When at Hitler's insistence the first Tiger I tanks went into action in Tunisia in December 1942 they rapidly gained a formidable fighting reputati...
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Merseyside at War 1939-45
Mike RoydenCurrent price €15.79Original price €19.99Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the por...
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Objective Falaise: 8 August 1944-16 August 1944
BernageCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99On the night of 8 August 1944, the First Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, directing their advance towards Falaise, with the intention of ...
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Survivors of Stalingrad: Eyewitness Accounts from the 6th Army, 1942-1943
Busch ReinholdCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99In November 1942, as the Battle of Stalingrad continued to rage, the Red Army launched a devastating counter-attack from outside the city. The Sovi...
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Voices of the Codebreakers: Personal accounts of the secret heroes of World War II
Michael PatersonCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of conce...
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