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War Memoirs
War Memoirs
War and military, warfare worldwide, soldiers and regiments, battlefields and war zones. Historical overviews of world conflicts over the centuries through the eyes and words of those who were there.
| EDITED BY ROBERT HAMILTON Book Number: 79364 |
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Powerfully evocative, viscerally raw and frequently haunting, these are the thoughts of men who knew that every moment could be their last, that the whistling of an approaching German shell could s...
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| LARA FEIGEL Book Number: 80489 |
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A powerful wartime chronicle told through the eyes of five prominent writers - Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Rose Macaulay, Hilde Spiel and Henry Yorke (writing as Henry Green). Capturing the st...
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| KEVIN TELFER Book Number: 81065 |
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On 8th May 1945 Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister, announced to waiting crowds that the Allies had accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and that the War in Europe was over. For...
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| ANDREW SANGSTER Book Number: 81530 |
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Bruno was a fanatical of Hitler Youth member, taught to hate Jews, although he couldn't understand how the hatred needed to encompass such Jews as the elderly Frau Goldblatt who ran the grocery sho...
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| SETH MEYEROWITZ Book Number: 82307 |
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The suspenseful story of a truly remarkable American, shot down over enemy occupied territory in World War Two, who amazingly managed to stay a step ahead of the Nazis for over six months and get b...
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| HELEN HUMPHREYS Book Number: 82351 |
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The award-winning Canadian writer has created four unforgettable characters whose lives intersect in a novel rich with nature imagery with colours of flowers and smells of earth contrasting to the ...
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| GARRY O'CONNOR Book Number: 82485 |
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During the Second World War, the 1st Household Cavalry were in action in Italy, where the Italian Campaign was well underway. This account, based upon diaries and interviews with survivors explains...
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| MICHAEL PERRIS Book Number: 82493 |
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National Service finally came to an end in 1960, although it was 1963 before the last conscript left the army. This account of Navy life from the late 1950s gives a vivid personal impression of Nat...
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| DAVID STRANACK Book Number: 82517 |
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When AROPS (Association of Old Pupils' Societies) decided to conduct a survey to discover what happened to its members' Alma Maters during the war years, the response was such that they received a ...
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| PENNY LEGG Book Number: 82523 |
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Talking to anyone who has served in the Armed Forces will bring forth a series of anecdotes and recollections, some thoughtful, others hilarious. This collection of reminiscences from the 1950s onw...
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| EDITED BY NIGEL FOUNTAIN Book Number: 82528 |
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During the First World War, newspapers were eagerly perused by millions, all anxious to know what was happening, especially to those fighting at the front. This collection of extracts from various ...
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| LUCINDA GOSLING Book Number: 82740 |
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Popular magazines such as The Tatler, The Sketch and The Queen recorded the national preoccupations following a declaration of war in August 1914 which was to change Britain and British society irr...
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| AGNES MCEWAN & C. THOMSON Book Number: 82898 |
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The story of the 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment has been consistently misrepresented, and the authors are aiming to set the record straight. Agnes McEwan?s father was a gunner with the...
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| LIAM DALE Book Number: 82788 |
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Bookending the companion DVD War Diaries 1942 code 82789, here recorded for posterity by people who lived through this incredible time are war diaries from the very beginning of the conflict of WWI...
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| LIAM DALE Book Number: 82789 |
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Many of us remember relatives and friends who were involved in the Second World War, but as the years go by, passing on the lessons learnt to each new generation becomes ever more important. This ...
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| TOM NEIL Book Number: 82728 |
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In the build-up to D-Day in 1944, Battle of Britain ace Tom Neil was assigned by the RAF to be liaison officer with an American fighter squadron, the 100th Fighter Wing of the US 9th Air Force, whi...
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| DAVID HOWARTH Book Number: 82732 |
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Crippled by frostbite, snow-blind and hunted by the Nazis, Jan Baalstrud managed to find a tiny Arctic village. There, delirious and near death, he found villagers willing to risk their own lives ...
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| CAPTAIN W. E. JOHNS Book Number: 82751 |
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A sequel to Worrals on the WAAF code 82753, Flying Officer Joan Worralson is finding life in service dull until a chance discovery puts her on the trail of a double agent. The hunt takes her and h...
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| KARYN BURNHAM Book Number: 83016 |
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The Great War touched every single town and city in Britain and barely a community escaped unscathed. Despite a long and tumultuous history, the seemingly brief period between 1914 and 1918 left a...
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| JOHN GREHAN & MARTIN MACE Book Number: 83256 |
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The Spitfires and Hurricanes of Fighter Command were not the only defenders of Britain's skies. Throughout WWII, considerable resources were employed in anti-aircraft defences. These often achiev...
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| STUART HADAWAY Book Number: 83262 |
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A Pen & Sword Aviation book sub-titled 'Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952.' During WWII, it became apparent that the system for tracing the whereabouts of the ...
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| DENNIS NEWTON Book Number: 83265 |
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Pat Hughes is today perhaps the greatest unsung hero of the Battle of Britain. Ranked sixth in the 'Ace of Aces' of the aerial campaign of summer 1940, he shot down at least 14 enemy aircraft, mos...
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| MICHAEL NAPIER Book Number: 83268 |
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The author joined the RAF in 1978 and served with 14 Squadron as a Tornado pilot and is now an airline captain. Formed in 1915 and still operational today, 14 Squadron is one of the RAF's longest ...
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| MARTIN GILBERT Book Number: 83275 |
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Sub-titled 'The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors' this now classic modern history book was first published in 1996 and here reprinted in facsimile paperback, scanned from the origina...
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| LEE TRIMBLE & JEREMY DRONFIELD Book Number: 83212 |
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An untold story from the last days of WWII, the book is partly a story of one officer's guile and bravery and an appalling tale of the full horror of the last year on the Eastern Front. Our Ally h...
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| LARA FEIGEL Book Number: 83226 |
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The task of reconstructing Germany after World War II demanded far more than food parcels and building programmes. The goal was to demilitarise the country that had supported Nazism, and planeloads...
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| GORDON THOMAS & GREG LEWIS Book Number: 83529 |
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Sub-titled 'Daring Missions of World War Two by Women of the OSS and SOE', sent by the USA and Britain, these brave women wove a web of resistance groups across the continent. So effective did the...
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| MIRANDA SEYMOUR Book Number: 83483 |
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Herbert Sulzbach, son of a wealthy banker from Frankfurt, began the war as a German patriot aged 20. 'We certainly did not want this war!' he wrote in October 1914. Marching home four years later ...
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| MARIA PAEZ VICTOR Book Number: 83661 |
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When Richard Vowell bought his commission in the First Venezuelan Lancers in 1817, he was joining the legendary revolutionary army of Simon Bolivar which would gain independence for Venezuela, Colo...
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| CLARE HORNE & KATHRYN PHELPS Book Number: 83694 |
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Here we have a most unusual anthology of WWI letters. In the course of the Great War the men of the Great Western Railway Audit Office who were serving in the armed forces kept up regular correspon...
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