War Memoirs

War Memoirs

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.
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CARDIFF AND THE VALLEYS AT WAR 1939-45
GARY DOBBS    Book Number: 89987
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Together with Newport and Swansea, Cardiff was one of the ports targeted by the Germans early in the war, though Bridgend's munitions factory further down the coast, the largest in Britain, was inc...
TWINS OF AUSCHWITZ
EVA MOZES KOR    Book Number: 89647
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The heart-breaking and inspiring memoir of an Auschwitz twin including an epilogue on Eva's incredible recovery and her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum and le...
HOSPITAL SKETCHES FROM THE CIVIL WAR
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT    Book Number: 89189
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The author of Little Women wrote personal letters which provide a raw and honest account of the reality of battlefield medicine during the American Civil War, a war which tore the country and famil...
LAST MAN STANDING
GABRIELLE MCDONALD-ROTHWELL    Book Number: 90807
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'I have always felt embarrassed that the medals were given to me - I was just the guy flying the damned aircraft. It was a joint effort and those men were the bravest of the brave.' Tall young pil...
PRIVATE HEINRICH HIMMLER: Letters of a Mass Murderer
EDITED BY KATRIN HIMMLER    Book Number: 90840
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'The Himmler Collection' which contained the letters of Marga Himmler to her husband has been a treasure trove for primary historical research for years and a further collection of private document...
DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
ANNE FRANK    Book Number: 90992
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Complete and unabridged, this is the extremely moving classic that remains a top favourite among readers of all ages, a rare and exceptional personal document that emerged from the Second World War...
HOUSE OF GLASS
HADLEY FREEMAN    Book Number: 91091
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A moving memoir following the Glass siblings throughout the course of the 20th century exploring assimilation, identity and home, the book is the story and secrets of a 20th century Jewish family. ...
BANDAGING THE BLITZ
PHYLL MACDONALD I. D. ROBERTS    Book Number: 91060
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Sub-titled 'The True Story of a Young Nurse in Wartime London'. In 1938, 18 year old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents, and sets off from her quiet seaside home...
DUNKIRK: The Epic Story
JOHN HARRIS    Book Number: 91063
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The epic story of history's most extraordinary evacuation, and one of the most famous episodes of the Second World War, this book is about the miracle on the beaches that saved a nation. In May 19...
D-DAY: The Soldiers' Story
GILES MILTON    Book Number: 91119
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The first American troops to wade ashore on Omaha Beach were jokingly known as the Suicide Wave. Almost none came back. An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured v...
FIGHTING FRANCE: From Dunkerque to Belfort
EDITH WHARTON    Book Number: 91148
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American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is best known for the Age of Innocence. Opening in August 1914 as the onset of the First World War is announced to sunlit Paris, Wharton's chronicle of ...
BOOKSHOP IN BERLIN
FRANCOISE FRENKEL    Book Number: 90782
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A French equivalent to the anonymous 'A Woman In Berlin' (which we stock code 91513), and a non-fiction counterpoint to Suite Française, the author who died in 1975 writes that it is 'the duty of ...
AIR BATTLE FOR BURMA: Allied Pilots' Fight for Supremacy
BRYN EVANS    Book Number: 91225
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Japanese superiority in the air was unchallenged following the Pearl Harbor attacks, with their crack plane the Dinah easily able to outperform Allied aircraft in terms of height and speed, but a n...
SHERLOCK'S SQUADRON
STEVE HOLMES    Book Number: 91318
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Sub-titled 'The Incredible True Stories of the Unsung RAF Heroes of World War Two', this is a compelling account of the war from the eyes of a group of young men from distant corners of the globe. ...
BOHEMIANS: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance
NORMAN OHLER    Book Number: 91328
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An incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led Germany's largest anti-Nazi resistance group, right in the darkening heart of Berlin. Summertime 1935 and on a lake near the city a ...
DEFYING HITLER: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
THOMAS GORDON & GREG LEWIS    Book Number: 91336
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Some anti-Nazi resistance movements have become immortalised, such as the White Rose students' group whose members were hunted down and brutally executed, but there were thousands, perhaps millions...
FEAR AND THE FREEDOM: How the Second World War Changed Us
KEITH LOWE    Book Number: 91345
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'A deft blend of historical research, moving interviews and challenging psychological insights, Lowe writes with elegance and perception.' - Jonathan Dimbleby. The fruit of five years labour, Lowe...
LOVE IN THE BLITZ
EILEEN ALEXANDER    Book Number: 91610
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Sub-titled 'The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War', Eileen Alexander graduated in 1939 with a brilliant First Class degree in English from Girton College, Cambridge. Her subsequen...
SOLDIERS: Great Stories of War and Peace
MAX HASTINGS    Book Number: 91638
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Here you will meet Jewish heroes of the Bible, Rome's Captain of the Gate, Queen Boudicca, Joan of Arc, Cromwell, Wellington, Napoleon's marshals, Ulysses S. Grant, George S. Patton, Sir John Moore...
BATTLE OF BRITAIN: The Pilots and Planes that Made History
SIMON PEARSON    Book Number: 91769
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Written on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the book brings to life the pilots and planes involved through the stories of 18 airmen, nine from each side, and 18 different aircraft. T...
BLITZ SPIRIT 1939-1945
COMPILED BY BECKY BROWN    Book Number: 91770
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The Mass-Observation Archive is a priceless time capsule of ordinary voices that might otherwise have been forgotten. Throughout WW2, hundreds of people kept diaries of their private daily lives a...
GOSHAWK SQUADRON
DEREK ROBINSON    Book Number: 91778
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Described as 'The missing link between Catch-22 and Black Adder', this book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is produced in a 50th anniversary edition with an introduction by James Holland....
HIT THE TARGET
BILL YENNE    Book Number: 91719
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By the famous author of 'Aces High' the aviation and military historian Bill Yenne comes the stirring true story of the Eighth Air Force in World War Two. Less than a month after the attack on Pea...
AN EXTRAORDINARY ITALIAN IMPRISONMENT
BRIAN LETT     Book Number: 91858
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The Brutal Truth of Campo 21, 1942-1943 is the sub-title. As Rommel began to achieve Axis victories in north Africa, thousands of Allied POWs were transferred to camps in mainland Italy. An estima...
BUDDIES
L. DOUGLAS KEENEY    Book Number: 91861
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Far from home and faced with the horrors of combat, hundreds of men and boys fighting in World War Two found comfort and companionship with the animals they adopted at training centres and in war z...
DEATH IN THE AIR
WESLEY D. ARCHER    Book Number: 91865
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Sub-titled 'The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot', when first published in 1933 the book was considered the ultimate record of aerial combat in the First World War. Its extraordin...
TO WAR WITH THE WALKERS
ANNABEL VENNING    Book Number: 91887
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Weaving the lives of brothers, sisters, wives, husbands and lovers seamlessly, this sweeping narrative casts a highly personal light on some of the most significant episodes of the Second World War...
INVISIBLE CROSS
ANDREW DAVIDSON     Book Number: 91899
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'For regular soldiers like Chaplin it is not a happy union, almost a demotion following the brigade's failure at Loos. He worries the move will sap morale and offer a threat to the established way ...
MAKE DO AND MEND: A Very Peculiar History
JACQUELINE MORLEY     Book Number: 91902
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With no added stockings, here is a fascinating little book on how we won the clothing battle in World War Two. Jacqueline Morley explores the story of clothing in a time of crisis explaining cloth...
SPITFIRE KIDS
ALASDAIR CROSS    Book Number: 92189
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Sub-titled 'The Generation Who Built, Supported and Flew Britain's Most Beloved Fighter', the book chronicles the extraordinary national effort to construct the fighter aircraft that gave the Allie...
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