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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.
| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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. ...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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. ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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....
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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 ...
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| 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...
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| 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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| DAVID NASAW Book Number: 92021 |
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Following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, the ruined nation was home to millions of homeless concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave labourers, political prisoners and Nazi collaborators in...
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| GAVIN MORTIMER Book Number: 92283 |
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Sub-titled 'What the World War Two Generation can teach us about how we live our lives', the late Her Majesty the Queen once said: 'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone w...
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| BRYN EVANS Book Number: 92152 |
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A high percentage of air crew in World War II failed to return home, but among those who did there are innumerable stories of miraculous escapes against the odds - which were that an airman would b...
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| GEOFFREY HOWSE Book Number: 92154 |
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Royalty was popular in Barnsley in the early 20th century, and in 1912 King George V and Queen Mary paid a highly successful visit, attracting masses of cheering crowds to the town centre. Featured...
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| STEPHEN WYNN Book Number: 92157 |
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The day after war broke out in 1914 a battalion of the Durham Light Infantry set up camp in the city centre, accompanied by the Royal Field Artillery trundling their heavy weaponry. A recruiting dr...
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