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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World - by Jonathan Freedland

£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529369069 | ISBN 10: 1529369061

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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor - by Eddie Jaku

£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529066364 | ISBN 10: 1529066360

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom. ‘Eddie looked ... more
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Gone to Ground: One Woman's Extraordinary Account of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany - by Marie Jalowicz-Simon

£14.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781254141 | ISBN 10: 1781254141

Thrilling and terrifying by turns, this is the gripping account of a young Jewish woman who survived the Second World War by going to ground in Berlin. Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordina ... more
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These Wonderful Rumours! A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 - by May Smith

£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844088119 | ISBN 10: 1844088111

'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two. May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But ... more
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Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and the Unknowing - by Craig Collie

£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846274428 | ISBN 10: 1846274427

The events of a few days in August 1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half of them instantly. Craig Collie is the first person to interview elderly survivors and desce ... more
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To End All Wars: A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War - by Adam Hochschild

£16.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780330447447 | ISBN 10: 0330447440

In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister wh ... more
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Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City - by Jonny Steinberg

£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099524229 | ISBN 10: 0099524228

On Park Hill Avenue in New York City, almost everyone is Liberian. Many fled here, survivors of a brutal civil war that claimed the lives of one in fourteen Liberians. But even an ocean away, the baggage of the past is difficult to leave behind. Stei ... more
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Women in the First World War - by Neil R. Storey and Molly Housego

£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780747807520 | ISBN 10: 0747807523

As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives, sisters, and sweethearts who were determined to contribute to the British cause. Women enrolled as nurses to treat wounded soldiers, and over 700,000 became workers in fact ... more
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Bluebird: A Memoir - by Vesna Maric

£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847081193 | ISBN 10: 1847081193

Vesna Maric was a typical sixteen year old when the Bosnian war started. As school broke up, shelling began. Snipers appeared in the cities and suddenly a trip to a cafe or an illicit cigarette became dangerous, impossible things. Maric and her siste ... more
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Bite of the Mango - by Mariatu Kamara and Susan McClelland

£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408805190 | ISBN 10: 1408805197

An astonishing story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative.� As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumours of rebel attacks were no m ... more
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Journal - by Helene Berr

£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906694197 | ISBN 10: 1906694192

From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she pl ... more
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The Angel of Grozny: Life Inside Chechnya - by Asne Seierstad, translated by Nadia Christensen

£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844083961 | ISBN 10: 1844083969

In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict. Asne Seierstad reported regularly on the war, describing its effects on those trying to live their ... more
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Don't Shoot the Clowns: Taking a circus to the children of Iraq - by Jo Wilding

£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456483 | ISBN 10: 1904456480

'Don't shoot the clowns!' As a circus performer in a war zone these are the fist words you need to know in English and Arabic, especially if you are trying to help wounded civilians in a city under siege.�Don't Shoot the Clowns is Jo Wilding's accoun ... more
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