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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist
£13.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781728242729 | ISBN 10: 172824272x
For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785763670 | ISBN 10: 1785763679
Heart-breaking – a tale of love and survival amidst the horrors of Auschwitz Human – the real story behind one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust – the blue numbers tattooed on prisoners' arms Inspirational – the very best of human ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908745750 | ISBN 10: 1908745754
A new edition marking the 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport. Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786072504 | ISBN 10: 1786072505
This is the gripping story of the five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II, featured in the award-winning Oscar-nominated film, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days. This 75th anniversary edition c ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099542278 | ISBN 10: 0099542277
The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between w ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444797664 | ISBN 10: 1444797662
Inspired by the lost voices of the Romany Holocaust this heartbreaking and tender novel will appeal to readers who loved Sophie's Choice, Schindler's Ark and The Book Thief. Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy - half Roma, half Yenish - runs, ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782393139 | ISBN 10: 1782393137
Can you ever forgive the unforgivable? In 1962, Emil Clément comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clément, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish f ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099554646 | ISBN 10: 009955464x
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780718158002 | ISBN 10: 0718158008
Elizabeth Buchan brings us a beautifully told story of courage, love and lies in wartime Europe in her heart-breaking new novel I Can't Begin to Tell You. When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror - her ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782391050 | ISBN 10: 1782391053
Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of busi ... more
View book details£14.50 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780226923116 | ISBN 10: 0226923118
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly — but if you’re the US Army ... more
View book details£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
View book details£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099531944 | ISBN 10: 0099531941
Summer of 1911. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests. Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence, wants more than the conventio ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781595581662 | ISBN 10: 1595581669
"I’ve lived about thirty-eight years after the war and about twenty years before. For me it’s B.W. and A.W. — before the war and after the war. I suspect there are a lot of people like me."(Robert Rasmus, interviewed by Studs Terkel) The most ... more
View book details£13.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780850366730 | ISBN 10: 0850366739
Firefighters in the Second World War were as crucial to victory as the army - and they ran the same sort of risks. Sixteen thousand were killed and 180,000 injured. The rest never forgot the dreadful things they saw: "Once you've pulled ... more
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