The Second World War by Charles Messenger
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Category: Second World War
Presents, in text and illustrations, an overview of the causes, events, and outcome of the Second World War.
Force 136Story of a WWII Resistance Fighter by Tan Chong Tee
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Category: Second World War
Force 136 is the autobiography of a man who swore himself to two missions: first, to defend his homeland, Singapore, during the Japanese Occupation in the early 1940s; second, to make known to everyone the patriotic ardour of the resistance fighters, including the dauntless Lim Bo Seng. By reading this ...Show more
World War II Day by Day by Antony Shaw
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Category: Second World War
A chronological history from the beginning of the Polish campaign in September 1939 to the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay on September 2 1945. Over 300 photographs.
The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell - Love, Betrayal, Big X and the Great Escape by Simon Pearson
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Category: Second World War
Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape. Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers - a treasure trove of letters, photographs and diaries - to the I ...Show more
The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad by Lena Mukhina
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Category: Second World War
In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the boy she liked - liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia's Nazi ally. And she was keeping a diary, in which she ...Show more
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose
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Category: Second World War
From the author of D-Day and Band of Brothers comes the story of the ordinary soldiers in Northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bittersweet days of the war. It opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the b ...Show more
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
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Category: Second World War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into run ...Show more
The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
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Category: Second World War
"The World at War" is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record sin ...Show more
Australia's Greatest Escape Stories from Two World Wars (PB) by Colin Burgess
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Category: Second World War
A collection of stories about the most dangerous aspect of the Australian prisoner of war experience - escape. Here is all the adventure, suspense and courage of ordinary Australians who defied their captors; men who tunnelled to freedom, crawled by night through stinking drains, rappelled down stone wa ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
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Category: Second World War
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more