SS Peiper - The Life and Death of SS Colonel Jochen Peiper by Leo Kessler
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Category: Second World War
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
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Category: Second World War
When do you think the Second World War ended? If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of the countries in Eastern Europe simply swapped t ...Show more
Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts
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Category: Second World War
"Masters and Commanders" describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong minded, and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war. Yet each knew that he had to win at least two of the others ove ...Show more
Love And War In The Apennines by Eric Newby
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Category: Second World War | Series: Picador Bks.
After the Italian Armistice in 1943, Eric Newby left the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year and evaded the advancing Germans by going to ground high in the mountains and forests south of the River Po. In strange isolation he was sheltered and protected for over three months by an informal ne ...Show more
Bastard Behind the Lines: The Extraordinary Story of Jock Mclaren's Escape from Sandakan and His Guerrilla War Against the Japanese by Tom Gilling
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Category: Second World War
He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters. 'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like ...Show more
The Duel in European History - Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy
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Category: Wars of the Ages
The romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring attraction in novels, plays, and operas; but it takes on a deeper significance when considered in its social, evolutionary setting. From medieval times, the privilege of duelling was regarded as a badge of rank, an assertion of preeminence by Eur ...Show more
The Mosquito Log by Alexander McKee
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Category: Aircraft & Air Forces
The Blitzkrieg Myth by John Mosier
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Category: Second World War
A reassessment of the military strategies of World War II presents arguments that such events as the Polish campaign of 1939 and the fall of France in 1940 were not blitzkrieg victories.
1915, the Death of Innocence by Lyn Macdonald
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Category: First World War
Gathers firsthand accounts of the experiences of ordinary soldiers in World War I, and shows how they adapted to modern warfare
White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson
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Category: First World War
The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet a million and half men died in North East Italy in a war that need never have happened, when Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire in May 1915. Led by General Luigi Cadorna, the most ruthless of all the Great War commanders, waves ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
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Category: First World War
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offer ...Show more