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Discover the stories of the brave men and women who worked, trained and fought across the UK, from Bletchley Park in southern England all the way to Arisaig in northern Scotland, in an unbelievable effort to defeat the Nazis and win the Second World War .From the outset...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2021-09-30
Format(s) : ePub
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From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, pulled simultaneously...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2021-09-23
Format(s) : ePub
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'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Mary's affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries [...] are an informal record that...
Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2021-09-16
Format(s) : ePub
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A commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the WWII victory, Victory covers the war through "breaking news” stories and photographs from the Associated Press—the main US chronicler of the conflict.Victory commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of...
Editeur : Union Square & Co.
Parution : 2021-07-20
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
15,99€ (-13%)
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'An extraordinary book . . . vivid and heart-breaking'The Jewish ChronicleThrough the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2021-06-24
Format(s) : ePub
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Specializing in covert reconnaissance, counter-terrorism and hostage rescue, the SAS is one of the world's most famous, feared and respected elite fighting forces. This book tells the full, fascinating story of the regiment, from formation in the sand dunes of Africa...
Editeur : Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution : 2021-06-18
Format(s) : ePub
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An inspirational read celebrating the incredible young people who gave so much for this iconic British aircraft'. John Nichol, bestselling author of Spitfire: A Very British Love StoryDespite the many films and television programmes over the...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2021-05-13
Format(s) : ePub
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This intimate true account of Americans at war follows theepic drama of an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2021-05-11
Format(s) : ePub
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The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across the territory of that Balkan state after...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-02-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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From the jaws of defeat, incredible victories.AT ALL COSTS! transports you to the battlefront for over two centuries of astonishing military confrontations.From the Battle of Minden in 1795 to dramatic second world war stories and the Battle for Goose Green in the...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2020-12-10
Format(s) : ePub
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SEIZE AND HOLD vividly demonstrates how military objectives can be seized by clever tactics and ruthless action.From the First World War to Vietnam, this collection gives exciting, atmospheric descriptions of eleven twentieth-century battlefield triumphs. Portraying...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2020-12-10
Collection :
W&N Military
Format(s) : ePub
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In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the German nobility is...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-12-10
Format(s) : ePub
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In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the German nobility is...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-12-10
Format(s) : PDF
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During the Second World War, all contact between German soldiers and Polish women – considered an ‘inferior race’ – was officially banned. Sexual encounters frequently took place, however. Some were consensual, while others were characterised by brutal violence, and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-12-03
Format(s) : ePub
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“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for...
Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2020-11-10
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
10,99€ (-14%)
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This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-08-14
Format(s) : ePub
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This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-08-14
Format(s) : PDF
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From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US. However, once the US entered World War II, the entire apparatus of the US government was mobilized to “market” the war to Americans...
Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2020-06-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle—the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign—the last of its kind. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2020-03-03
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
11,99€ (-17%)
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The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2020-01-14
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
12,99€ (-8%)
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