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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45
- £20.00
- From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million livesan average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five…
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it…
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Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARD. Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the…
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Never Give In! Winston Churchill’s Finest Speeches (SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 'This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by…
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Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
- £25.00
- An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by…
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Rommel
- £35.00
- Rommel: The Desert Fox is a 1950 biography of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by Desmond Young. The book was the first biography of Rommel and enjoyed immense popularity, especially in Britain. The book led the Western Allies, particularly the British, to depict Rommel as the "good German" and "our…
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Speaking for England: Leo, Julian and John Amery
- £25.00
- SPEAKING FOR ENGLAND is the extraordinary true story of an English political tragedy: the bizarre tale of how the son of a member of Churchill's wartime Cabinet was hanged for treason - the last British citizen to suffer that fate. John Amery had been born into a life of privilege,…
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The Colditz Story
- £80.00
- Colditz was the last stop for prisoners of war in the Second World War. It was to this impregnable fortress that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in escaping from other camps, such as Stalag Luft III (of THE GREAT ESCAPE FAME). Once within the walls of Colditz,…
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The Eighth Army: El Alamein to the River Sangro
- £65.00
- Montgomery commanded the Eighth Army from 13th August 1942 until the 31st December 1943, and the 21st Army Group from 1st January 1944 until the German surrender on 5th May, 1945. These 2 accounts (concerned with the victorious campaigns of both Armies during the periods they were under his command)…
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The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45
- £85.00
- Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. In almost every major…
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944. The D-Day Story
- £65.00
- Compiled from many participants' accounts, this is still the finest one-volume account of D-Day. It is the basis of Ken Annakin's well-known feature film (1962) starring John Wayne, Kenneth More and a host of other stars. With 28 plates and colour endpaper maps.
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The Spy with 29 Names: The story of the Second World War’s most audacious double agent
- £10.00
- He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist…
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
- £15.00
- From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces. As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army…
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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45
- £20.00
- From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million livesan average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five…
- Add to basket
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it…
- Add to basket
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Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARD. Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the…
- Add to basket
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Never Give In! Winston Churchill’s Finest Speeches (SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Winston Churchill 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle'. President John F. Kennedy conferring Honorary US Citizenship, April 1963 'This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by…
- Add to basket
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Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust
- £25.00
- An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by…
- Add to basket
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Rommel
- £35.00
- Rommel: The Desert Fox is a 1950 biography of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by Desmond Young. The book was the first biography of Rommel and enjoyed immense popularity, especially in Britain. The book led the Western Allies, particularly the British, to depict Rommel as the "good German" and "our…
- Add to basket
-
Speaking for England: Leo, Julian and John Amery
- £25.00
- SPEAKING FOR ENGLAND is the extraordinary true story of an English political tragedy: the bizarre tale of how the son of a member of Churchill's wartime Cabinet was hanged for treason - the last British citizen to suffer that fate. John Amery had been born into a life of privilege,…
- Add to basket
-
The Colditz Story
- £80.00
- Colditz was the last stop for prisoners of war in the Second World War. It was to this impregnable fortress that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in escaping from other camps, such as Stalag Luft III (of THE GREAT ESCAPE FAME). Once within the walls of Colditz,…
- Add to basket
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The Eighth Army: El Alamein to the River Sangro
- £65.00
- Montgomery commanded the Eighth Army from 13th August 1942 until the 31st December 1943, and the 21st Army Group from 1st January 1944 until the German surrender on 5th May, 1945. These 2 accounts (concerned with the victorious campaigns of both Armies during the periods they were under his command)…
- Add to basket
-
The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45
- £85.00
- Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. In almost every major…
- Add to basket
-
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944. The D-Day Story
- £65.00
- Compiled from many participants' accounts, this is still the finest one-volume account of D-Day. It is the basis of Ken Annakin's well-known feature film (1962) starring John Wayne, Kenneth More and a host of other stars. With 28 plates and colour endpaper maps.
- Add to basket
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The Spy with 29 Names: The story of the Second World War’s most audacious double agent
- £10.00
- He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist…
- Add to basket
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
- £15.00
- From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces. As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army…
- Add to basket
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