Second World War
-
A conspiracy of decency: the rescue of the Danish Jews
- £15.00
- The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extermination in a spontaneous act of humanity - one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the history of World War II. Drawing on many personal accounts, Emmy Werner tells the story of the…
- Add to basket
-
Brothers in Arms (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war. It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in the Second World War. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving…
- Add to basket
-
Dark Disguise
- £15.00
- A spy story set in an English aircraft factory during the Second World War written at the time and published by 1945. Despite initial suspicion falling on a Greek engineer in the factory, he is not the culprit and the search is on.
- Add to basket
-
Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
- £16.00
- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
- Add to basket
-
Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
- £22.00
- The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the…
- Add to basket
-
Manhattan ’45
- £25.00
- In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian…
- Add to basket
-
Marking Time (The Cazalet Chronicle vol 2)
- £22.00
- Volume two of the Cazalet Chronicles turns to the Cazalet children. Sixteen-year-old Louise, Edward and Villy's daughter, moves out into the world, discovering at drama school a casualness towards language and sex that would shock her parents - as much as their secret lives would shock her. And Polly, now…
- Add to basket
-
Nineteen Steps (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- Love blooms in the darkest daysÉ London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry air raid warden Billy, the boy next door whoÕs always been…
- Add to basket
-
Nonesuch (SIGNED, Special Edition)
- £80.00
- A spell-binding fantasy novel set in the Blitz, from the author of Golden Hill. 'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley 'His Dark Materials meets the Blitz.' Observer 'A literary magician.' Daily Telegraph 'My god can he write.' Richard Osman. It's the summer of…
- Add to basket
-
Season in Purgatory
- £35.00
- During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets--and loves--the fiery Moja Javich, a resourceful partisan. Their love gives Pelham the strength to endure the atrocities of war as he seeks to avoid capture.…
- Add to basket
-
Serenity House (SIGNED)
- £42.00
- Old Max, the giant of Serenity House, North London's "Premier Eventide Refuge", might have been left to die in peace. But his son-in-law Albert, an MP with an interest in the new War Crimes Bill, has other ideas. This book was nominated for the 1992 Booker Prize.
- Add to basket
-
The Hiding Place
- £8.00
- As the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of Christ. Despite the danger and threat of discovery, the ten Boom family courageously offered shelter to persecuted Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Then…
- Add to basket
-
The London Cage: Britain`s World War II Interrogation Centre
- £11.00
- The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of LondonÕs clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British Secret Service from 1940 to 1948. Behind the locked doors of three mansions in LondonÕs exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the…
- Add to basket
-
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From the bestselling author of Brothers in Arms comes the story of the most pivotal Allies campaign of World War II. With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They…
- Add to basket
-
The Tunnel
- £15.00
- This book traces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, interrogation and first two POW camps. It gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemes…
- Add to basket
-
A conspiracy of decency: the rescue of the Danish Jews
- £15.00
- The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extermination in a spontaneous act of humanity - one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the history of World War II. Drawing on many personal accounts, Emmy Werner tells the story of the…
- Add to basket
-
Brothers in Arms (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war. It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in the Second World War. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving…
- Add to basket
-
Dark Disguise
- £15.00
- A spy story set in an English aircraft factory during the Second World War written at the time and published by 1945. Despite initial suspicion falling on a Greek engineer in the factory, he is not the culprit and the search is on.
- Add to basket
-
Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
- £16.00
- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
- Add to basket
-
Hitlers Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
- £22.00
- The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the…
- Add to basket
-
Manhattan ’45
- £25.00
- In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian…
- Add to basket
-
Marking Time (The Cazalet Chronicle vol 2)
- £22.00
- Volume two of the Cazalet Chronicles turns to the Cazalet children. Sixteen-year-old Louise, Edward and Villy's daughter, moves out into the world, discovering at drama school a casualness towards language and sex that would shock her parents - as much as their secret lives would shock her. And Polly, now…
- Add to basket
-
Nineteen Steps (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- Love blooms in the darkest daysÉ London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry air raid warden Billy, the boy next door whoÕs always been…
- Add to basket
-
Nonesuch (SIGNED, Special Edition)
- £80.00
- A spell-binding fantasy novel set in the Blitz, from the author of Golden Hill. 'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley 'His Dark Materials meets the Blitz.' Observer 'A literary magician.' Daily Telegraph 'My god can he write.' Richard Osman. It's the summer of…
- Add to basket
-
Season in Purgatory
- £35.00
- During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets--and loves--the fiery Moja Javich, a resourceful partisan. Their love gives Pelham the strength to endure the atrocities of war as he seeks to avoid capture.…
- Add to basket
-
Serenity House (SIGNED)
- £42.00
- Old Max, the giant of Serenity House, North London's "Premier Eventide Refuge", might have been left to die in peace. But his son-in-law Albert, an MP with an interest in the new War Crimes Bill, has other ideas. This book was nominated for the 1992 Booker Prize.
- Add to basket
-
The Hiding Place
- £8.00
- As the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of Christ. Despite the danger and threat of discovery, the ten Boom family courageously offered shelter to persecuted Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Then…
- Add to basket
-
The London Cage: Britain`s World War II Interrogation Centre
- £11.00
- The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of LondonÕs clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British Secret Service from 1940 to 1948. Behind the locked doors of three mansions in LondonÕs exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the…
- Add to basket
-
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- From the bestselling author of Brothers in Arms comes the story of the most pivotal Allies campaign of World War II. With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They…
- Add to basket
-
The Tunnel
- £15.00
- This book traces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, interrogation and first two POW camps. It gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemes…
- Add to basket