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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
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Searching for Schindler
- £25.00
- The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in bringing it to the world's attention through his Booker…
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Shame and the Captives
- £25.00
- On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, a camp holds thousands of Japanese, Italian and Korean prisoners of war. The locals are unsure how to treat the 'enemy', though Alice Herman, whose young husband is himself a prisoner in Europe,…
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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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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
- £12.00
- In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The revolution…
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SS-GB, Nazi-Occupied Britain in 1941
- £12.00
- It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what…
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Sword of Honour 2: Officers and Gentlemen
- £40.00
- The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Having been sent home in disgrace (at the end of vol 1) Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show…
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Sword of Honour 3: Unconditional Surrender
- £75.00
- The third volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of…
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Testament of Youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925 (SIGNED)
- £275.00
- In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of…
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The Blast of War (1939-45) (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- The second volume of Macmillan's autobiography, covering the years of the Second World War, in which he participated as a senioar member of Churchill's War Cabinet. With multiple b/w photos and 4 maps (incl on endpapers)
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The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! A memoir of growing up in the Post-War North
- £25.00
- Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend,…
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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 Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
- Add to basket
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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
- Add to basket
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Schindler’s Ark
- £75.00
- Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller, made into the award-winning film Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became…
- Add to basket
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Searching for Schindler
- £25.00
- The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in bringing it to the world's attention through his Booker…
- Add to basket
-
Shame and the Captives
- £25.00
- On the edge of a small Australian town, far from the battlefields of the Second World War, a camp holds thousands of Japanese, Italian and Korean prisoners of war. The locals are unsure how to treat the 'enemy', though Alice Herman, whose young husband is himself a prisoner in Europe,…
- Add to basket
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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,…
- Add to basket
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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
- £12.00
- In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The revolution…
- Add to basket
-
SS-GB, Nazi-Occupied Britain in 1941
- £12.00
- It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what…
- Add to basket
-
Sword of Honour 2: Officers and Gentlemen
- £40.00
- The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Having been sent home in disgrace (at the end of vol 1) Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show…
- Add to basket
-
Sword of Honour 3: Unconditional Surrender
- £75.00
- The third volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour. Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of…
- Add to basket
-
Testament of Youth: an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925 (SIGNED)
- £275.00
- In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of…
- Add to basket
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The Blast of War (1939-45) (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- The second volume of Macmillan's autobiography, covering the years of the Second World War, in which he participated as a senioar member of Churchill's War Cabinet. With multiple b/w photos and 4 maps (incl on endpapers)
- Add to basket
-
The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! A memoir of growing up in the Post-War North
- £25.00
- Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend,…
- 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
-
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
- Add to basket