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A prisoner in Turkey
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John Still |
A first hand account of a British officer's experience as a prisoner of war in Turkey following his capture at Gallipoli in 1915. |
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Try to tell the story
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David Thomson |
From one of our most celebrated film critics and historians now comes a beautifully written memoir about his first eighteen years, growing up as an only child in south London in the midforties and la… |
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Claude's Book
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Bamber, L. Kelway Mrs. |
A book of letters written by Claude. Some while he was still on Earth, others after he "died".
From the book:
"Up to the time he was killed, Claude's mother was entirely skeptical as to the pos… |
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A Motorcycle Courier in the Great War
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W. H. L. Watson |
This book appears to be a reprint, under a different title, of *Adventures of a Despatch Rider*, first published 1915 |
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The Tartan Pimpernel
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Donald C. Caskie |
"I had caught up with a struggling mass of people when German and Italian aircraft streaked down from the sky. Machine guns spat indiscriminate death. Bombs thudded and exploded all along the road."T… |
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War letters of fallen Englishmen
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Laurence Housman |
"More than eight million young men perished during the First World War - a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the confli… |
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Alone
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Michael Korda |
"Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, gene… |
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Testament of experience
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Vera Brittain |
In *Testament of Youth*, one of the most famous and best loved autobiographies of the First World War, Very Brittain wrote both a heartbreaking record of those agonizing years and a loving memorial t… |
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A chill in the air
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Iris Origo |
"A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time. War in Italy in 1939 was by no means necessary or even beneficial to the country.… |
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The Straits impregnable
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Sydney De Loghe |
harrowing brutal account of slaughtr and the sacrifice made by the anzacs |
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The Bletchley Girls
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Tessa Dunlop |
The woman of Bletchley Park have a unique story to tell. Although critical to the success of the project to break the German and Japanese codes in the Second World War, their contribution has been co… |
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A guest of the Kaiser
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Arthur Gibbons |
This is the story of my grandfather's harrowing experiences during the First World War, leading to his eventual capture and mistreatment as a prisoner of war. His retelling of his story illustrates w… |
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Tank!
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Ken Tout |
This short book is a novelette-sized experiential treatment. It is raw, full of the period banter between the men of a tank battalion in Normandy. The characters crass humour is exquisitely raw.
M… |
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Mussolini
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Spike Milligan |
humour |
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My small share
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Ernest W. Pettifer |
Diary of Ernest W. Pettifer, a Quaker, who volunteered for the Friends Ambulance Unit in 1915. The text is primarily Pettifer's war diary from February 3, 1917 to February 7, 1919; a memoir of Pettif… |
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War in a Stringbag
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Charles Lamb |
Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It was an antiquated machine, but it could outmanoeuvre almost any other aircraft… |
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The reluctant major
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Atkins, David |
(192)p. ; 22 cm |
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A NURSE'S WAR
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Brenda McBryde |
Branda BcBryde's remarkable account of her experiences as a nurse in the Second World War.
Her uniquely moving story began on the eve of World War II when Branda McBryde enrolled as a trainee nurs… |
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You'll die In Singapore
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Charles McCormac |
With sixteen other POWs, author Charles McCormac broke out from his POW camp in Japanese-occupied Singapore and began a two-thousand-mile escape from Singapore, through the jungles of Indonesia to Au… |
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Evader
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T. D. G. Teare |
More thrilling than any fiction, this book charts the true story of RAF crewman Denys Teare's year in Occupied France, a year spent a half-step ahead of Gestapo troopers determined to hunt him down. |
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