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The Battle of Britain
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James Holland |
British historian Holland (Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944–45, 2007, etc.) provides a thorough reconsideration of the Battle of Britain that is both staggeringly technical and dramatically engagi… |
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Fire and Fury
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Randall Hansen |
During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pil… |
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The man on the mantelpiece
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Janet Denny |
On the first day of World War Two, Jim begins a diary. An ardent eighteen-year-old pacifist, nothing will persuade him to fight. Seventy years later, his daughter discovers his writing. After a month… |
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Target Tirpitz
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Patrick Bishop |
Tirpitz was the pride of Hitler's navy, the most powerful battleship in Europe. To Churchill she was "the Beast", a menace to Britain's supply lines. An "Iron Castle" that could withstand any bomb or… |
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Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
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Roald Dahl |
Over to You brings together 10 of Roald Dahl's earliest stories, many of them set during the Second World War and drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot. It includes his first paid piece o… |
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