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Catastrophe
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Max Hastings |
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles -- the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg -- that marked… |
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The Bitter Sea
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S. J. Ball |
"A gripping history of the Mediterranean campaigns from the first rumblings of conflict through the Second World War and into the uneasy peace of the late 1940s. In the 1930s the British commanded th… |
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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Paul Ham |
In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombin… |
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The monuments men
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Robert M. Edsel |
"In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others--called the Monuments Men--risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destructio… |
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The long shadow
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Reynolds, David |
One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen mere… |
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No better friend
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Robert Weintraub |
"Tells the remarkable story of Royal Air Force technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met in an internment camp during WWII. Judy was a fiercely loyal animal who sensed danger an… |
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Raiders
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Ross Kemp |
Operation Judgement: one of the most spectacular efforts of World War Two, where obsolete British biplanes attacked the Italian fleet in Taranto. Operation Archery: the first true combined operation … |
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Birds in a cage
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Derek Niemann |
This is the inspiring story of how a passion for birds enabled four young men to escape the horror of internment in a German PoW camp - and brought about an extraordinary moment of cooperation and mu… |
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But You Did Not Come Back
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Sandra Smith,Marceline Loridan-Ivens |
100 pages ; 20 cm |
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Anne Frank
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Francine Prose |
In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years… |
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24hr trench
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Andrew Robertshaw |
During the Great War millions of men lived in the trenches of the Western Frotn. It is difficult for us to understand how they coped in such a confined space with the constant terror of enemy attack.… |
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Far from the East End
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Iris Jones Simantel |
From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside, evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far "From the East End". Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, … |
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