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1939: Countdown To War

by Richard Overy
24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. And the West must try to stop him. If they don't, world war will result.
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Bomber Harris: His Life And Times

by Henry Probert
RRP £10-99 - our price £2-99 This is the definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of World War II.
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Carve Her Name With Pride

by Rubeigh James Minney
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris Iin 1921 to an English motor-car dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940.
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Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception, 1914-1945

by Nicholas Rankin
By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So, with Winston Churchill in charge, the British bluffed their way out of trouble, drawing on the trickery which had helped them win the First World War.
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Dambusters

by Max Arthur
On the night of 16–17 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron headed for Germany for what was to become one of the most famous raids of WWII.
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D-Day: The Battle For Normandy

by Antony Beevor
The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome.
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Evacuees Of The Second World War

by Mike Brown
During the last days of peace in 1939 nearly two million people, most of them children, were evacuated from British cities, towns and ports to the countryside, or across the Atlantic to the USA and Canada.
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Evader

by Derek Shuff
RRP £12-99 - our price £4-99 In 1941 air gunner Sergeant Jack Newton's Wellington is hit by flak on his first bombing raid over Germany.
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Hunt The Bismarck

by Angus Konstam
RRP £14-99 - our price £4-99 The breakout of the German battleship Bismarck into the North Atlantic in May 1941 is one of the most dramatic naval episodes of World War II.
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Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war diaries of Housewife, 49

by Patricia & Robert Malcolmson
Outwardly Nella’s life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen – a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing.
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