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Called Up, Sent Down

by Tom Hickman
At the outbreak of the Second World War the government short-sightedly allowed thousands of miners to enlist in the armed services. By 1943 the war effort was in danger of grinding to a halt because of a lack of coal.
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Camp Z

by Stephen McGinty
CAMP Z is a 'locked room mystery' where the 'locked room' is a man's head, and information which could help change the course of the Second World War lies inside a mind which no one can decide, with any degree of confidence, is either sane or insane.
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Churchill's Angels

by Bernard O'Connor
The story of the 60 female agents in Britain's Special Operations executive during the Second World War.
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Churchill's Bunker

by Richard Holmes
Drawing on a fascinating range of original material, including new first-hand accounts of the people who lived there, Holmes reveals how and why the bunker and its war machine developed; how the inhabitants' lives were transformed; and, how their wor
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Churchill's Unexpected Guests

by Sophie Jackson
The lives, within the camps and afterwards, of the Germans and Italians held in prison camps in Britain during the Second World War.
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Churchill's War Lab

by Taylor Browning
As a young boy he re-enacted historic battles with toy soldiers, as a soldier he saw action on three continents and as the Prime Minister only a direct edict from King George VI could keep him from joining the troops on D-Day.
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Citizen Sailors

by Glenn Prysor
Drawing on hundreds of contemporary diaries and letters, along with memoirs, oral history and official documents, this is the first definitive history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War.
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Cloak of Enemies

by Tom Keene
SOE was born from Churchill's vision to set 'Europe ablaze'. However, Tom Keene's book reveals for the first time how close it came to never existing at all.
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Cockleshell Heroes

by Quentin Rees
The definitive account of a mission thought to be a near impossible one; an attack seventy miles down the Gironde and on a series of blockade runners and other German ships located at Bordeaux.
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Code Name Mulberry

by Guy Hartcup
The story of the Mulberry harbours must rank among the most remarkable to emerge from the Second World War. In terms of engineering achievement, it is surely one of the greatest of all time.
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