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Second World War

Defeating Hitler by Paul Winter Paul Winter sets the top secret report Some Weaknesses in German Strategy and Organisation 1933-1945 in its historical setting, providing biographies of key figures referenced and a timeline of the crucial events. more Only £18.00 Was £20.00 You save £2.00

Demobbed by Alan Allport Drawing on personal letters and diaries, newspapers, novels and films Allan Allport explores the darker side of the homecoming experience after the Second World War. more £9.99

Dig On For Victory: Mr Middleton's All-year-round Gardening Guide from 1945 Charming reprint of C H Middleton's wartime gardening advice manual. A perfect present for the Alan Titchmarsh in your life. more Only £8.99 Was £9.99 You save £1.00

Domestic Soldier by Jennifer Purcell Using brand new research from the Mass-Observation Archive, Jennifer Purcell brings to life - in all its tragedy, pathos, joy and fear - the lives of six ordinary women made extraordinary by the demands of war. more Only £11.69 Was £12.99 You save £1.30

Double Agent Snow by James Hayward Based on recently de-classified MI5 files and previously unpublished sources, this is the story of a secret Battle of Britain, fought by Snow and his opposing spymasters, Thomas 'Tar' Robertson of MI5 and Nikolaus Ritter of the Abwehr, as well as the more £16.99

Engineers of Victory by Paul Kennedy The focus of this is on the problem-solvers - Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the 'funny tanks' which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker 'the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang'; Captain 'Johnny' Wal more Only £22.50 Was £25.00 You save £2.50

Enigma by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. more Only £8.09 Was £8.99 You save £0.90

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. more Only £5.39 Was £5.99 You save £0.60

Family In War by Maureen Waller Officila tie-in to the Imperial War Museum exhibition this uses first-hand accounts to reveal the experiences of wartime civilians. more Only £18.00 Was £20.00 You save £2.00

Fighting for Britain by David Killingray During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of the African experience of the war. more Only £12.99 Was £14.99 You save £2.00