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Hundreds of thousands of people from all continents visit Dachau Memorial Site each year. Any visitor to the Memorial Site will find that the Memorial Site bookshop stocks two publications worthy of……続きを見る

In 1987, Paul Morris went to Angola as a reluctant conscript soldier, where he experienced the fear and filth of war. Twenty-five years later, in 2012, Paul returned to Angola, and embarked on a 150……続きを見る

Were the two World Wars historical accidents or were they the undertakings of powerful yet undocumented cabals? Was the Soviet Union the ultimate successor to European colonial empires? What role d……続きを見る

A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world – the Girl Guides – and how they helped win the war. The Girl Guides is one of the world's most extraordinary mo……続きを見る

A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world from its beginnings to the modern-day, from the highly acclaimed author of ‘Sacred Causes’ and ‘Earthly Powers’. Basing his study on a wide range……続きを見る

A powerful novel set at the end of World War II about one woman and her family's struggle for survival. The thrust of this epic novel occurs in the spring of 1945, during an event known in Germany a……続きを見る

The extraordinary stories of ten fighter pilots, told in their very own words during the Second World War. First published by Collins in 1942, this utterly compelling collection of first-hand accoun……続きを見る

Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to grow up amidst the daily struggles and horr……続きを見る

Milwaukeeans greeted the advent of World War II with the same determination as other Americans. Everyone felt the effect of the war, whether through concern for loved ones in danger, longer work hou……続きを見る

This is the compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives by US National Boo……続きを見る

Hurricanes and Handbags is part of series of short stories commemorating the bravery and courage of women serving in the armed forces during times of conflict. It tells the remarkable story of a gro……続きを見る

Prawdopodobnie jest to najlepsza książka o nurkowaniu, jaką kiedykolwiek napisano; obowiązkowa pozycja na każdej marynistycznej półce. Historia dwóch przyjaciół, których determinacja i odwaga pozwol……続きを見る

The Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, g……続きを見る

'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard Holmes Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old,……続きを見る

The much-anticipated sequel to The German Aces Speak gives voice to four more of WWII’s most noteworthy German pilots. When The German Aces Speak published in 2011, Air & Space/Smithsonian magaz……続きを見る

The rationing period during World War II was a difficult time, and yet it is remembered nostalgically as a time of unity and great sacrifice. Make Do and Mend focuses on clothes rationing, which was……続きを見る

'It made Changi seem like heaven.' This is the little known story of Singapore's Outram Road Gaol and the POWs who endured it. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than……続きを見る

First Published in 1987. New information obtained from the declassification of Ultra intercepts and other Second World War documents as well as from recent scholarly research has credited Allied dec……続きを見る

‘I hadn’t been in Hackney for 24 hours but I knew that the way I saw life and people had changed forever. There was such goodness here but there was a sadness I had never imagined before, and it was……続きを見る

December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute D……続きを見る

The Wartime Letters of Molly Rich London 1940-1944 Throughout the Second World War, Molly Rich, a vicar's wife in London, wrote hundreds of letters to a young Austrian refugee named Otto. The boy ha……続きを見る

With the same erudition, discernment, and crisp prose that made his A History of Warfare an international bestseller, Keegan surveys the literature of World War II, identifying the works he finds mo……続きを見る

World War II was the greatest conflict in human history, involving over 100 million people serving in the forces of the Axis and the Allies and resulting in 50 to 70 million deaths. This book covers……続きを見る

The Nazi regime was a regime of unparalleled destructiveness. Nazism presents both key texts from some of the most innovative and challenging of more recent studies and extracts from the older histo……続きを見る

The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the Holocaust With THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describe……続きを見る

'I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst... I completely believe in the potential nobility of the human spirit.' During some of the……続きを見る

Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatch……続きを見る

They came from one street in Silvis, Illinois, but death found them in many places . . . . . .in a distant jungle, a frozen forest, and trapped in the flaming wreckage of a bomber blown from the sky……続きを見る

A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts. ‘Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’: In this centenary year, Hastings’ thrilling ……続きを見る

Drawing on long-classified documents, Target: Italy is the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. It is the first full accou……続きを見る