ISBN
0 297 79616 X
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The Second World
War was among the most destructive conflicts in human history:
more than forty million soldiers and civilians perished, many
in circumstances of terrible cruelty. During the 2,174 days
of war between the German attack on Poland in September 1939,
and the surrender of Japan in August 1945, by far the largest
number of those killed killed, whether in battle or behind
the lines, had no name or face except to those who knew or
loved them. In these pages is recounted the courage of soldiers,
sailors and airmen, the courage of partisans and resistance
fighters, and the courage of those who, starving, tormented
and without strength or weapons, were murdered far from the
battlefields isolated and alone.
Author: Martin
Gilbert
Publisher: Weidenfeld
and Nicolson
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ISBN
0 75380 147 7
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Major General Sir
Edward Louis Spears lived under two flags: those of France
and Great Britain. Brought up in France, he became an outstanding
liaison officer between the French and British forces during
the First World War. But it was his meeting with Winston Churchill
in 1915 that led to one of the closest friendships of his
life and he was sent by the Prime Minister in May 1940 as
his representative to France.
Author: Max Egremont
Publisher: Weidenfeld
and Nicolson
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ISBN
0 297 60731 6
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For most of the
Second World War General Sir Alan Brooke, later Field Marshal
Lord Alanbrooke, was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS)
and Winston Churchill's principal military adviser, and antagonist,
in the inner councils of war. He also led the British military
in the bargaining and brokering of the Grand Alliance with
Roosevelt and Stalin, in the great conferences at Casablanca,
Tehran, Washington and Yalta. These diaries provide a blow-by-blow
account of how the Second World War was waged and eventually
won, from the man at Churchill's elbow. They open a unique
window onto the inner workings of the Grand Alliance. Alanbrooke's
implacable arguments spared no one - politicians, Americans,
Russians, Chinese, even his own generals: Wavell, Auchinleck,
Montgomery, Slim, Alexander.
Author: Max Egremont
Publisher: Weidenfeld
and Nicolson
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ISBN
0 14 024423 9
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During July 1944,
four women agents, Andrée Borrel, Vera Leigh, Diana
Rowden and Sonya Olschanezky, met their deaths at Struthof-Natzweiler
concentration camp at the hands of the SS. Members of the
Special Operations Executive (SOE), they had been sent to
Nazi-occupied France in 1943. Was the arrest of these four
women the result of incompetence, or were they betrayed? Were
they sacrificed because M16 wanted to protect a double agent,
or to use them to disinform the enemy with deliberately misleading
information? These are some of the questions that are answered
in this fascinating book. (Rita Kramer, Penguin, ISBN 0 14
024423 9)
Author: Rita Kramer
Publisher: Penguin
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ISBN
0 00 710039 6
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In 1942 Leo Marks
left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road,
and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptographer of
genius. In his book Between Silk and Cyanide, Marks tells
how he revolutionized the code-making techniques of the Allies,
trained some of the most famous agents dropped into France,
and why he wrote haunting verse including the famous The Life
that I Have poem. He reveals the disastrous dimensions of
the code war between SOE and the Germans in Holland; how the
Germans were fooled into thinking a Secret Army was operating
in the Fatherland; and how and why he broke General de Gaulle's
secret code.
Author: Leo Marks
Publisher: Harper
Collins
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ISBN
1 85753 371 2
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The German Blitzkrieg
brought the rampaging German forces within 22 miles of the
British coast, across most of mainland Western Europe, into
Poland and to the North African desert. Its combination of
fast-moving armoured land units and fearsome air power carried
all before it and swept aside opposition with disdain. Blitzrieg
is avidly studied as a strategy that advanced land warfare
and as a means used by Hitler to forward his political and
national ambitions. Now this remarkable collection of vivid
images, drawn from many personal and unused national archives
presents the visual reference that endorses existing knowledge
and aids further study of the subject.
Author: Ian Baxter
Publisher: Brassey's
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