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Odette
Odette : World War Two's Darling Spy
Odette Brailly entered the nation's consciousness in the 1950s when her remarkable - and romantic - exploits as a Special Operations Executive agent first came to light. She was the ...
One Hundred Events That Shaped World War II
One Hundred Events That Shaped World War II
The bloodiest conflict in human history was not decided by the actions of an enlightened few. Instead, it played out as countless acts of heroism, on battlefields across the p...
One Of The Few
One Of The Few
New and updated edition: the original autobiography is enhanced by the addition of family photos and extracts from unpublished letters and writings by the author, and a moving and informative new introduc...
Operation Basalt
Operation Basalt : The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order
German soldiers assigned to guard the tiny Channel Island of Sark described it as a 'little Paradise' and, because it was never bombed by the RAF, ...
Operation Diver
Operation Diver : Guns, V1 Flying Bombs and Landscapes of Defence, 1944-45
Operation Diver is the story of a battle: its action, people, landscapes, and remains. The battle was Anti-Aircraft Command's attempt to defeat ...
Operation Fortitude : The Greatest Hoax of the Second World War
Operation Fortitude : The Greatest Hoax of the Second World War
Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted. ...
Operation Market Garden
Operation Market Garden: September 1944
The battle of Normandy ended as the Allied armies crossed the Seine at the end of August 1944, a month after Operation Cobra had broken the stalemate. The Allies harried the retre...
Operation Sealion
Operation Sealion : Hitler's Invasion Plan for Britain
During the Summer of 1940, Hitler's Germany appeared unstoppable. The Nazis were masters of mainland Europe, in alliance with Stalin's Russia and only the English C...
Our Uninvited Guests
Our Univited Guests : The Secret Lives of Britains Country Houses 1939-45
'It's hard to believe that there are still untold stories about Britain and World War II, but Julie Summers has unearthed a fascinating one that ...
Outbreak 1939: The world goes to war
Outbreak 1939. The World Goes To War
11:15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months: Britain is at war wit...
Paras
Paras : Voices of the British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
Impressed by the performance of the German paratroopers in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in 1941, Winston Churchill ordered the c...
Past & Present: 6th Airborne Div Normandy 1944
Past & Present : 6th Airborne : Normandy 1944
Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the night of 5 June, when six Halifax heavy bombers took off from Tarrant Rushton towing six Horsas carrying a coup-de-main force consistin...
Prisoner of War in Germany
Prisoner of War in Germany
During World War II, German prison camps swelled with Allied Prisoners of War, captured during fierce conflicts, from the Battle of France in 1940 to the bomber offensives over Germany from 19...
Prof
Prof: Alan Turing Decoded
Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero gr...
RAF Bomber Crewman
RAF Bomber Crewman
RAF Bomber Command and its crews are probably unique in the history of warfare. During the Second World War each RAF bomber crew member was a volunteer, and in the case of the Command’s elite Pathfi...
RAF Tempsford: Churchill's Most Secret Airfield
Churchill's Most Secret Airfield : RAF Tempsford
Designed by illusionist Jasper Maskelyne, RAF Tempsford was constructed to give overflying enemy aircraft the impression it was disused. Nothing could be further from the...
Railroad Of Death
Railroad of Death : The Original Classic Account of the "River Kwai" Railway
A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma Railway. John Coast was a young officer in...
Railway Man
The Railway Man
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form norma...
Railways In Wartime
Railways In Wartime
The strategic importance of railways was recognized almost from the beginning of their development, but it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that their real value was appreciated by the...
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