The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary Bomber Pilot, 'Cooler King' and Arch Escape Artist
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Joining the RAF in 1937, Peter Tunstall's military career was legendary. An infamous tormentor of...
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
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THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand -...
Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century
Isabella Image and Eve Rosenhaft
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This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence...
Cinemas and Cinemagoing in Wartime Britain, 1939-45: The Utility Dream Palace
Jeffrey Richards and Richard Farmer
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During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak....
Ice Cream, Gasmasks and God: A Young Girl Grows Up in the War Years
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Joyce Lovely grew up in Liverpool during World War 2, her family narrowly surviving a blitz which...
Japanese Battleships 1897-1945: A Photographic Archive
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This photographic archive contains some 125 stunning images of the battleships of the Imperial...
Harry's War: A British Tommy's Experiences in the Trenches in World War One
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This touching, brutally honest diary of a First World War soldier makes a fascinating contribution...
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
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Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads...
The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My SS Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation
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In 1926, at the age of twenty, a trainee dentist called Bruno Langbehn joined the Nazi party....
Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces
Antony Beevor, Lyuba Vinogradova and Arch Tait
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Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in...