Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor: Working with Bletchley Park, the SDs and the OSS
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The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of...
The Emperor's Tomb
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The Emperor's Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the...
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Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War
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This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at...
Jack and Hopit, Comrades in Arms: An Officer of the 9th Lancers in the Great War and His War Horse
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A chance discovery of the existence of the gravestone carved with the battle honours of Hopit - the...
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
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"A dynamic work of reportage" (The New York Times) written "with clarity and...wit" (The New York...
With the Tanks 1916-1918: Memoirs of a British Tank Commander in the Great War
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William Watson was a young Oxford post-graduate at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914....
Journey of a Thousand Miles: An Extraordinary Life
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Born into poverty in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second...
Divine Work: Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy
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"The Greater East Asian Film Sphere" (GEAFS) was a term that came into existence around 1941. Linked...
Blood on the Tide
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Blood on the Tide is a story of the sea and boats, murder and Nazis and takes the reader through...