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Franklin Watts
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This title offers a history of the war told through the words of the people who took part. From airmen to cooks and from ambulance drivers to front-line soldiers, the books explain how ordinary people coped with extraordinary situations: the Blitz, rationing, the fierce fighting of D-Day or the Battle of the Atlantic.
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On 26th May 1940, the British Admiralty launched Operation Dynamo. This famous rescue mission sent every available vessel to Dunkirk. Of the 850 ships that sailed, 235 were sunk by German aircraft or mines, but over 338,000 troops were safely rescued. This book presents the words of both the rescued and the rescuers.
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Publisher
Carlton
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The scale of the First World War was unprecedented; it was also the first war between industrialised nations with new and terrifying weapons. This fact-packed information book relates the unfolding events and the human stories in a way that brings history vividly to life.
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Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
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Stephen Bull provides a picture of trench warfare, from the construction of the trenches and their different types, to the new weaponry & tactics employed in defence & attack. Annotated trench maps highlight particular features of the trenches, while photographs & documents combine to give an account of war in the trenches.
11) Desert victory
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Ebury
Pub. Date
2011
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Told in the voices of the men who were there, this is the remarkable story of this significant Second World War Allied victory.
13) Rationing
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Publisher
Evans
Pub. Date
c2002
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Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this new series uses primary source evidence such as diaries, posters, newspaper cuttings and oral accounts to portray life on the Home Front.
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Ebury
Pub. Date
2007
Description
This skillfully compiled anthology draws on the successful 'Forgotten Voices' series. 'Lest We Forget' brings together first-hand recollections from the Great War to the Second World War to illustrate the impact of war. It is a moving insight into the conflicts of the 20th century.
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Virgin
Pub. Date
2009
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11:15am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers round their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement that has been feared for months: Britain will now be at war with Germany. 70 years on from that historic day, this book revisits the build-up, outbreak and first few months of World War Two.
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Profile
Pub. Date
2011
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Built as a temporary refuge in case of air raid attacks, Churchill's secret bunker was under the heart of central London & it became a second home to civil servants, military personnel & Churchill himself. This book includes first-hand accounts of people who lived there to reveal what life was like for them in the underground shelter.
18) The great escaper: the life and death of Roger Bushelllove, betrayal, Big X and The great escape
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Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2013
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Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape. Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers - a treasure trove of letters, photographs and diaries - to the Imperial War Museum. Through exclusive access to this material - as well as fascinating new research from other sources - Simon Pearson has now written...
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Ebury
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Following the publication of the remarkable 'Forgotten Voices of the Great War', Max Arthur has once again gone deep into the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive to create this landmark oral history of the most devastating conflict the world has ever seen, the Second World War.
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Ebury
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, this book brings together voices from both sides of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain to give a picture of this turbulent time. Soldiers, airmen, fire-fighters, air-wardens and civilians, people in the air and on the ground, give an account of Britain under siege.