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True war & combat stories
Deserter: A Hidden History of the Second World War
A poet, a gangster and an agent of the Resistance; ’Deserter’ details three astonishing lives shaped by the decision to flee during WWII.
Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War
Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.
Controversial and revisionist history of America’s first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series – written and presented by star military historian, Richard Holmes.
The Lost: A search for six of six million
A writer’s search for his family’s tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory.
Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.
The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware.
Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 – The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire
(This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations. Maps are best viewed on a tablet.)
The epic story of one of the most savage battles of the Second World War.
Tommy’s War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918
The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.
Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters – The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship: Unabridged edition
Target Tirpitz is gripping WW2 storytelling at its best and a return to the RAF territory of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling Bomber Boys and Fighter Boys.
Waiting for Robert Capa
A gorgeously written, ENGLISH PATIENT-style novel about the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. Optioned to be the next film by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL).
The Blitz: The British Under Attack: Unabridged edition
From the author of ‘Wartime’ and ‘The Thirties’comes an outstanding history of the most prolonged and devastating attack ever endured by Britain’s civilian population – the Blitz.
How the Girl Guides Won the War: Unabridged edition
A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world – the Girl Guides – and how they helped win the war.