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  • No Escape

    The Memoirs of a POW in Stalag XXA

    by Vic Markham ...
    This story of life in a German prisoner of war camp is different from the normal British POW story, as the author was a Gunner in the Royal Artillery - not an officer - who was accepted by the German Authorities as a Medical Orderly and, therefore, Protected Personnel. As such, he gives a unique portrait of being a prisoner of the Germans.He gives graphic descriptions of the day to day life in POW ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Long Way Home

    The Other Great Escape

    by John McCallum ...
    The first-hand account of three Scotsmen and their dramatic escape from Nazi Germany's Stalag VIIIB prison camp during World War II.At the age of nineteen, Glasgow-born John McCallum signed up as a Supplementary Reservist in the Signal Corps. A little over a year later, he was in France, working frantically to set up communication lines as Europe once more hurtled towards war. Wounded and captured ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War

    by Terry Deary ...
    Series series Horrible Science
    The First World War was a war fought on a global scale: so terrible and deadly that they called it "the war to end all wars". From foot soldiers drowning in mud to fighter pilots being blown out of the sky, if you like your history horrible this is the book for you! ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Longest Walk Home

    The Epic 2,000-Mile Escape of a WWII Prisoner of War

    by Ray Bailey, David Wilkins ...
    In 1940, Private Raymond Bailey, a 21-year-old Vauxhall motors apprentice, was captured in northern France, becoming a Nazi prisoner of war. But he wouldn't remain one for long...The Longest Walk Home is the incredible account of his daring 2,000 mile escape across Europe and over the Pyrenees, to the safety of British Gibraltar, and home in time for Christmas. Along the way Ray has nerve ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg

    A Green Howard's Wartime Memoir

    by Bill Cheall ...
    A British infantryman shares his harrowing story of life on the frontlines of WWII, from the North African Campaign to the invasion of Germany.In April 1939, when Bill Cheall joined the famous Yorkshire infantry regiment known as the Green Howards, he could not have imagined the drama, trauma, rewards and anguish that awaited him. But he recounts it all here, in this vivid memoir of service and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rifleman

    A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    by Rick Stroud, Victor Gregg ...
    Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. He ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front

    Fighting with Hitler's Latvian SS

    by Mintauts Blosfelds ...
    The memoir of a reluctant soldier coerced into military service by the Nazis and driven from his homeland by the Russians.Following the conquest of his native Latvia by the Nazis, Mintauts Blosfelds was given the stark choice: service in the SS or forced labor in a slave camp. So he "volunteered" to fight for the Nazis.In this memoir he describes his training and how he became an instructor before ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never Surrender

    by Michael Dobbs ...
    Winston Churchill embarks on a battle of wills with Adolf Hitler in the run-up to Dunkirk. The compelling new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Winston’s War.Winston Churchill at his lowest ebb – pitted in personal confrontation with Adolf Hitler, and with ghosts from his tormented past.Friday 10 May 1940. Hitler launches a devastating attack that within days will overrun France, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • From Geordie Land to No Mans Land

    by George Russell Elder ...
    In writing his `one and only' book, George Elder, a proud Geordie, detailed many of his experiences endured whilst serving in the British Army during World War 1. Many of his tales would not have been appreciated by his peers, but they actually happened and would have been recognised by the common soldier. From Geordie Land to No Mans land was written to inform his family, friends and anyone ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Forgotten Voices Of The Great War

    by Max Arthur ...
    In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important archive of its kind in the world. Authors have occasionally been granted access to the vaults, but ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mark of the Lion: the Story of Charles Upham VC & Bar

    by Kenneth Sandford ...
    Charles Upham was the great New Zealand war hero. He was one of the few people in history to have won the Victoria Cross twice, setting new standards of personal heroism during World War II. A quietly spoken sheep farmer back home in Canterbury, at the front in Crete and North Africa he destroyed enemy machinegun posts single-handed and led a frontal assault on enemy guns. His exploits and ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • 1915

    The Death of Innocence

    by Lyn Macdonald ...
    Lyn Macdonald's 1915: The Death of Innocence is a uniquely compelling blend of military history and poignant memories of the fighters who survived the ordeal.By Christmas 1915, the wild wave of enthusiasm that had sent men flocking to join up a few months earlier had begun to tail off, and though the Regulars of the original Expeditionary Force had suffered 90 percent casualties, most, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD