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World War II Flashbacks eBook Series

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  • Time at War

    by Nicholas Mosley ...
    Series series World War II Flashbacks
    Although Nicholas Mosley has written two volumes of family biography and a volume of memoirs, he has, until now, avoided writing about his World War Two experiences.The son of Sir Oswald Mosley who, as the leader of the British Union of Fascists, had been jailed with his second wife, Diana (one of the Mitford sisters), early on in the war ostensibly as a security risk. Despite this, Nicholas was ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

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  • Goodbye to All That

    by Robert Graves ...
    The poet's "account of trench life . . . still grips the reader," making his WWI memoir "a classic of English autobiography, and a subversive tour de force" ( The Guardian).Goodbye to All That is English poet and soldier Robert Graves's "bitter leave-taking" of England after his experiences during World War I. A testimony to the shifts in society following the war, the book offers an ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Great Britain's Great War

    by Jeremy Paxman ...
    Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.***We may think we know about it, but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War?The well-known images - the pointing finger of Lord Kitchener; a Tommy buried in the mud of the Western Front; the ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Happy Odyssey

    by Adrian Carton de Wiart ...
    The legendary British Army officer recounts his experiences in the Boer War and both World Wars in this memoir with a foreword by Winston Churchill.Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart had one of the most extraordinary military careers in the history of the British Army. His gallantry in combat won him a Victoria Cross and a Distinguished Service Order, as well as an eyepatch and an empty ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beauty and the Sorrow

    An Intimate History of the First World War

    by Peter Englund ...
    Translated by Peter Graves ...
    An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Both Sides of the Wire

    The memoir of an Australian officer captured during the Great War

    by William Cull, Aaron Pegram ...
    This is Bill Cull's unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a POW until the end of the war.Captain William Cull fought the First World War from both sides of the wire. As a young infantry officer on the Allied side of the Western Front, Cull frequently led patrols out into No Man's Land and raids on ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • In Action with the S.A.S.

    A Soldiers Odyssey from Dunkirk to Berlin

    by Roy Close ...
    A World War II memoir of a clerk who put down his pen and took up a weapon, rising through the ranks to become an elite Special Air Service soldier.Roy Close's wartime experiences make breathtaking reading. Mobilized in 1939 he became part of the BEF and was fortunate to avoid death or captivity during the German blitzkrieg and escape through Dunkirk. Sent to North Africa, he joined the Paras and, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never Surrender

    A Novel of Winston Churchill

    by Michael Dobbs ...
    From Michael Dobbs, author of the book that inspired the smash hit Netflix series House of Cards, Never Surrender finds newly-elected Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a personal confrontation with Adolf Hitler.The battle begins on Friday, May 10, 1940, when Hitler launches a devastating attack that within days will overrun France, Holland and Belgium and bring Britain to its knees at Dunkirk. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • A Long Way Home

    One POW's story of escape and evasion during World War II

    by Charles Granquist ...
    The son of a World War I veteran, Charles Granquist was 17 when war was declared with Germany in 1939. He lied about his age, joined the infantry and was sent to Egypt. Like so many other young men at the time, Granquist did not know what to expect. All he really cared about was doing his duty and serving his country. He never even contemplated his chances of becoming a prisoner of war - he was ... Read more

    $3.01 USD

  • Shame and the Captives

    A Novel

    by Thomas Keneally ...
    “If the legendary Schindler’s List was not enough to showcase Thomas Keneally’s literary mastery, then [this novel] surely will” (New York Daily News) as the Booker Prize-winning author reimagines from all sides the drastic true events of the night more than one thousand Japanese POWs staged the largest and bloodiest prison escape of World War II.Alice is living on her father-in-law’s farm on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • To the Victor the Spoils

    by Sean Longden ...
    From the D-Day landings in June 1944 to the final declaration of peace the following year the Allied forces fought a bitter battle to the end against Hitler's Nazi Germany. Sean Longden re-tells the unexpected true story of life among the ranks of Field Marshall Montgomery's 21st Army group and reveals a tale of sex, burglary, rape, pillage and alcohol. Uncovering new material from interviews, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Private Beatson's War

    Life, Death and Hope on the Western Front

    Edited by Stuart Humphreys, Shaun Springer ...
    Until recently James Beatson was one of the millions of forgotten soldiers of the Great War. But after 90 years his diary has been rediscovered, perfectly preserved, and his story can now be told. It is a moving, intensely personal and beautifully written narrative by an extraordinary young man who witnessed one of the darkest episodes in European history. His experience gives us a telling insight ... Read more

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