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  • 1000 Days on the River Kwai

    The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

    de Cary Owtram ...
    A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir.Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a ... Leer más

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  • Escaping with His Life

    From Dunkirk to D-Day & Beyond

    "A fitting tribute . . . exceptional in covering the duration of WWII as a soldier, commando, POW, escaper, and on through D-Day to Victory." — FiretrenchVery few British soldiers could lay claim to such a full war as Leslie Young. Having survived the retreat to and evacuation from Dunkirk, he volunteered for the newly formed Commandos and took part in their first operation, the raid on the ... Leer más

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  • Churchill's Shadow Raiders

    The Race to Develop Radar, World War II's Invisible Secret Weapon

    de Damien Lewis ...
    From bestselling and award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis and for fans of Erik Larsen’s The Splendid and Vile and Alex Kershaw’s The Forgotten 500 comes a thrilling account of one of the most daring raids of WWII…the true story of the race to stop Hitler from developing a top-secret weapon that would change the course of history."One of the most readable World War 2 his... ... Leer más

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  • Nurses of Passchendaele

    Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914–1918

    The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at base hospitals near the French and Belgian coasts, nurses of many nations cared for these traumatized and damaged men.Drawing on letters, diaries ... Leer más

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  • The Polish 'Few'

    Polish Airmen in the Battle of Britain

    de Peter Sikora ...
    They came to fight for freedom and their country, they came to fight Germans. Men of the Polish Air Force, who had escaped first to France and then to Britain, to fly alongside the Royal Air Force just as Fighter Command faced its greatest challenge the Battle of Britain.Many of the Polish airmen joined existing RAF squadrons. The Poles also formed their own squadrons, but only four became ... Leer más

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  • Dunkirk: Nine Days That Saved An Army

    A Day-by-Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation

    de John Grehan ...
    The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each other, leaving what is, at times, a confusing picture. In this book, adopting a day by day approach, the author provides a clear portrayal of the unfolding drama on the perimeter around Dunkirk, in the port itself and ... Leer más

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  • Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots

    A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

    "Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients."— Daily MailIn the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical ... Leer más

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  • Death March Escape

    The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust

    "Blending elements of memoir, history, and biography," the son of a Holocaust survivor "portrays the horrifying reality of the . . . concentration camps" ( Midwest Book Review).In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the harshest, cruelest camp in the Reich. After ten ... Leer más

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  • Voices from D-Day

    D-Day - June 6, 1944 - was a pivotal day in human history. This was the great turning point of the Second World War, when the largest armada ever assembled took a third of a million Allied men across the English Channel.The invasion force of 150,000 troops from Britain, the United States, Canada and many other nations fighting on the Allied side on D-Day under the command of Generals Eisenhower ... Leer más

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  • Pirate Women

    The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas

    In the first-ever Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside—and sometimes in command of—their male counterparts. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom. History has ... Leer más

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  • How Churchill Saved Civilization

    The Epic Story of 13 Years That Almost Destroyed the Civilized World

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    How Churchill Saved Civilization resolves the lingering mysteries surrounding the causes of the Second World War, and what transpired during the war to bring its end result. It proposes answers to such questions as Why were the Allies unprepared?”, Why did France collapse so quickly?”, Why didn’t the British government accept Hitler’s peace proposals?” and Why did the Germans allow Hitler to ... Leer más

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  • Sherman's March

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    A New York Times–bestselling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War.In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, Gen. William T. Sherman vowed to "make Georgia howl." The hero of Shiloh and his 65,000 Federal troops destroyed the great city of Atlanta, captured Savannah, and cut a ... Leer más

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