Britain's Secret Defences: Civilian saboteurs, spies and assassins during the Second World War
By: Andrew Chatterton
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The narrative surrounding Britain’s anti-invasion forces has often centered on ‘Dad’s Army’-like ch…
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1. Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-43
By: James Holland
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
June 11, 1940. Italian aircraft pummel the idyllic Mediterranean island of Malta. It is the first o… read more
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2. Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
By: Carol Shaben
4.75
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was s… read more
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3. Arnhem Lift: A Fighting Glider Pilot Remembers
By: Louis Hagen
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In 1945 Louis Hagen anonymously published his personal account of the battle of Arnhem. It became a… read more
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5. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
By: James Holland
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, driv… read more
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7. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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8. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
9. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
10. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more
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11. Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller)
By: Simon Scarrow
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1940. The world holds its breath and hopes for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s grip on po… read more
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12. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
By: James Holland
4.33
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more
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13. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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14. Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day
By: James Holland
4.47
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legen… read more
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15. Snow Country
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.71
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While work… read more
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"I think perhaps the reincarnation is not of other men through me, but of myself at other times. I've been forced by circumstance into many separate lives."-Sebastian Faulks, Snow Country
16. V2: A Novel of World War II
By: Robert Harris
3.91
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more
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17. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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18. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
By: James Holland
4.45
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more
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19. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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20. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
21. Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
By: Al Murray
4.10
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run para… read more
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22. Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1)
By: Simon Scarrow
4.20
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia … read more
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23. Sand & Steel: The D-Day Invasions and the Liberation of France
By: Peter Caddick-Adams
4.63
Format: 1025 pages, Hardcover
Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental … read more
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24. Harrier 809: The Epic Story of How a Small Band of Heroes Won Victory in the Air Against Impossible Odds
By: Rowland White
4.41
Format: 630 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A COMPELLING, FAST-PACED NARRATIVE THAT THRUSTS US INTO THE COCKPIT. A MUST-READ!’ Dan HamptonApri… read more
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25. No Picnic
By: Julian Thompson
4.08
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
A new edition of the classic Falklands War memoir “which many regard as the most perceptive descrip… read more
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26. Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in WW2: An Authorized History
By: Mark Urban
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
On the 80th anniversary of their first crucial campaign, in Operation Torch in North Africa, Mark U… read more
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27. Secret Britain: A journey through WWII's hidden bases and battlegrounds
By: Sinclair McKay
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the stories of the brave men and women who worked, trained and fought across the UK, from … read more
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28. Britain's Secret Defences: Civilian saboteurs, spies and assassins during the Second World War
By: Andrew Chatterton
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The narrative surrounding Britain’s anti-invasion forces has often centered on ‘Dad’s Army’-like ch… read more
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29. Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
By: Saul David
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed historian Saul David, a stunning and gripping new history of the British airborne ex… read more
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30. Devil Dogs
By: Saul David
4.51
Format: 625 pages, Kindle Edition
A Times History Book of the Year 2022From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramat… read more
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31. Sword Beach: The Untold Story of D-Day's Forgotten Battle
By: Stephen Fisher
4.65
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
'Stephen Fisher is one of the best kept secrets in military history. With his wealth of knowledge a… read more
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