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Forgotten Voices of the Great War
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Max Arthur, Imperial War Museum
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 ...
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We'll eat again : a collection of recipes from the war years
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Marguerite Patten, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
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Forgotten Voices of the Falklands: The Real Story of the Falklands War
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Hugh McManners, Imperial War Museum
The Falklands War was a turning point in modern British history. On the one hand, it was what some considered to be the 'last of the great Elizabethan adventures', with the Royal Navy pulling off an incredible feat of maritime warfare, under the most appallingly risky circumstances. On the other hand, it was the first war of the modern age, using ...
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The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front
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Malcolm Brown
World War I has long been acknowledged as one of the great traumas of modern history. In this conflict the Western Front - for the British, the French, the Americans and the principal enemy, the Germans - was the central stage. Basically it was there that the war was lost and won. But the nature of the warfare that took place there was so horrific ...
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Spitfire Summer: When Britain Stood Alone
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Dr. Malcolm Brown
In the summer of 1940 Britain stood alone as Nazi Germany was swiftly tightening its grip on Europe. Hitler's forces appeared to be invincible, having swept through Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and France. Invasion seemed inevitable as the Fuhrer's eyes turned to Britain, isolated against the might of fascism. But Hitler reckoned without the ...
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The Imperial War Museum Book of Modern Warfare
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This title concerns British and Commonwealth campaigns and conflicts since 1945 in: Palestine, Malaya, Korea, Kenya, Cyprus, Canal Zone and Suez, Muscat and Oman, Brunei and Borneo, South Arabia/Aden, Northern Ireland, Dhofar, Falklands, the Gulf, Bosnia and Kosovo.
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The Battle of Britain and the Blitz: Voices from the Twentieth Century
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Nigel Fountain, War Museum Imperial
By June 1940 Britain faced the enemy across the English Channel with an anxious sense that very little kept her from being subjugated by the overwhelming might of the Nazi forces. What rescued the country was the Royal Air Force's triumph in the Battle of Britain, and the encouragement and endurement of the people who lived, worked and suffered ...
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VE Day : victory in Europe 1945.
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Robin Cross, Imperial War Museum
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The First World War : ephemera, mementoes, documents
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Maurice Rickards, Michael Moody, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
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Rationing
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Stewart Ross, Imperial War Museum
Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this new series uses primary source evidence such as diaries, posters, newspaper cuttings and oral accounts to portray life on the Home Front.
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Women's war
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Stewart Ross, Imperial War Museum
Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this series uses primary source evidence such as diaries, posters, newspaper cuttings and oral accounts to portray life on the Home Front.
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Under Fire: Children of the Second World War Tell Their Stories
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Imperial War Museum Phil Robins
Using taped interviews from the Imperial War Museum's extensive Sound Archive, Phil Robins has gathered together this compelling collection of first-hand accounts from people who grew up during the Second World War. As well as British children's stories of evacuation and the Blitz, this book also includes memories from survivors of the Holocaust ...
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The British Army: The Definitive History of the Twentieth Century
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Imperial War Museum (Creator), Max Hastings (Introduction by)
Buyers of military history nowadays want their subjects personalised, with first-hand accounts, which is why "Stalingrad" by Anthony Beevor, and Max Arthur's "Last Post" were such hits with the public. Thus Cassell and the Imperial War Museum have united to produce definitive illustrated histories of the British forces over the past century of ...
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Union Jack: A Scrapbook: British Forces' Newspapers 1939-1945
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Imperial War Museum
From 1939 to 1945, the fighting troops' own daily newspaper "Union Jack", and others such as "Parade" and "Crusader", told the story of the war in words and pictures to the men at the front. This book looks at these papers, which are now archive material at the Imperial War Museum.
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Special relations : transatlantic letters linking three English evacuees and their families, 1940-45
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Jocelyn Statler, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
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Go to it! : victory on the home front 1939 to 1945
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Asa Briggs, Imperial War Museum
Two British forces played a part in the Allied victory in the Second World War. The contribution of the army, navy and RAF is well understood and appreciated. Less well known, but of equal significance, are the endeavours of those involved in the war effort at home. Looking back at the twentieth century from the vantage point of the new millennium ...
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Roads to Glory
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Richard Aldington
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Great Battles of World War II: a Visual History of Victory, Defeat and Glory
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The Imperial War Museum book of war behind enemy lines : special forces in action 1940-1945.
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Julian Thompson, Imperial War Museum
Examines the "golden age" of special forces and their leaders, including: the SAS, Long Range Desert Group, SBS, Popski's Private Army, Chindits, Stirling, Wingate and Calvert. From diaries, letters and other reminiscences, this book features the voice of the combatant.
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The Imperial War Museum book of the war at sea : the Royal Navy in the second world war
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Julian Thompson, Imperial War Museum
Major General Julian Thompson uses the wealth of literary and photographic features in the Imperial War Museum to chronicle the great naval actions of World War II and the experiences of the men who fought them. The book includes extracts from memoirs, letters and taped interviews.
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Forgotten Voices of the Second World War: Including Interviews from the Imperial War Museum Archives
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Max Arthur, Carolyn Fry, Georgia Marnham (Editor)
Taken from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this is a collection of audiobooks that tell the real story of WWII in sound. Programme 1 covers September 1939 - June 1941 and includes the outbreak of war - Dunkirk - Battle of Britain - the Blitz - sinking of the Bismark - Battle of Crete - Hitler invades Russia. Programme 2 covers July 1941 - ...
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Churchill at War: His 'Finest Hour' in Photographs, 1940-1945
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Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museum: Churchill at War reveals the many sides of this remarkable man at war: army officer, war correspondent and political leader. This book covers his entire 50-year involvement in British warfare from his first army commission in 1895, through his participation in one of the last British cavalry charges at the Battle of Omdurman ...
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With a machine gun to Cambrai
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George Coppard
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HMS Belfast.
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Forgotten Voices of the Second World War: War in the Mediterranean
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Max Arthur, Timothy West (Narrator), Imperial War Museum (Contributions by)
When the Italian dictator Mussolini saw that Hitler was conquering Europe he decided that he too, would have a share of the plunder. He declared war on the Allies, vowed to control the Mediterranean, and with his 300,000 troops stationed in Libya, take Egypt and the Suez Canal. But he knew that this could not be accomplished while the strategic ...
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