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1	The Second World War more books like this by Winston S Churchill add to wishlist In six volumes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Goodbye to all that more books like this by Robert Graves add to wishlist Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and essayist, describes the events of his youth, and how he came--along with the rest of the world--to the end of his innocence during World War I. see all copies from $2.96! new only from $10.85! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Memoirs of the Second World War more books like this by Winston Churchill add to wishlist In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Nobel Prize winner Winston Churchill's essential, abridged memoirs of that time are reintroduced with an updated cover and a new low price. The quintessence of the war as seen by it's greatest player, in a one-volume abridged edition that captures all the drama of the original ... see all copies from $2.72! new only from $10.47! \| first editions \| SVS
4	In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War more books like this by David Reynolds add to wishlist Winston Churchill fought the World War II twice over-first as Prime Minister during the war, and then later as the wars premier historian. From 1948-54, he published six volumes of memoirs. They secured his reputation and shaped our understanding of the conflict to this day. Drawing on the drafts of Churchills manuscript as well as his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Eastern Approaches more books like this by Fitzroy Maclean, Sir. bart add to wishlist This is the classic true adventure story of a man who by the pen, the sword and the diplomatic pouch influenced some of the most significant events of our era. Here Fitzroy Maclean recounts his extraordinary adventures in Soviet Central Asia, in the Western Desert, where he specialized in hair-raising commando-style raids behind enemy lines, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.96! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher's Story more books like this by Martin Clemens add to wishlist This remarkable memoir by the near-mythic British district officer and coastwatcher who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive in the Pacific war is a compelling true adventure story based on a journal Martin Clemens kept during the war. At the same time, it might well be the last critical source of analysis of the Solomons campaign. ... see all copies from $15.17! new only from $39.95! \| first editions
7	The Wooden Horse more books like this by Eric Williams add to wishlist Published to coincide with a 6-part dramatized production on BBC Radio, this book tells the story one of the most ingenious and daring escapes of World War II. By concealing the entrance to a tunnel beneath a vaulting horse, three British officers were able to escape from a German prison camp. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Codebreaker in the Far East more books like this by Alan Stripp add to wishlist Codebreaker in the Far East is the first book to describe how Bletchley Park and its Indian and Far Eastern outposts broke a series of Japanese codes and cipher systems of dazzling variety and complexity. Their achievements made a major contribution to the Allied victory in Burma, and probably helped to shorten and win the war, perhaps by two or ... see all copies from $3.82! new only from $15.95! \| first editions
9	The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes more books like this by Gordon Welchman add to wishlist see all copies from $4.85! new only from $36.00! \| first editions
10	Sagittarius rising more books like this by Cecil Lewis add to wishlist Generally regarded as one of the classic memoirs of World War I, this book is a personal account of the air fighting that took place. The author, Cecil Lewis, was a British airman and also a founder-member of the BBC. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $19.14! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Ultra Secret more books like this by F. W. Winterbotham add to wishlist In 1974 it was this book that revealed to the world the Second World War's best kept secret: the operation - based at Bletchley Park and codenamed Ultra - which cracked the German cypher machine, Enigma. F.W. Winterbotham, chief of the air department of the Secret Intelligence Service during the war, was the man responsible for the organisation, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12	I go by sea, I go by land more books like this by P. L. Travers, Gertrude Hermes add to wishlist The diary, based on actual characters and events, of an eleven-year-old English girl who travels to America with her younger brother when World War II bombing raids threaten their country home. see all copies from $4.00! signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	War diaries, 1939-1945 more books like this by Alan Brooke Alanbrooke, Viscount, Alex Danchev, Daniel Todman add to wishlist Alanbrooke was CIGS - Chief of the Imperial General Staff - for the greater part of the Second World War. He acted as mentor to Montgomery and military adviser to Churchill, with whom he clashed. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff committee he also led for the British side in the bargaining and the brokering of the Grand Alliance, notably during ... see all copies from $19.73! new only from $181.59! \| first editions
14 view cover	Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall more books like this by Spike Milligan add to wishlist 'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train'. Spike Milligan's on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.69! \| first editions
15 view cover	The War the Infantry Knew, 1914-1919: A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium with the Second Battalion, His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, Founded on Personal Records, Recollections and Reflections more books like this by J C Dunn add to wishlist 'Sometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in 1938, it gained a reputation as an outstanding account of an infantry battalion's experience on the Western Front' Daily Telegraph ' I have been waiting ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $20.26! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Memoirs WW II CL more books like this by Wiston S Churchill, Winston Churchill add to wishlist From Britain's dearkest and finest hour to the great alliance and ultimate victory, the Second World War remains the pivotal event of our century. Winston Churchill's epic account of those times--for which he won the Nobel Prize in Literature--sold hundreds of thousands or copies in its original six-volume format. Now, a generation of readers will ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.33! \| first editions
17 view cover	Men at Arnhem more books like this by Geoffrey Powell add to wishlist In the fall of 1945, Allied commanders planned to land airborne divisions in an attempt to capture a series of bridges behind German lines, including the "bridge too far" at Arnhem. Geoffrey Powell, himself a veteran of the Arnhem operation, drew on conversations with many other survivors of the battle to write one of the most dramatic of all ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $16.24! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Somme more books like this by Lyn Macdonald add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.13! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Monty's Iron Sides: From the Normandy Beaches to Bremen with the 3rd Division more books like this by Patrick Delaforce add to wishlist Major-General Bernard Montgomery commanded the British 3rd Division in the Low Countries with skill and determination in the opening stages of World War II, culminating in the Allied evacuation from Dunkirk in 1940. The 3rd Division, which subsequently became known throughout the British Army as Monty's "Iron Sides", included in its ranks the ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $32.57! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Colditz Story more books like this by P R Reid add to wishlist Colditz was the last stop for prisoners of war in the Second World War. It was to this impregnable fortress that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in escaping from other camps, such as Stalag Luft III (of THE GREAT ESCAPE FAME). Once within the walls of Colditz, the Germans reasoned, escape was impossible. And yet during the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	Corps commander more books like this by Sir Brian Horrocks add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! first editions
22 view cover	Fortune Favors the Bold: A British LRRP with the 101st more books like this by James Walker, Dan McIsaac (Introduction by) add to wishlist Born in England, James Walker was raised almost exclusively in an orphanage. After he joined the British army as a teen, his mother, living in the States, brought him to America. There he volunteered for the LRRP detachment of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. He soon became "Limey", the only British citizen in the 101st LRRPs. They were ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $72.69!
23	Enemy in the Sky: My 1940 Diary more books like this by Sandy Johnstone add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	Eclipse more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist Alan Moorehead was a newspaper correspondent in World War II, celebrated as a master of reportage. This is his narrative of the last years of the war, throughout which he was constantly at the heart of the conflict: from the Italian front, to exhorting D-Day troops with Montgomery, on the beach for De Gaulle's return to France, preceding the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	To the Kwai-And Back: War Drawings 1939-1945 more books like this by Ronald Searle add to wishlist In 1939, as an art student, Ronald Searle volunteered for the army, embarking for Singapore in 1941. Within a month of his arrival there, however, he became a prisoner of the Japanese, and after 14 months in a prisoner-of-war camp, was sent north to a work camp on the Burma Railway. In May 1944, he was sent to the notorious Changi Gaol in ... see all copies from $5.97! new only from $21.00! \| first editions

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