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  • Mabel's War

    Love and Hope Beyond the Blitz

    by Mabel Hewitt, Barbara Jones ...
    With devastating clarity and gentle humour, Mabel Hewitt takes us through her extraordinary life, from her childhood in the shadow of the First World War right up to the present day. Born in the tumultuous thirties, when the threat of the poorhouse hung over working families, she was just 10 years old when war clouds began to gather across Europe. She remembers air-raid sirens, taking shelter ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day

    My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller

    by Captain Tom Moore ...
    Embark on an enchanting journey into our country's past hundred years through the remarkable life of Captain Sir Tom MooreTHE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful life story with lessons for us all . . . beautifully written' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Gloriously enthralling' DAILY MAIL__________Captain Sir Tom Moore's story is all our stories . . .... ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • Behind Enemy Lines

    The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero

    by Sir Tommy Macpherson, Richard Bath ...
    With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a L�gion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army.Yet for 65 years the Highlander's story has remained untold. Few know how, aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers of the feared Das Reich tank column to surrender, or how Tommy ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Women in the Second World War

    by Collette Drifte ...
    Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women's personal accounts of what their lives were like and what particular experiences they had while serving. They were all ordinary British women, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Quiet on the Home Front

    An Oral History of Life in Britain During the First World War

    by Richard van Emden, Steve Humphries ...
    A "fascinating" look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War ( World War One Illustrated).The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades.Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have ... Read more

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  • Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II

    by Jacky Hyams ...
    They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, mums and teenage girls, all 'doing their bit' for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in cast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets and war machines that would ensure victory for Britain.It was dangerous, dirty and exhaustive work. They worked round the clock, often exposed to toxic, lethal chemicals. A factory ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Pamela's War

    A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands During the Second World War

    by Cherryl Vines ...
    It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a deathly hush has fallen. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, has declared that, despite the best efforts of the politicians of the day to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War on our Doorstep

    London's East End and how the Blitz Changed it Forever

    by Harriet Salisbury, The Museum of London Group ...
    London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. In the early 20th century, families crowded into single rooms, children played on the streets and neighbours' doors were never locked in case you needed an escape route from the police...World War 2 changed everything. During the Blitz, men set off for work never to return and rows of houses were reduced to rubble overnight ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • How We Lived Then

    History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A

    by Norman Longmate ...
    Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned themselves with the individual's experience. The problems of the ordinary family are barely ever mentioned - food rationing, clothes rationing, ... Read more

    $31.39 USD

  • Blitz Diary

    Life Under Fire in the Second World War

    by Carol Harris, Mike Brown ...
    During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blitz, A Very Peculiar History

    by David Arscott ...
    Series Book 14 - A Very Peculiar History
    Taking a unique look at how Britain survived the bombing of its major cities, 'The Blitz, A Very Peculiar History' tells a story of blackouts, Bletchley Park and bravery during the darkest (literally) period of World War II. From Dunkirk to Dad's Army, explore the many ways in which Britain tried to foil the incoming bomber planes, featuring quirky stories and fascinating trivia about this period ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kitchener's Last Volunteer

    The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War

    by Dennis Goodwin, Henry Allingham ...
    Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in the First World War and is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. In Kitchener's Last Volunteer, he vividly recaptures how life was lived in the Edwardian era and how it was altered irrevocably by the slaughter of millions of men in the Great War, and by the subsequent ... Read more

    $9.89 USD