In a court appearance in September 1930, Adolf Hitler declared we would never again try to overthrow the Weimar Republic by violent means. Rather, he informed the packed courtroom, once he had achieve …
The Pacific Theatre was the setting for some of World War II’s bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in Europe was winding down, fierce Japanese resistance and moun …
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George Downing was one of the English Civil War’s most cunning spies. As Oliver Cromwell’s head of military intelligence, he forged a career as a politician and diplomat, bribing, blackmailing and bro …
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July 1942: Rommel’s Panzerarmee pursues retreating Allied forces across North Africa, targeting Cairo and the vital Suez Canal. Control of these would give Hitler access to Middle Eastern oil fields a …
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‘Impressive… Glancey has written an engaging and affectionate account of the V-bombers, not least the figures who made it all possible.’ TelegraphTHE THREE VERY DIFFERENT models of V class bomber co …
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‘The VE Day book’ Amol Rajan, Today, Radio 4IN 1937, Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson created the social survey organisation Mass Observation to capture the thoughts, feelings and minutiae of individua …
‘Wonderfully nuanced, Guardian, Book of the DayWhen war broke out in September 1939, what was most striking in the German capital at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, al …
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**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**A New Statesman Book of the YearA Le Monde Best Book of 2025’Amazing … My book of the year’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest Is Politics ‘Chilling’ Financial Times’Blister …
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‘Cozzens is a master storyteller’ The Times’Extremely well researched’ Times Literary SupplementFrom the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressu …
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‘Highly original’ Simon Heffer, Telegraph’Masterful… A gripping tale’ Giles MiltonThey certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a foreign land. But, as locomoti …
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‘A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.’ Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in c …
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A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.
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‘The way I look at it is this…When you’re behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you’ve got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That’s why I like it.’Scottish-born but …
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A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year ‘An astonishing story… brilliantly told’ Antony Beevor’Gripping… Will appeal to anyone who relishes Ben Macintyre’s tales of wartime espionage and crypti …
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