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  • THERE'S NO HOME
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    THERE'S NO HOME
    ALEXANDER BARON
    In August 1943, Sergeant Craddock leads his battle-weary platoon down Via Garibaldi in Catania, Sicily. Struck by the oppressive heat and their alien new surroundings, the men soon settle into this lull in their combat experience. The next few weeks take on a dreamlike quality as newfound relationships flourish and the war itself – let alone homelife in Britain – recedes into t...

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  • PAID TO BE SAFE
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    PAID TO BE SAFE
    MARGARET MORRISON / PAMELA TULK-HART
    When Singapore falls to Japan’s Imperial army in early 1942, the life that Susan Sandyman has lovingly created abroad is shattered. Forced to flee home to the hamlets of southern England, she can either succumb to grief or find solace in war work. When a chance encounter with the elusive Air Transport Auxiliary pilots stirs a spark of excitement, Susan’s decision is made. Based...

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  • WARRIORS FOR THE WORKING DAY
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    WARRIORS FOR THE WORKING DAY
    PETER ELSTOB
    Based on Peter Elstob’s own wartime experiences, Warriors for the Working Day follows one tank crew as they proceed from the beaches of Normandy into newly liberated Western Europe, brilliantly evoking the claustrophobia, heat and intensity of tank warfare. ...

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  • PATROL
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    PATROL
    FRED MAJDALANY
    1943, the North African desert. Major Tim Sheldon, exhausted and battle weary, is asked to carry out a futile and unexpected patrol mission. Fred Majdalany’s intimate, tense novel puts this so-called minor mission centre stage, as over the course of the day and during the patrol itself, Sheldon reminisces about his time as a soldier, his own future, and what it means to confron...

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  • LIFE AND DEATH IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
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    LIFE AND DEATH IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
    GUY MAYFIELD
    Guy Mayfield was the Station Chaplain at RAF Duxford during the Battle of Britain. His diary is a moving account of the war fought by the young pilots during that summer of 1940, providing a unique and intimate insight into one of the most pivotal moments in British history. Frequently speaking to pilots who knew they may not survive the next 24 hours, Mayfield’s diary provides...

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  • CHURCHILL'S COOKBOOK
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    CHURCHILL'S COOKBOOK
    GEORGINA LANDEMARE
    Churchill is well-known for his hearty appetite and love of food. This book gives a fascinating insight into what he ate during the Second World War, containing over 250 delicious recipes created by his personal cook, Georgina Landemare. From mouthwatering cakes, biscuits and puddings, to healthy salads and warming soups, it revives some forgotten British classics and tradition...

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  • FIRST WORLD WAR POEMS FROM THE FRONT
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    FIRST WORLD WAR POEMS FROM THE FRONT
    PROF PAUL O'PREY
    From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness. This anthology focuses on those poets who were on the front line, from the famous Sassoon, Owens and Graves, to nurses like Vera Brittain. The poems are acc...

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  • GUESTS OF THE THIRD REICH
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    GUESTS OF THE THIRD REICH
    ANTHONY RICHARDS
    More than 170,000 prisoners of war were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Conditions were tough. Rations were meager. The days dragged and there was a constant battle against boredom. Some men were forced to work, often at heavy labor. Utilizing IWM's collections of letters, diaries, memoirs and sound interviews, this gripping and poignant narrativ...

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  • TO ALL THE LIVING
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    TO ALL THE LIVING
    MONICA FELTON
    In January 1941 Griselda Green arrives at Blimpton, a place ‘so far from anywhere as to be, for all practical purposes, nowhere.’ Monica Felton’s 1945 novel gives a lively account of the experiences of a group of men and women working in a munitions factory during the Second World War. Wide-ranging in the themes it touches on, including class, sexism, socialism, fear of communi...

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  • GREEN HANDS
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    GREEN HANDS
    BARBARA WHITTON
    It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in rural Scotland. Here they are introduced to the realities of ‘lending a hand on the land’, as back-breaking work and inhospitable weather mean they struggle to keep their spirits high. Soon one of the girls falters, and Bee and Pauline receive a new posting to a No...

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  • MAILED FIST
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    MAILED FIST
    CEDRIC FOLEY
    In April 1943, newly commissioned John Foley is posted to command Five Troop and their trusty Churchill tanks Avenger, Alert, and Angler – thus begins his initiation into the Royal Armoured Corps. Covering the trials of training, embarkation to France and battle experience through Normandy, the Netherlands, the Ardennes campaign and into Germany, Foley’s intimate and detailed a...

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  • PATHFINDERS
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    PATHFINDERS
    CECIL LEWIS
    Over the course of one night in 1942, the crew members of Wellington bomber ‘P for Pathfinder’ each reflect on the paths of their own lives, as they embark on a fateful mission deep into the heart of Nazi Germany. Cecil Lewis’ novel examines the life of every man in turn, rendering a moving account of each as not merely a nameless crew member, but as an individual with a life l...

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  • SWORD OF BONE
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    SWORD OF BONE
    ANTHONY RHODES
    It is September 1939. Shortly after war is declared, Anthony Rhodes is sent to France, serving with the British Army. His days are filled with the minutiae and mundanities of Army life – friendships, billeting, administration – as the months of the ‘Phoney War’ quickly pass and the conflict seems a distant prospect. It is only in the spring of 1940 that the true situation becom...

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  • MR BUNTING AT WAR
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    MR BUNTING AT WAR
    ROBERT GREENWOOD
    George Bunting, businessman, husband and father, lives a quiet life at home in Laburnam Villa in Essex, reading about the progress of the war in his trusty Siren newspaper and heading to work every day at same the warehouse where he has been employed for his entire adult life. Viewed with an air of slight amusement by his three children, Mr Bunting’s war efforts comprise mainly...

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  • SQUADRON AIRBORNE
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    SQUADRON AIRBORNE
    ELLESTON TREVOR
    In the summer of 1940, the Battle of Britain rages in the skies over southern England. Nineteen-year-old Pilot Officer Peter Stuyckes arrives at RAF Westhill and is immediately put to the test. Based on the author’s own service as an RAF Flight Engineer, Squadron Airborne takes place over one unforgettable week that summer, depicting with intensity and brilliance the work of th...

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  • PLENTY UNDER THE COUNTER
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    PLENTY UNDER THE COUNTER
    KATHLEEN HEWITT
    London, 1942. Flight-lieutenant David Heron, home on convalecent leave, awakes to the news that a murder victim has been discovered in the garden of his boarding house. With a week until his service resumes, Heron sets out to solve the murder. Drawn into a world of sytery and double-dealing, he soon realises that there is more to the inhabitants of the boarding house than meets...

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  • EIGHT HOURS FROM ENGLAND
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    EIGHT HOURS FROM ENGLAND
    ANTHONY QUAYLE
    Autumn 1943. Realising his feelings for his sweetheart are not reciprocated, Major John Overton accepts a posting behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Albania. Arriving to find the situation in disarray, Overton attempts to overcome geographical challenges and political intrigues to set up a new camp in teh mountains overlooking the Adriatic. As he struggles to complete his miss...

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  • FROM THE CITY, FROM THE PLOUGH
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    FROM THE CITY, FROM THE PLOUGH
    ALEXANDER BARON
    January 1944, the south coast of England. The Fifth Battalion, Wessex Regiment wait patiently and nervously for the order to embark. There is boredom and fear, comedy and pathos as the men - all drawn from different walk of life - await their order to move. With an economy of language that belies its emotional impact, From the City, From the Plough is a vivid and moving account...

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  • TRIAL BY BATTLE
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    TRIAL BY BATTLE
    DAVID PIPER
    October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India and taken under the wing of the dogmatic, overbearing Acting-Captain Sam Holl. Following the Japanese advance on Singapore, the men are deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and, ultimately, the futility of war. ...

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