c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period) Archives

c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)

Women journalists in WW2: Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, Sigrid Schultz, Virginia Cowles, Clare Hollingworth, Helen Kirkpatrick.

Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Li ...

Judith Mackrell

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OL gets under the skin of a dozen glamorous but stifled figures: Susan Sontag, Christopher Isherwood, Nina Simone... With a sympathetic eye, she explores the conditions needed to cultivate... read more

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Olivia Laing

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SM's parents were German Jewish refugees; he was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. His maternal aunts concealed their origins too and had very diffe... read more

How to Be a Refugee: One Family’s Story of Exile and Belonging ...

Simon May

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A new assessment of Alan Brooke, first Viscount Alanbrooke, which examines his treatment at the hands of historians as well as his importance to Churchill.

Alan Brooke: Churchill’s Right-Hand Critic: A Reappraisal of Lor ...

Andrew Sangster

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Parallel possible worlds spool from a German rocket strike in London in 1944: five children are killed but, in a feat of authorial engineering, are given futures nevertheless. A dazzling cel... read more

Light Perpetual

Francis Spufford

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1940s rocket-science sci-fi: a Nazi politician is lured into collaborating with the American space programme... what follows is a clever, satirical exploration of morality and technological ... read more

A History of What Comes Next: The captivating speculative fiction for ...

Sylvain Neuvel

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It was the biggest seaborne landing in history; a difficult campaign, not least because of the heat. Its success was hard-won, and crucial to the course of the war.

Sicily ’43

James Holland

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The clandestine manoeuvres of one branch of military intelligence, responsible for saving thousands of lives. Airey Neave, Jimmy Langley, Sam Derry and Mary Lindell emerge as central figures... read more

MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World W ...

Helen Fry

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In 1942, seventeen ships were bombed in Bari. One of them contained mustard gas. The appalling results, though hushed up, fortunately became known to a research scientist.

The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched t ...

Jennet Conant

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It seems the 'Mrs Burton' (born Ursula Kuczynski) who pedalled around the English countryside in 1942 was a colonel in the Red Army. Her life story is extraordinary.

Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy

Ben Macintyre

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Two courageous Russian children must flee their home in WW2. Ages 10-13.

Red Stars

Davide Morosinotto

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A haunting and complex novel in which a British man discovers that his German grandfather fought on the Eastern Front, from a letter that he leaves on his death.

We Germans

Alexander Starritt

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When the author makes an impulsive trip to Koenigsberg, her grandmother - after sixty years' silence on the matter - begins to tell her own wartime story. Deeply moving. NB Publication ... read more

Inge’s War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler ...

Svenja O'Donnell

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The author's German grandparents were 'Mitlaufer' - those who went with the flow in the Third Reich. They just wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage... In this fascinating book... read more

Those Who Forget: One Family’s Story; A Memoir, a History, a War ...

Geraldine Schwarz

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A compelling and authoritative narrative of the bombing in 1945.

Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

Sinclair McKay

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The charming, funny wartime diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-1945: the latest Slightly Foxed limited edition.

To War with Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly ...

Hermione Ranfurly

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Normandy ’44: D-Day and the Battle for France ...

James Holland

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No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the land in wartime Engl ...

Ken Worpole

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