 | The Cruel Sea (Classics of War) by Nicholas Monsarrat
Buy used from: £10.72 A gripping tale into the lives of a ship's crew in the Royal Navy during the Second World War --- ONE OF THE BEST WAR NOVELS I HAVE YET READ
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 | And Then We Heard the Thunder (Howard University Press Library of Contemporary Literature) by John Oliver Killens
Buy used from: £15.07 Provides a little known aspect of the African-American experience in the Second World War
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 | Bluebirds by Margaret Mayhew
Buy used from: £0.01 Touching story of the lives of women who joined Britain's WAAF in WWII
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 | The Last Convertible by Anton Myrer
Buy used from: £0.01 Provides a soul-searing tale about a segment of the Second World War generation - through what was to have been the Harvard class of 1944
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 | Tanamera (Coronet Books) by Noel Barber
Buy used from: £0.01 A BEAUTIFULLY TOLD, EVOCATIVE STORY OF 'FORBIDDEN LOVE' SET IN WARTIME MALAYA AND SINGAPORE
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 | The Red Horse: A Novel by Eugenio Corti
Buy used from: £23.45 EPIC NOVEL DESCRIBES THE SUFFERING AND HEROISM OF ITALIAN SOLDIERS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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 | Love for an Enemy by Alexander Fullerton
Buy used from: £0.01 ADVENTURE/ROMANCE SET IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND EGYPT DURING 1941
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 | Black Out by John Lawton
Buy used from: £1.08 SPY THRILLER SET IN LONDON DURING 1944
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 | Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Buy new: £17.67 / Used from: £0.80 First Volume of a 4 volume story of a family in Britain, the Cazalets, from 1937 to 1946 - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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 | The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Buy used from: £1.28 PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD
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 | Dark Voyage by Alan Furst
Buy used from: £3.09 Reads like a film noir; chronicles a secret mission undertaken by a 'Spanish' freighter from Tangier to Sweden's Baltic coast during the late spring of 1941, just prior to Operation Barbarossa
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 | Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £6.99 The Second World War from the Japanese perspective - at home and overseas
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 | The Rising Sun: Tthe Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire (Modern Library War) by John Toland
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £5.93 EXCELLENT ACCOUNT OF THE SINO/PACIFIC WAR FROM THE JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE
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 | The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It (World War II library) by Gerald Astor
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.42 Provides probably the best eyewitness accounts of life in the Eighth Air Force (USAAF) you'll ever read!!!
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 | First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Buy used from: £13.37 Author's account of his life as a young RAF Spitfire pilot struggling to stay alive AND sane during the Battle of Britain
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 | The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay
Buy used from: £3.38 The BEST account of the Battle of Britain that I have yet read!!!
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 | A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
Buy used from: £3.29 Cornelius Ryan's account of the Battle of Arnhem from the Allied and German perspectives
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 | War as I Knew it by George S. Patton
Buy new: £8.94 / Used from: £4.75 General George S. Patton's diaries shedding light on his philosophy and attitudes towards war and combat - my Dad's general
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 | Blood for Dignity: The Story of the First Integrated Combat Unit in the U.S. Army by David P. Colley
Buy used from: £1.06 A STORY THAT NEEDS TO BE MORE WIDELY TOLD - book details the experiences of African-American GI's who volunteered for combat duty as infantrymen in Europe during the Second World War
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 | Segregated, Skies: All-black Combat Squadrons of World War II (Smithsonian History of Aviation & Spaceflight) by Stanley Sandler
Buy used from: £5.32 A comprehensive and deeply affecting account of the all-Black 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Medium Bombardment Group (denied combat service because of Jim Crow racism) during the Second World War
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 | Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experience of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans and African Americans in the Nazi Era (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Clarence Lusane
Buy new: £16.72 / Used from: £12.45 AN ASPECT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR THAT IS TOO OFTEN OVERLOOKED OR MARGINALIZED --- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
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 | Lest We Forget: Experiences of World War II Westindian Ex-Service Personnel by Robert N. Murray
Buy new: £10.76 / Used from: £3.34 Offers personal eyewitness accounts by West Indians who served in the British military during the Second World War
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 | Baa Baa Black Sheep by Greg Boyington
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Top U.S. Marine Corps War Ace of WWII tells his "show me a hero and I'll prove he's a bum" story
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 | Lost Victories: War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General by Erich Von Manstein
Buy new: £10.44 / Used from: £5.69 Memoirs of Feldmarschall Erich von Manstein, Germany's Most Brillant Strategist of the Second World War
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 | Is Paris Burning by Collins
Buy used from: £14.13 The account of the struggle to free Paris from German occupation during July and August 1944 - from a uniquely personal perspective
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