 | A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg
Buy used from: £4.21 The big, big picture
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![The World At War - Complete TV Series (11 Disc Box Set) [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R9YSNVADL._SL75_.jpg) | The World At War - Complete TV Series (11 Disc Box Set) [DVD]
Buy new: £27.88 / Used from: £29.00 Consolidating the big, big picture
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 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £4.49 I become interested specifically in the Russian experience
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 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £5.78 Likewise
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.48 Epic horror. Russia and Stalin learn to fight - even more viciously than the Nazis.
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![Enemy at the Gates [2001] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FREHD5EQL._SL75_.jpg) | Enemy at the Gates [2001] [DVD]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.50 Fictional but vivid account of the Stalingrad experience.
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 | The Second World War, 6 Volume Set by Winston S. Churchill
Buy used from: £108.95 Reading experience of a lifetime. Primary sources so must be read with caution. Outstanding literature.
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 | Moscow 1941: A City & Its People at War: A City and Its People at War by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 The Nazis are halted at last. Hitler's miscalculation becomes apparent.
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 | Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Max Hastings Sir
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.49 Germany's final agony.
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 | Rising Sun (Military Classics) by John Toland
Buy new: £10.87 / Used from: £9.19 Japan's war. Masterpiece of integration of the big picture with on the ground accounts.
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 | Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory by Norman Davies
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.44 Demythologising the war in Europe. Seeing it for what it really was.
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 | Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.19 Absolute literary masterpiece. Fictionalised accounts of real lives of people placed in agonising moral dilemmas.
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 | A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £12.57 / Used from: £9.99 Although not WWII it's indespensable for setting the scene for the drama that is to unfold.
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![The Battle Of Britain (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1969]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A519EH51L._SL75_.jpg) | The Battle Of Britain (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1969]
Buy used from: £9.59 Wonderful boyhood myth. Never tire of watching this. And Ron Goodwin's wonderful score?
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![A Bridge Too Far (2 Disc Special Edition) [1977] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YJKH8FFCL._SL75_.jpg) | A Bridge Too Far (2 Disc Special Edition) [1977] [DVD]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.08 Again, never tire of this one. First film that got me to imagine being under an artillary barage or to run knowingly into a hail of bullets.
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![Downfall (2 Disc Edition) [2005] [DVD] [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513HGB9B2RL._SL75_.jpg) | Downfall (2 Disc Edition) [2005] [DVD] [2004]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.24 One of the greatest films of all time for so many reasons. The last days in Hitler's bunker. The evil. The fallibility. The gullibility. The surreality. The mundanity. The smell.
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![Band Of Brothers - Complete HBO Series commemorative gift set (6 Disc Box Set) [2001] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5154X0SP0ZL._SL75_.jpg) | Band Of Brothers - Complete HBO Series commemorative gift set (6 Disc Box Set) [2001] [DVD]
Buy new: £14.98 / Used from: £13.97 Becoming hackneyed through over-screening yet an oustanding achievement.
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 | Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris Bellamy
Buy used from: £1.50 Detailed acount of the Eastern Front at strategic level. Includes picture of the real Vasily Zaitsev. Don't think Rachel Weisz would have thought much of him.
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