![]() | The Berlin Diaries, 1940-45 by Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £4.95 How to survive carpet bombing and escape being chased by the Gestapo for implication in the Von Stauffenberg complot
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![]() | A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Buy used from: £5.97 How to survive a women-thirsty invading army
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![]() | Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth by Norman Lewis
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £3.37 A sharp witness of life just after Mussolini
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![]() | Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Colonial Africa and surviving the invasion of Greece as a fighter pilot
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![]() | The Six Mountain Travel Books by Eric Shipton
Buy new: £18.04 / Used from: £19.00 Blank on the Map and Mountains of Tartary, included in this book show a climber's view. Peace on Earth.
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![]() | Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy used from: £5.86 Shocking for the 21st centrury that there were Europeans happily volunteering for misery and death just for reason of their ideals
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![]() | The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Buy used from: £4.98 People stressed much beyond the limit to supply the war. Grave for ideals and chivalry, the sea the common enemy
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![]() | Another Place, Another Time: A U-Boat Officer's Wartime Album by Werner Hirschmann
Buy used from: £69.95 The story of The Cruel Sea from the other side as remembered many years later by an U-boat officer which became a Canadian citizen
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![]() | A Midshipman's War: A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War, 1941-1943 by Frank Wade
Buy new: £11.74 / Used from: £31.58 A young guy witnessing major events and giving a fresh look into them many years later
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![]() | The Gulag Archipelago [Abridged] (Harvill Press Editions) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £10.68 / Used from: £8.99 I could not finish it, I had nightmares about it but the author could not get rid of them. "the line between good and evil is inside every person"
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![]() | Winds of adventure by Hans de Meiss-Teuffen
Buy used from: £3.75 A neutral living an extraordinary life while everybody has become crazy
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![]() | Schwimmer in der Wüste.: Auf der Suche nach der Oase Zarzura by Ladislaus E. Almasy
Buy new: £6.87 / Used from: £3.86 The real "english patient" was a rather enigmatic character, the book is somewaht boring at the beginning but in hindsight it simply follows the pace of the desert. Avalaible also in Spanish
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![]() | African Trilogy: The North African Campaign, 1940-43 by Alan Moorehead
Buy used from: £0.65 Written right on the spot. Very interesting mostly about the colonial beginnings of the war in Africa
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![]() | The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Buy new: £9.45 / Used from: £2.02 Life aboard a US destroyer. Quite interesting if you compare with British and Germans and of course with an interesting plot
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![]() | Destroyer Captain by Roger Hill
Buy new: £15.19 An atypical British navy officer, I guess, "more a pirate than an officer" but an extraordinary man, not hiding anything
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![]() | Nada by Carmen Laforet
Buy used from: £4.94 The feelings of a university girl in Barcelona just after the Spanish war. Nothing "nada" really happens, but still this book is impressive
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![]() | The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.06 This one really is not related to WWII nor to the 30's and 40's, but it was written in Italy in 1940. And waited, and waited, and waited...
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