Creator: Philip Boehm
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2006-07-11
Dewey code: 920
Price: £8.03
Review A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary / Picador USA:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-02-01
Dewey code: 940.534384
RRP: £6.95
Price: £1.65
Review Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter / Yale University Press:
Creator: Roman Vishniac
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1986-05
Dewey code: 892.4933
RRP: £5.00
Price: £1.62
Review A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw / Farrar Straus Giroux:
Edition: Bantam Paperback Ed
Publication date: 1920-01-01
Dewey code: 355.0092
RRP: £7.95
Price: £2.12
Review It Doesn't Take a Hero / Bantam USA:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1996-10-01
Dewey code: 327.120904
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.87
Review Espionage: The Greatest Spy Operations of the Twentieth Century / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 1991-08-09
Price: £4.99
Review One of the Originals: Story of a Former Member of the S.A.S. / Pan Books:
Edition: 1st Naval Institute Press Pbk
Publication date: 2008-03-15
Dewey code: 940.545973092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.11
Review Nimitz / Naval Institute Press:
Edition: Bantam Paperback Ed
Publication date: 1920-01-01
Dewey code: 355.0092
RRP: £7.95
Price: £2.12
Review It Doesn't Take a Hero / Bantam USA:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-05-02
Dewey code: 355
Price: £7.99
Review Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive / BBC Books:Published to coincide with the accompanying BBC television series, this is the fascinating, hair-raising, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tragic account of the brave men and women who went behind the lines in Nazi-occupied territory, with a mission to, in Churchill's words, "set Europe ablaze". The scale of their operations was always limited by lack of funds, military hardware, and, most unbelievably of all, by the continual sniping that the SOE suffered from jealous rival special forces, and the sneering suits in Whitehall. Despite such difficulties, however, their range of operations was impressive: from Gorgopotamos in Greece to Bergen in Norway they did indeed do their very best to set Europe ablaze, with what few resources they had, and faced certain torture and death if they were caught. Their greatest impact was in the Balkans, supporting Tito and his partisans against the Germans, but here, as ever in the Balkans, things were always complicated by ethnic rivalries and atrocious massacres of civilians. In the end, though, the greatest value of the SOE was to boost public morale back home, and it did that superbly. David Stafford's account is excellent, the only reservation being that it leaves one wanting more detail and more characterisation about specific missions. One doesn't often get a sense of being there on the front line but, as an introduction to the subject, this is very satisfactory. -Christopher Hart.
Creator: J.C. Coulston
Edition: Westholme Ed
Publication date: 2006-02-01
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.18
Review Belisarius: The Last Great General of the Roman Empire / Westholme Publishing, U.S.:
Publication date: 1991-08-09
Price: £4.99
Review One of the Originals: Story of a Former Member of the S.A.S. / Pan Books:
Authors
- Malcolm McConnell
- Paul Bremer
Dewey code: 956.704431
Price: £18.99
Review My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 020.92
RRP: £8.57
Price: £2.84
Review The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq / Harcourt:
Authors
- Evelyn Julia Kent
- Eva Schloss
Publication date: 1999-10-01
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £6.50
Price: £2.47
Review Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank: Survivor's Tale by the Step-sister of Anne Frank / Castle-Kent:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-05-02
Dewey code: 355
Price: £7.99
Review Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive / BBC Books:Published to coincide with the accompanying BBC television series, this is the fascinating, hair-raising, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tragic account of the brave men and women who went behind the lines in Nazi-occupied territory, with a mission to, in Churchill's words, "set Europe ablaze". The scale of their operations was always limited by lack of funds, military hardware, and, most unbelievably of all, by the continual sniping that the SOE suffered from jealous rival special forces, and the sneering suits in Whitehall. Despite such difficulties, however, their range of operations was impressive: from Gorgopotamos in Greece to Bergen in Norway they did indeed do their very best to set Europe ablaze, with what few resources they had, and faced certain torture and death if they were caught. Their greatest impact was in the Balkans, supporting Tito and his partisans against the Germans, but here, as ever in the Balkans, things were always complicated by ethnic rivalries and atrocious massacres of civilians. In the end, though, the greatest value of the SOE was to boost public morale back home, and it did that superbly. David Stafford's account is excellent, the only reservation being that it leaves one wanting more detail and more characterisation about specific missions. One doesn't often get a sense of being there on the front line but, as an introduction to the subject, this is very satisfactory. -Christopher Hart.
Creator: Will Davies
Publication date: 2008-10-09
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.99
Review Somme Mud / Bantam Books:
Publication date: 2004-05-20
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.80
Review Child Soldier / Souvenir Press Ltd:
Creator: Andrew Pollinger
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
Publication date: 1996-03-01
Dewey code: 364.151092
RRP: £18.95
Price: £6.38
Review Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz / Da Capo Press Inc:
Authors
- Paul Bremer
- Malcolm McConnell
Dewey code: 956.704431
Price: £18.99
Review My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Publication date: 1993-02-25
RRP: £20.00
Price: £42.95
Review Official And Confidential: The Secret Life of J.Edgar Hoover / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
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