Publication date: 2007-01-18
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.12
Review Achtung Schweinehund: A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat / Little, Brown:
Edition: American
Publication date: 2008-03-10
Dewey code: 949.703
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.00
Review HUNTING THE TIGER: The Fast Life and Violent Death of the Balkans' Most Dangerous Man / Thomas Dunne Books:
Creator: Bernard Cornwell
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1996-10-01
Price: £7.99
Review A Dorset Rifleman: The Recollections of Benjamin Harris / Shinglepicker Publications:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-07-15
Dewey code: 940.544941092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.37
Review Bomber Harris: His Life and Times / Greenhill Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1996-10
Dewey code: 355.0092
RRP: £11.73
Price: £3.76
Review Patton: Genius for War, a / Harper Perennial:
Authors
- Gordon Bennett, Jr. Robertson
Publication date: 2007-01-10
Dewey code: 940.544973
RRP: £12.50
Price: £4.48
Review Bringing the Thunder: The Missions of a World War II B-29 Pilot in the Pacific (Stackpole Military History): The Missions of a World War II B-29 Pilot in the Pacific (Stackpole Military History) / Stackpole Books,U.S.:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-02-01
Dewey code: 959.7043092
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.76
Review Medic!: The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam War / Presidio Press:
Publication date: 2007-04-18
RRP: £9.00
Price: £4.38
Review Warbird Recovery: The Hunt for a Rare World War II Plane in Siberia, Russia / Harlem Writers Guild Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1994-07-01
Price: £5.99
Review Team Yankee / Pocket Books:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-10-01
Dewey code: 364.151092
RRP: £16.95
Price: £12.80
Review The Execution of the Hangman of Riga: The Only Execution of a Nazi War Criminal by the Mossad / Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2002-09-19
Dewey code: 940.544973092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.61
Review The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle / ROC (imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc):
Authors
- Richard Leigh
- Michael Baigent
Dewey code: 943.0864092
RRP: £8.35
Price: £5.24
Review Secret Germany: Stauffenberg and the True Story of Operation Valkyrie / Skyhorse Publishing:
Creator: Chris Anderson
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.34
Review The Billy Boy: The Life and Death of LVF Leader Billy Wright / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-02-02
Dewey code: 943.1550864092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.86
Review The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany / Vintage:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1990-09
RRP: £9.99
Price: £10.01
Review Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Twentieth Century Classics) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2005-10-01
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.11
Review Private 12768: Memoir of a Tommy / NPI Media Group:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-03-04
Dewey code: 320.922
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.34
Review Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership / Phoenix:To what extent did the outcome of the Second World War turn on the two very different personalities who led the two major combatant nations? This intriguing question is the subject of Andrew Roberts' Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, published to tie in with the television series of the same name. Roberts, the author of the prize-winning Salisbury: Victorian Titan and, more recently, the highly acclaimed Napoleon and Wellington, sets out to identify the ingredients of successful leadership in peacetime and wartime. The first half of the book takes us through the lives of the two men up to 1939, showing how both men had a strong sense of destiny and mission-indeed both put out a sort of mission statement (Churchill in his 1900 novel Savrola; Hitler in his Mein Kampf). Both men also had compelling powers of oratory and a carefully contrived political persona built around props (Churchill's cigar and homburg hat, Hitler's plain uniform), hideaway homes (Chartwell and the Berghof) and careful public relations. The second half of the book brings out their major differences during the war. Inevitably, Churchill's people-management skills and ability to listen to advice won out over Hitler's control-freakery and over-reliance on sycophants. This is not one of Andrew Roberts' better books. It is not a particularly sophisticated analysis of the dynamics of leadership, and the story of the clash of these two titans has been told so often-most recently by John Lukacs-that there is not a lot more to be added. Roberts does provide some new information on Churchill's use of secret intelligence, but otherwise this is familiar fare-a tale certainly worth being told again, but perhaps not deserving the great puff on the dust jacket. -Miles Taylor.
Creator: R.H. Stevens
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1988-02-01
Dewey code: 943.086
RRP: £7.95
Price: £81.95
Review Hitler's Table Talk: His Private Conversations, 1941-44 / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2004-05-17
Dewey code: 324
RRP: £25.00
Price: £7.99
Review The Guardsmen / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-02-22
Dewey code: 941.084092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.09
Review From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45 / The History Press Ltd:
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