Results for: books tagged ‘WWII’
Admirals: Andrew Lambert
Why for centuries was the British Navy the most successful organisation in the world? What does it take to lead such a force?Britain achieved unparalleled global pre-eminence through one critical ... More
Adventures of a Suburban Boy: John Boorman
John Boorman, hailed by the Observer as 'arguably Britain's greatest living director', offers an enthralling memoir of a creative life spent turning dreams into celluloid, and money into light. One ... More
Alamein to Zem Zem: Keith Douglas
A classic war book by one of the finest poets of the Second World War. Keith Douglas was posted to Palestine in 1941 with a cavalry regiment. When fighting broke ... More
The Alexandria Quartet: Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most famous and admired work, one he described ... More
An Artist of the Floating World: Kazuo Ishiguro
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter, Masuji ... More
Atonement: Christopher Hampton
ATONEMENT THE SHOOTING SCRIPT® Screenplay by Christopher Hampton Based on the novel by Ian McEwan Introduction by Christopher Hampton A Newmarket Shooting Script® Series Book 30 Colour photos in a ... More
Blitz: Margaret Gaskin
A quiet Sunday teatime and, in the City of London, clerks and draper's assistants, canteen ladies, caretakers, architects and clerics join firefighters and wardens preparing to protect their 'Square Mile' ... More
Celia's Secret: Michael Frayn and David Burke
One day during the run of Michael Fryan's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which ... More
Churchill's Wizards: Nicholas Rankin
The true story of how the British really won WWII - by hoodwinking Hitler, misleading Mussolini and hoaxing Hirohito. More
Crabwalk: Gunter Grass
In this new novel Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. He explores the sinking of the ... More
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