Europe at War Books
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A Village in the Third Reich : How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism
by Julia Boyd (Author) & Angelika Patel (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 464 pagesPublisher: Elliott & Thompson LimitedImprint: Elliott & Thompson LimitedISBN: 9781783966639Published: 6 Oct 2022Classifications: HistoryReadership: General (US: Trade)Weight: 444gDimensions: 129 x 199 x 37 (mm) Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the...- £10.99
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Homage to Catalonia
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage...- £8.99
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If This Is A Man/The Truce
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was...- £12.99
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Looking for Trouble : 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)
This groundbreaking 1941 memoir by a trailblazing female war correspondent offers an unparalleled eyewitness account of life on the frontlines of wartime Europe, hailed as an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb. Virginia Cowles was present at pivotal moments, from Paris...- £12.99
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Naples 1944 : War, Liberation and Chaos
The Second World War left countless cities in Europe and Asia in ruins. Naples 1944 chronicles the story of the first major European city liberated by the Allied forces. The book delves into not only the devastation that befell Naples during the scourge of...- £25.00
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Paris '44 : The Shame and the Glory
Patrick Bishop's latest masterpiece, "Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory," is an instant Sunday Times bestseller that has been hailed as "extraordinary" by Dominic Sandbrook of the Sunday Times. Described as an "epic thriller" by the Observer, the book is "droll, moving, with...- £25.00
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Russia : Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
A masterpiece of history'DAILY TELEGRAPHBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists...- £10.99
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The Guns of August : The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War
Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war. War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . . Barbara Tuchman's...- £12.99
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The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way
Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month'A formidable achievement' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator'A noble endeavour' New StatesmanWithout a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Anthony Seldon set out on...- £10.99
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The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914
The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher ClarkFINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012Winner of the Los Angeles Times History Book Prize...- £18.99
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The Unwomanly Face of War
A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"Why,...- £9.99
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The Writers' Castle : Reporting History at Nuremberg
A captivating new perspective on the Nuremberg Trials, narrated through the stories of the esteemed writers who bore witness to the proceedings Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals commence, some of the world's most renowned writers and journalists converge in the...- £25.00
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future : Writers, Rebels and the Spanish Civil War
In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance. 'Glorious... so beautifully rendered, so powerful'ANNA FUNDER, author of WifedomIn the 1930s, women and men from across the...- £12.99
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Vertigo : The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons for the world now.' - John...- £25.00
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Where Poppies Blow : The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.'During the Great War, soldiers lived inside the ground, closer to...- £9.99
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