True Stories: Second World War
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Add to BasketAlways At Sea - - Paperback
£16.95
Based on Mary Wardle's father's own account, this book recounts the exploits of William Donald, who went to sea as a boy in 1912 and stayed in the Merchant Navy for almost 50 years. -
Add to BasketBy Yon Bonnie Banks, By Yon Bonnie Braes: A Tayside Childhood - - Paperback
£8.50
Vera Milne writes about life and customs in the post war years in the Tayside area where she was born and bred. -
Add to BasketNazi Gold: The Sensational Story Of The World's Greatest Robbery - And The Greatest Criminal Cover-Up - - Paperback
£7.99
'Nazi Gold' is a real-life story about the theft of the German National Gold which disappeared in transit following the Nazi collapse in 1945. Here the authors discover the truth behind the mystery and cover-up after over 50 years. -
Add to BasketOutrageous Fortune - - Paperback
£16.99
'Outrageous Fortune' provides an account of Bob Maslen-Jones' war-time experiences in Burma and Korea. -
Add to BasketThe Railway Man - - Paperback
£5.99
In 1942 Lomax was caught up in the fall of the British Empire, & tortured by the Japanese. Many years after the war, his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator was still alive - their reconciliation is the culmination of this unusual story. -
Add to BasketShallow Graves In Siberia - - Paperback
£6.99
Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in south-west Poland and was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final vows and joined the army. Krupa survived Hitler's invasion but served ten years in a labour camp before escaping to Afghanistan after an epic journey. Here he tells his remarkable story. -
Add to BasketThe Shetland Bus - - Paperback
£7.99
Dark winters provided the perfect cover for missions to occupied Norway during the Second World War, and the closest base was from Shetland. The 'Shetland Bus' took supplies and saboteurs into the fjords, and refugees into safety on its return. -
Add to BasketSilent Heroes: Ordinary People In Times Of War - Paperback
£8.99
These stories are from ordinary people - silent heroes - who lived through the World Wars burst in on us with an electrifying freshness. They make us consider the many lessons that we might learn from their experiences. -
£20.00Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918 - - Hardback
The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent 20 years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s. -
£16.99Wartime Courage: Stories Of Extraordinary Courage By Ordinary People In World War Two - - Hardback
Following the success of 'Courage', the Prime Minister tells ten stories of the extraordinary courage shown by ordinary men and women in World War II.