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  • Life Between the Lines

    A Memoir

    by John Izbicki ...
    The Daily Telegraph correspondent tells his "fascinating history, not just of newspapers, but of his personal life, fleeing Nazi Germany, as a child" ( The Independent).Berlin-born, John Izbicki lived through the horrors of Nazi persecution and, on the day after his eighth birthday, he witnessed the Kristallnacht, and the smashing of his parents' shop windows. On the day Germany invaded Poland and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Making of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • When the Children Came Home

    Stories of Wartime Evacuees

    by Julie Summers ...
    A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of children evacuated during WWII and the families they left behindOn 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper began to place the children of Britain's industrial cities beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe. 1.5 million children, pregnant women and schoolteachers were evacuated in 3 days. A further 2 million children were evacuated privately; the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • How the Girl Guides Won the War

    by Janie Hampton ...
    A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world – the Girl Guides – and how they helped win the war.The Girl Guides is one of the world's most extraordinary movements: millions of women have been members. But what have the Guides actually achieved, since they began 100 years ago? Do they do more than sell biscuits, sing around campfires, and tie knots? In this ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Secret History of the Blitz

    by Joshua Levine ...
    ‘Rigorously researched, yet reads like a novel you can’t put down’ LUCY WORSLEY‘Joshua Levine is a fantastic and passionate individual. I highly recommend him for the breadth of knowledge he has’ STEVE Mc****QUEENThe Blitz is one of the most iconic and tumultuous periods in modern British history – and one of the most misunderstood.From the first page, readers will discover a different story to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Cruel Crossing

    Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees

    by Edward Stourton ...
    The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep - the more so in the dark and in winter. Even for the fit the journey is a formidable challenge. Hundreds of those who climbed through the Pyrenees during the Second World War were malnourished and exhausted after weeks on the run hiding in barns and attics. Many never even reached the Spanish border.Today their bravery and endurance is ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Hello

    The Autobiography

    by Leslie Phillips, Maureen Lee ...
    The autobiography of true national treasure LESLIE PHILLIPS, an actor who has featured in more British Number One box office smashes than anyone else and was the voice of The Sorting Hat in Harry Potter'A lively book full of amusing anecdotes and insights into the life of a zestfully ambitious actor' SPECTATORLeslie Phillips's story begins with a poverty-stricken childhood in north London, made ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Time Without Shadows

    by Ted Allbeury ...
    When the SS destroyed Special Operations Executive's Scorpio network in Occupied France, only Henri Masson escaped. Then his post-war trial was abruptly halted after a high level British intervention.Forty years later, awkward questions are raised in Westminster and the case has been reopened. The first thing Harry Chapman of MI6 discovers is that all records were destroyed by a senior SIS officer ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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  • Only Remembered

    by Michael Morpurgo ...
    Illustrated by Ian Beck ...
    Published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this beautiful anthology collects favourite extracts, poems and images from some of the UK’s leading cultural, political and literary figures.Poems, short stories, personal letters, newspaper articles, scripts, photographs and paintings are just some of the elements of this astonishing collection, with cover and artwork by ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Mrs Miles's Diary

    The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front

    by Constance Miles ...
    Better times will come again - a fascinating insight into how ordinary people cope in extraordinary circumstances.At the outbreak of the Second World War Constance Miles was living with her husband in the pretty Surrey village of Shere. A prolific correspondent with a keen interest in current affairs, Constance kept a war journal from 1939 to 1943, recording in vivid detail what life was like for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Wartime

    by Juliet Gardiner ...
    Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its inclusion of many under-described aspects of the Home Front, and alongside familiar stories of food shortages, evacuation and the arrival of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Memories of an S.O.E. Historian

    by M. R. D. Foot ...
    The historian of the British World War II intelligence organization chronicles his life and service career in this memoir.Michael (M.R.D.) Foot enjoys the rare distinction of being the only person referred to by his real name in a John Le Carré novel. A highly significant tribute to the man entrusted with writing the official record of the Special Operations Executive. He authored first (1966) the ... Read more

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