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£20.00From the bestselling Ukrainian cookery writer comes a profound meditation on the hopes and fears across generations amid political upheaval
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Operation Pimento
£22.00On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart’s great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE ‘Special Duties’ airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret midnight mission codenamed Operation Pimento, but they were shot down near Annecy in southeast France. Only Frank survived. Though seriously injured, Frank felt it was his duty to get back to England to continue the fight against the Nazis. He embarked on a perilous, 1200-mile, 108-day escape across Europe, via the attic of a brothel, a Frenchwoman’s chimney and a Spanish prison cell. 79 years later, Frank’s 22-year-old great-grandson Adam Hart retraced the epic escape through France, Switzerland and Spain. His emotional encounters with descendants of people who’d risked their lives to help his great-grandfather reveal the enduring legacy of Operation Pimento and how we should never forget their sacrifice.
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Sword
£25.00On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years.
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Sky warriors
£10.99THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War.
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Blitz kids
£9.99In 1939 there were more than ten million children living in Britain. Their childhoods were about to beshattered by events they could neither control nor comprehend. The Second World War not only tore two million children away from their homes as evacuees, it also called on boy scouts and girl guides to risk their lives as air-raid messengers and fire watchers. It made sleeping in air raid shelters and never having enough food or clothes part of everyday life. Worse, it made hundreds of thousands of families homeless and took the lives of mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles and grandparents – as well as children themselves. But amidst the turmoil and tears, the war also brought excitement and opportunity.
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The accidental soldier
£22.00Owain Mulligan was never what you’d call a career soldier. Nor even a particularly good one. At weekends he trained with the Territorial Army and dreamt of swapping the mayhem of teaching in a tough school for the adventure of service in Iraq. At least they’d let him wear a helmet in Iraq. But when the job in headquarters he’s been expecting doesn’t materialise, he finds himself on the streets of Basra during one of the most violent periods of the conflict. Between homicidal militias, a chain of command who seem determined to get him killed, and equipment which might well do it for them, he and his men have their work cut out. It certainly puts double geography with 9E into perspective. ‘The Accidental Soldier’ is a searingly honest and darkly funny account of what it was really like being in the British Army in Iraq (including all the bits they probably hoped you’d never find out).
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Looking at women, looking at war
£20.00WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD
‘This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman’s heroism’ Philippa Gregory
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Genocide in Gaza
£18.00Avi Shlaim places Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip under an uncompromising lens.
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November 1942
£12.99An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, as experienced by the people who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.
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Ukraine, remember also me
£20.00While reporting on the war in Ukraine, George Butler has created striking and intimate illustrations to introduce us to the people behind the headlines. His drawings, made in a variety of places, from missile-scarred streets to nursing homes, vividly capture stories of family, tragedy and perseverance. These powerful portraits of war and conflict are a timely reminder of the humanity we all share and our universal need for peace.