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The best-selling author of Dead Wake draws on personal diaries, archival documents and declassified intelligence in a portrait of Winston Churchill that explores his day-to-day experiences during the Blitz and his role in uniting England. Maps.
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Places and Names : On War, Revolution and Returning
by Elliot Ackerman
The decorated Marine and author of the National Book Award finalist, Dark at the Crossing, draws on five tours of duty to assess the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria
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Presidents of War
by Michael R Beschloss
The best-selling author of The Conquerors charts the controversial leadership, public reputations and evolving political powers of American wartime Presidents from the War of 1812 through Vietnam, including Lincoln, Wilson and LBJ
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Aftershock : The Human Toll of War: Haunting World War II Images by America's Soldier Photographers
by Richard Cahan
This is the story of the courageous photographers of the Army Signal Corps and the pictures they took in the last year of the war, 1945. Their work spans the globe, showing grieving Chinese widows in the Phillippines, famished Germans picking apart a horse for its meat, a suspected Nazi collaborator in an Italian town square, a British bicycle lesson for amputees, the wreckage of a Buddhist temple in Burma, and atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Aftershock is a permanent record that shows the legacy of total war in a year like no other in human history.
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A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
by Sonia Purnell
"In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it. Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. Even as her face covered wanted posters and a bounty was placed on her head, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped through a death-defying hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown. But she plunged back in, adamant that she had more lives to save, and led a victorious guerilla campaign, liberating swathes of France from the Nazis after D-Day. Based on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has for the first time uncovered the full secret life of Virginia Hall--an astounding and inspiring story of heroism, spycraft, resistance, and personal triumph over shocking adversity. A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war"
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