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  • "I Would Not Step Back..." Phil Lamason

    One of New Zealand’s greatest yet lesser known World War II heroesHis war-time story of leadership and courage endures as an inspirational, timeless and empowering model for people of all ages.The Phil Lamason Heritage Centre Trust is committed to preserving and sharing Phil Lamason’s unique wartime story with a wider audience.The first initiative undertaken by the Trust is the writing and ... Read more

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  • The Great Escape

    A Canadian Story

    by Ted Barris ...
    On the night of March 24, 1944, 80 Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape," an intricate breakout more than a year in the making, involving as many as 2,000 POWs working with extraordinary co-ordination, intelligence, and daring. ... Read more

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  • Churchill's Band of Brothers

    WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals

    by Damien Lewis ...
    **One of WWII’s most daring Allied D-Day missions and the hunt for Hitler’s war criminals is brought to breathtaking life by award-winning, bestselling war reporter Damien Lewis.Award-winning, bestselling author Damien Lewis explores one of WWII’s most remarkable Special Forces missions during the Normany landings on D-Day—and the extraordinary hunt that followed to take down a cadre of fugitive ... Read more

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  • Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

    The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

    by Giles Milton ...
    Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machineIn the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage.The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had ... Read more

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  • The True Story of the Great Escape

    Stalag Luft III, March 1944

    The real history behind the classic war movie and the men who plotted the daring escape from a Nazi POW camp.Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th–25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen. The prison break from Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in the ... Read more

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  • Lancaster Men

    The Aussie heroes of Bomber Command

    by Peter Rees ...
    More than 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who undertook some of the most dangerous operations of World War II. They flew raid after raid over France and Germany knowing that the odds were against them. Stretched to breaking point, nearly 3500 died in the air. Their bravery in extreme circumstances has barely been recognised.Peter Rees traces the ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Rockets

    The Story of the V-2s

    In Hitler’s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation of the rockets. He shows through contemporary documents and protagonists’ accounts how the British ... Read more

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  • Remarkable Journeys of the Second World War

    A Collection of Untold Stories

    Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with veterans following the publication of her grandfather's wartime memoir, Victoria Panton Bacon has gathered a moving collection of their experiences. Their recollections tell of a different time and reveal the courage, actions and sentiments of those whose ... Read more

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  • Churchill's Secret Defence Army

    Resisting the Nazi Invader

    by Arthur Ward ...
    By the spring of 1940, the phoney war suddenly became very real. In April Hitler's forces, invaded Norway and a month later began their assault on France and the Low Countries. The Anglo/French allies were routed. The British escaped to fight another day after evacuating the bulk of their armies at Dunkirk. When on 10 May Winston Churchill became Prime Minister he soon discovered that the nation's ... Read more

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  • Women in the Second World War

    Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women's personal accounts of what their lives were like and what particular experiences they had while serving. They were all ordinary British women, ... Read more

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  • Spies In The Sky

    The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War II

    SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of the photo interpreters who invented a completely new science to analyse those pictures. They were ... Read more

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  • A Salute to One of 'The Few'

    The Life of Flying Officer Peter Cape Beauchamp St John RAF

    A poignant biography of a pilot who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War II.In a quiet churchyard is the grave of an airman who lost his life fighting in the skies over southern England in October 1940. The author happened to come across this grave, and after some initial inquiries discovered that nobody in the town was aware that this Battle of Britain pilot lay at rest in their parish ... Read more

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