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Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics) by George Orwell 9780008442743
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before the outbreak of World War... -
Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as 'Schindler's List' by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £12.99£4.11***Winner of the Booker Prize***'ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS' Spectator'Extraordinary' Graham Greene 'Powerful' The Times 'Marvellous' Sunday TimesThe acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, adapted into the award-winning film... -
Popski's Private Army by Vladimir Peniakoff
RRP: £12.99£8.18In October 1942, with the sanction of the army, Vladimir Peniakoff (nicknamed Popski) formed his own elite fighting force. By befriending and enlisting desert Arabs, he was able to penetrate deep into German territory without being detected - over the... -
Shockwave by Stephen Walker
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped... -
A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War by Adam Makos
RRP: £12.99£8.56This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend.Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime... -
Facing Armageddon: With the RAF on Christmas Island 1961–1962 by Chas Hall 9781911667889
RRP: £20.00£17.62After being called up for National Service in July 1960, twenty-year-old Chas Hall joined the RAF and signed on to extend his time for an extra three years becoming a regular serviceman. Following initial training, he became a wireless operator and... -
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes
RRP: £12.99£8.48Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical analysis. ... -
This Boy by Alan Johnson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The best memoir by a politician you will ever read' Philip Collins, The TimesSchool on the Kings Road, Chelsea in the Swinging 60s, the rock-and-roll years, the race riots; this boy has seen it all. ________Alan Johnson's childhoodwas not so much... -
The Nemesis File by Paul Bruce 9781843582731
RRP: £9.99£6.65Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. His top secret mission was to execute IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his SAS comrades shot down one terrified... -
Churchill and the Navy: The Wartime Leader and the Battles at Sea by Richard Hough
RRP: £10.99£7.00Soldier by instinct, sailor by fate... The relationship that defined a career - and saved a nationThe Navy almost finished the career of Britain's greatest wartime leader. As a young minister responsible for the senior service from 1911, Churchill... -
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada by Don Hollway
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The Last Viking reads like the sagas on which it is based. It's Beowulf on steroids, laced with purple prose...This book is great fun. '- Gerard DeGroot, The Times Harald Sigurdsson burst into history as a teenaged youth in a Viking battle from which... -
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
RRP: £10.99£7.05THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF SHAFAK'A taut and finely crafted factual thriller'... -
Ellen Wilkinson: From Red Suffragist to Government Minister by Paula Bartley
RRP: £16.99£13.80Ellen Wilkinson was a key radical figure in the 20th century British socialist and feminist movement, a woman of passionate energy who was involved in most of the major struggles of her time. Born in October 1891 into a working-class textile family,... -
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
RRP: £22.00£16.02'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Yet despite initial triumphs in the early stages of war, the Fuhrer's fortunes... -
Bolts from the Blue: From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff by Sir Richard Johns
RRP: £14.99£10.95Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft. For the next nine years, apart from a short intermission as an ADC, he served as... -
Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall by Spike Milligan
RRP: £9.99£7.67VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times ______________ A... -
Anna Komnene and the Alexiad: The Byzantine Princess and the First Crusade by Ioulia Kolovou 9781526733016
RRP: £25.00£18.02Anna Komnene is one of the most curious ?gures in the history of an intriguing empire. A woman of extraordinary education and intellect, she was the only Byzantine female historian and one of the ?rst and foremost historians in medieval Europe. Yet few... -
SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.05Meet the unit that posed as Nazi stormtroopers in the most daring mission ever undertaken SAS Ghost Patrol is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war... -
Against the Tide by Noel Browne
RRP: £17.99£12.95Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noel Browne experienced at... -
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £14.99£9.70A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of... -
Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe by William R. Hogan 9780063272026
RRP: £25.00£16.43A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father's tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany-against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on... -
A Spy Called Cynthia by Anonymous Anonymous 9781785907128
RRP: £12.99£9.02Elizabeth Thorpe, codenamed Cynthia, was a glamorous American socialite recruited by MI6 to obtain intelligence from the Polish Foreign Ministry and from the Italian and Vichy French embassies in Washington. Her method was to seduce whatever targets... -
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£9.53A lucid, gripping account of the human side of one of the bloodiest chapters of British history. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton,... -
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero by Sir Tommy MacPherson
RRP: £10.99£7.77With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's... -
Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards
RRP: £9.99£7.11Arguably the greatest of all published memoirs of the Great War, Old Soldiers Never Die is Private Frank Richards' classic account of the war from the standpoint of the regular soldier, and a moving tribute to the army that died on the Western Front in... -
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
RRP: £8.99£7.00A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with RosieLaurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy,... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 9780241984482
RRP: £9.99£7.11Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his... -
Stalag Luft III Breakout: The Men of the Great Escape by Jonathan Vance 9781784384388
RRP: £9.99£7.11It shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harms way during World War II, something emphasised by the population of Stalag Luft III. Most of the Allied POWs were flyers, with all the technical, tactical and planning skills that profession... -
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Patrick O’Brian 9780008355999
RRP: £9.99£6.64Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like,... -
Gorbachev: The Man and His Era by Prof. William Taubman 9781471147951
RRP: £16.99£11.08SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022.'A phenomenally researched... -
The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister: A Ukrainian Story by Olesya Khromeychuk 9781800961203
RRP: £10.99£7.05WITH A FOREWORD BY PHILIPPE SANDS AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV'If you read only one book about the war, this is the one to read.' -Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm'Unforgettable. An immediate history of a cruel war and a personal chronicle of... -
Bugles and a Tiger: My life in the Gurkhas by John Masters
RRP: £9.99£6.48The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWIIJohn Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th... -
Born For War: One SAS Trooper's Incredible Story of the Falklands by Tony Hoare
RRP: £16.99£10.45'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabThe full, explosive, boots-on-the-ground story of the Falklands War, from a soldier at the heart of the action, published for the 40th anniversary of the conflict. Tony Hoare always knew he wanted to be in the SAS.Both... -
An Officer and a Gentlewoman: The Making of a Female British Army Officer by Heloise Goodley
RRP: £10.99£7.05When Heloise Goodley ditched her City job and decided to attend officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she had no prior military experience. On her arrival she was a complete novice: she'd never fired a rifle, she couldn't march; she... -
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin 9781804993194
RRP: £10.99£7.77Brought to you by Penguin.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were... -
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier by Earl Charles Spencer
RRP: £12.99£8.58King Charles's Pirate PrinceTo his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier'. Young, handsome, expert horseman, crack pistol shot, his swaggering style irritated the stuffier of the king's... -
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy by Kim Philby
RRP: £10.99£7.77In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head... -
The Fighting Captain by Alan Burn
RRP: £15.99£11.61Captain F J Walker, RN, did more than any other man at sea to win the Battle of the Atlantic, a vicious and unrelenting struggle which Churchill described as the dominating factor throughout World War Two. He was a formidable figure and one of the... -
Heroes: The Greatest Generation and the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: £12.99£8.48'Heroes' is the story of an extraordinary generation of young men, mostly British, who came of age in the Second World War. These young men - and women - found themselves facing life-threatening danger and the kind of responsibility few would be prepared... -
Lust For Life by Irving Stone
RRP: £11.99£8.43Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. "Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world... He was a colossus... a...