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The Winter Campaign in Italy 1943: Orsogna, San Pietro and Ortona by Pier Paolo Battistelli 9781472855695
RRP: £16.99£12.28A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy. After repulsing the German counter-attack at Salerno in September 1943, the US Fifth Army and British Eighth Army advanced up the... -
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings 9780008280567
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second... -
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington
RRP: £12.99£9.09Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.Following in his father's footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner's trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his... -
Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust by Andrew I. Port
RRP: £29.95£23.59Germans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to prevent new genocides abroad?As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a... -
The Turbulent World of Franz Goll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century by Peter Fritzsche 9780674055315
RRP: £56.95£37.02Franz Goell was a thoroughly typical Berliner. He worked as a clerk, sometimes as a postal employee, night watchman, or publisher's assistant. He enjoyed the movies, ate spice cake, wore a fedora, tamed sparrows, and drank beer or schnapps. He lived his... -
Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
RRP: £22.00£16.02Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The TimesDespite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World... -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
RRP: £10.99£7.25A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 'This is a wonderful book. A... -
I Flew for the Fuhrer: The Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot by Heinz Knoke 9781784386023
RRP: £12.99£9.09Heinz Knocke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a best-selling counter-balance to the numerous accounts written by Allied... -
Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £19.99£19.50A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history - from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic - Victor Klemperer is regarded... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
RRP: £18.99£14.01The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by King Charles III.'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' - Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a... -
Fw 190D-9: Defence of the Reich 1944-45 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £13.99£9.75The Fw 190D-9 - the 'long-nosed' Dora - represented the cutting edge and pinnacle of wartime Germany's piston-engine aviation development. This new history by leading German aviation specialist Robert Forsyth reveals what it was like to pilot her in... -
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings
RRP: £25.00£16.83THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Moehne and Eder dams in... -
Defiant: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Robert Verkaik makes a revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant. This two-seat gun-turret fighter is, argues Verkaik, the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its... -
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War by Giles Milton
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Aichele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But by the time war came, for civilians on all sides, there was nowhere left to hide.The conflict took... -
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: £13.99£12.25A chilling biography of the head of Nazi Germany's terror apparatus, Reinhard Heydrich-a key player in the Third Reich whose full story has never before been told"Gerwarth dispassionately examines Heydrich's rise and assassination, which resulted in a... -
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections by Jenny Erpenbeck
RRP: £9.99£6.91Not a Novel is the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Moving and insightful, the pieces range from personal essays and literary criticism to reflections on Germany's history, interrogating life and politics, language and freedom, hope and despair. By... -
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil
RRP: £30.00£21.35'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Fresh and compelling ... a tour-de-force' David A. BellLess than a month after it marched into... -
Renaissance in the North: Holbein, Burgkmair, and the Age of the Fuggers by Guido Messling 9783777442037
RRP: £52.00£35.99Illustrious turning point - Augsburg as the centre of the German Renaissance. Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Burgkmair are regarded alongside Albrecht Durer as the forerunners of Renaissance painting in Germany. The prosperous Imperial and trading... -
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War by Giles Milton 9781529393170
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with... -
German Heavy Cruisers vs Royal Navy Heavy Cruisers: 1939-42 by Mark Lardas
RRP: £13.99£9.75This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at the beginning of World War II. The opposing heavy cruisers of the German Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy engaged in a global game of cat and mouse during... -
Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw
RRP: £20.00£14.69'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' The Times The British evacuation from the beaches of the... -
The Book of Lieder by Richard Stokes 9780571224395
RRP: £40.00£27.68This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of... -
The Waffen-Ss in Normandy: July 1944, Operations Goodwood and Cobra by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006413
RRP: £19.99£12.86One of the greatest paradoxes of the Battle of Normandy is that the German divisions found it much harder to reach the front line than the Allies, who had to cross the sea and then deploy in a cramped bridgehead until the American breakthrough of late... -
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
RRP: £12.99£9.09'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis'In this... -
Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War by Dermot Turing 9781803991696
RRP: £22.00£16.09Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in the Second World War: the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technology. Except that excellence in codebreaking was nearly betrayed by incompetence in codemaking.German... -
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition by Eric D. Weitz
RRP: £22.00£17.39The definitive history of Weimar politics, culture, and societyA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA Financial Times Best Book of the YearThoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era... -
The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship by Ernst Fraenkel 9780198716204
£40.09The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship. It was the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and nature of National Socialism and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's... -
A Short History of the Weimar Republic by Colin Storer
£16.41It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government,... -
Operation Bagration: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group Center, 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: £19.99£12.86Bagration was the code word that the Soviet Army gave for their summer offensive in 1944. This massive offensive led to the destruction of the German Army Group Center and was the greatest military defeat ever experienced by the German Army during World... -
Heimat: A German Family Album by Nora Krug
RRP: £22.00£16.80The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home Winner of Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the YearWinner of Book Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards Winner of the... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Germany, 1871-1990: united, divided and reunited by Alan Farmer
RRP: £10.50£9.62Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees
RRP: £14.99£7.11Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period, acclaimed... -
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness by Sinclair McKay
RRP: £12.99£6.45A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year'Powerful . . . there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city. I have never seen it better described' Max... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39 by John Wright
£23.02Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: Living under Nazi Rule 1933-1945 by Richard Kennett
£21.93Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570270
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities...Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of... -
WJEC GCSE History Germany in Transition, 1919-1939 and the USA: A Nation of Contrasts, 1910-1929 by R. Paul Evans
£25.21Exam Board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Endorsed by WJECHelp every student to develop the in-depth knowledge and historical skills they need to achieve their best with the market-leading series for... -
Hitler's Tyranny: A History in Ten Chapters by Ralf Georg Reuth
RRP: £20.00£13.74Hitler's tyranny is still difficult to understand today. In this book, Ralf Georg Reuth examines ten aspects of this catastrophe. Among other things, he asks: Was anti-Semitism more pronounced in Germany than elsewhere? Was Versailles responsible for... -
1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup by Mark Jones
RRP: £25.00£16.78A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent' Richard Evans'A vivid, crisp, impressively sustained narrative' Financial Times'Riveting' Irish Independent'Refreshing and readable' Irish Times 'Gripping . . . thoroughly researched and beautifully...