Remarkable women of the second world war
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Remarkable Women of the Second World War
Capturing the stories of ordinary women doing extraordinary things through the turbulent years of the Second World War
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Remarkable Journeys of the Second World War
Capturing the stories of ordinary human beings who lived through extraordinary times
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Women in the Second World War
Commemorates the role of service and serving women in the Second World War.
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Women of the Home Front
A pictorial celebration of the women's services of the Second World War
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Women Behind the Few
The Women Behind the Few explores the Second World War from the perspective of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force members working behind the scenes to co
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The Princess Spy : The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones - Loftis Larry
Anotace: The international bestselling author of the "exciting, suspenseful, inspirational" (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Code Name: Lise weaves another exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS`s most daring spies in World War II before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman ...
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Creating the PeopleÂ’s War
Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and locali
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Women Who Spied for Britain
Meet some of the women whose bravery saved Britain in the Second World War
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Secrets of the Chocolate Girls
A gritty new Second World War saga from Sunday Times bestselling author Annie Murray, following the lives of the women and girls who worked at the Cad
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Library for the War-Wounded - Monika Helferová
Anotace: The second volume in Monika Helfer's internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on the history of her own family. 'We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa. That's what he wanted. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the modern age. Though he seemed to come from nowhe...
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Lumberjills
The first book to fully recognise and tell the tale of the efforts of the Lumberjills - the Women's Timber Corps - during the Second World War
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Library for the War-Wounded - Monika Helferová
From Monika Helfer s award-winning, internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on her own family. Translated into English for the first time. We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa.That s what he wanted. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the modern age.Though he seemed to come from nowher...
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Faces of the Home Front, 1939-1945
Remarkable collections of many previously unpublished original photographs of people and events during the Second World War.
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
Reveals one of the most remarkable but unreported facts of the Second World War: that key Wall Street banks and American businesses supported Hitler's
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Little Women (Oxford World´s Classics New Edition) - Alcottová Louisa May
Anotace: Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories. Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after daughters in the absence of her husband, who is serving as an army chaplain in the Civil War, and Meg, Jo,Beth, and Amy experience domestic...
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Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (1509873147)
Kniha - autor Natalie Haynes, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Hom...
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East of West, West of East
This extraordinary book tells the story of a remarkable family caught in Japan at the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific.
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz - Lucy Adlington
<p>The powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were ...
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Stranger in the House
A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of women welcoming home their menfolk from the Second World War
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Game of Birds and Wolves
A gripping tale of war at sea about how a game of battleships, and a group of exceptional young women, won the Second World War.
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The Black Angels. The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis - Maria Smilios
<p>New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery.During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 people, white nurses at ...
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Sweet Caress - The Many Lives of Amory Clay - Boyd William
Anotace: THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand - but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photogra...
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Sweet Caress - The Many Lives of Amory Clay - William Boyd
<p>THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand – but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photographing ...
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The Courtship of Eva Eldridge : A Story of Bigamy in the Marriage-Mad Fifties - Simmonsová Diane
Anotace: Everyone Got marrIed In the 1950s, then moved to the suburbs to have the children of the soon-to-be-famous baby boom. For Americans who had survived the Great Depression and World War II, prosperous married life was a triumph. The unwed were objects of pity, scorn, even suspicion. And so in the 1950s, Eva Eldridge, no longer so young and marginally employed, was...
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A Year of Last Things: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient - Ondaatje Michael
Anotace: With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery`My life always stops for a new book by him` JHUMPA LAHIRI, author of The Namesake`Timeless... Remarkable, incomparable` TERRANCE HAYES, author of So to SpeakBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a c...
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A Year of Last Things: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
<p>With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery'My life always stops for a new book by him' JHUMPA LAHIRI, author of The Namesake'Timeless... Remarkable, incomparable' TERRANCE HAYES, author of So to SpeakBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a ch...
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The Magic Lantern : The Revolution of ´89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague - Timothy Garton Ash
<p>The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw, on 4 June, when the communist government was humiliated by Solidarity in the first semi-free elections since t...
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The Magic Lantern : The Revolution of ´89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague - Garton Ash Timothy
Anotace: The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw, on 4 June, when the communist government was humiliated by Solidarity in the first semi-free elections since th...
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The Magic Lantern : The Revolution of ´89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague - Timothy Garton Ash
<p>The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw, on 4 June, when the communist government was humiliated by Solidarity in the first semi-free elections since t...
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Jewels of Aptor
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip the book over to read the second title), here's the thirtieth Wildside Double: THE JEWELS OF APTOR: A SCIENCE FANTASY NOVEL, by Samuel R. Delany. What was the strange impetus that drove a group of four widely different humans to embark on a fear-filled journey across a forbidden sea to a legendary land? This was Earth still, b...
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The Savage Storm
'[A] captivating and dramatic account. . . Drawn from letters and diaries, Holland’s immersive narrative is told through the eye-level perspectives of dozens of subjects. Readers will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly‘Tells the story of the hard, bloody, muddy fighting that filled the rest of 1943… this excellent book reinforces Holland’s reputation as the busiest and most...
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The Witch's Kind (0356512568)
Kniha - autor Louisa Morgan, 480 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná An absorbing tale of love, sacrifice, family ties, and magic, set in the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of World War II, by the author of A Secret History of Witches. Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find...
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5´s Secret Nazi Hunter - Hutton Robert
Anotace: June 1940. Britain is Europe`s final bastion of freedom - and Hitler`s next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World War, Britain`s defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped wit...
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5´s Secret Nazi Hunter - Robert Hutton
<p>June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World War, Britain's defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped with...
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Sapiens: A Graphic History / The Pillars of Civilisation (Volume 2) - Yuval Noah Harari
<p>Discover the second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon.When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in return?In The Pillars of Civilization, Yuval Noah Harari and his...
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de Havilland Mosquito
The inside pilot's story of one of the most remarkable aircraft of the Second World War
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The Enigma Girls - Fleming Candace
Anotace: Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative nonfiction aimed at middle-grade and young adult readers. These books help readers learn about the world in which they live and develop their critical thinking skills so that they may become dynamic citizens who are able to analyze and...
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The Jane Austen Society - Jenner Natalie
Anotace: Only a few months after the end of the Second World War, a new battle is beginning in the little village of Chawton. Once the final home of Jane Austen, the Chawton estate is dwindling, and the last piece of Austen`s heritage is at risk of being sold to the highest bidder...Drawn together by their love of her novels, eight very different people - from a local fa...
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Sisters In Arms
The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.
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Operation Sealion
One of Britain's most remarkable victories of the Second World War.
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Game of Thrones:A Clash of Kings 2 - Martin George R. R.
Anotace: THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever experienced. A CLASH OF KING...
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The Choice, 1. vydání - Edith Eva Egerová
THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERby Edith Eger, as seen on BBC BreakfastEven in hell, hope can flower'I'll be forever changed by her story' - Oprah Winfrey 'One of those rare and eternal stories you don't want to end' - Desmond Tutu'A masterpiece of holocaust literature. Her memoir, like her life, is extraordinary, harrowing and inspiring in equal measure' – The ...
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Secret Alliances
Secret Alliances is an authoritative new perspective on some of the most remarkable exploits of the Second World War.
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Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying
A remarkable, controversial book about Germany's soldiers in the Second World War drawn from transcriptions of their secretly recorded conversations
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Murder Maps USA
A compendium of killing that plots the most remarkable American homicides between the Civil War and Second World War onto maps and plans, alongside cr
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Mosquito Men
The story of one of the most remarkable – and feared – British aircraft of the Second World War: the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito fighter-bomber.
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Avenging Angels
The fascinating story of the young women who served as Soviet snipers during the Second World War
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Villa Air-Bel
The remarkable true story of some of Europe's greatest artists, the house that sheltered them during the Second World War, and the Emergency Rescue Co
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For King and Kaiser
A second remarkable work on the German armies of the First World War as seen through the experience of Saxon soldiers. Graphic insight into the though
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Barbarossa
Barbarossa is the story of the battle for the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the ex
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Barbarossa
Barbarossa is the story of the battle for the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the ex
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P-51 Mustang
One of the foremost fighter aircraft of the Second World War. This highly readable and informed book is an essential briefing on a remarkable aircraft
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Singled Out
Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helpe
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Violets
A moving, lyrical debut novel of motherhood, loss and the interconnected lives of two women during the dying days of the Second World War.
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SOE
The SOE (Special Operations Executive) was one of the most innovative British creations of the Second World War. This book looks at the men and women
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Les Parisiennes
For readers of Suite Francaise and Paris Echo, Les Parisiennes recounts the true stories of Parisian women during and after the Second World War.
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Undying Flame
Powerful combination of Second World War and the Olympic Games. Covers sportsmen/women worldwide. Publication to coincide with the 2020 Olympic Games.
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Mosquito Men
The story of one of the most remarkable – and feared – British aircraft of the Second World War: the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito fighter-bom
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On A Wing And A Prayer (Lavender Road 3)
A compelling saga of south London during the Second World War in which brave women, bound by friendship, do their bit for their country. Irresistible
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Dc Comics Bombshells Vol. 1 - Bennett Marguerite
Anotace: The ultra-popular statues from DC Collectibles come to life in their own ongoing comic book series! Learn the story behind this alternate reality where the Second World War is fought by superpowered women on the front lines and behind the scenes! It all begins with the stories of Batwoman, Wonder Woman and Supergirl.Collects DC Comics: Bombshells #1-6.
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