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Recommended History ...

This week I am recommending the work of David Roman whose epic A History of Mankind is getting an enthusiastic following ... and some WWII titles

24 hrs ago

'The One Ship Fleet'

An exclusive excerpt from a new history of one of the busiest ships in the US Navy - the USS Boise - in action eighty years ago this week, off Salerno

Sep 17

'With Recce at Arhem'

The experiences of a British soldier who parachuted into Arnhem on the first day of Operation Market Garden

Sep 10

Defending Crete from the Fallschirmjagers

A new account of the contribution made by the Royal Engineers to the rear guard action, as the British withdrew from Crete in 1941

Sep 3

From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem

The extraordinary story of Stanislaw Kulik's epic odyssey across the Soviet Union and on to Britain to become a Paratrooper

Aug 20

Nachtjagd - Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943

A dramatic account from a Luftwaffe night-fighter pilot of just one night in August 1943

Aug 13

An excerpt from the extraordinary autobiography of Bruno Sutkus, describing life on the front line of a Grenadier regiment - even before he began work…

Aug 6

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