36 War Memoirs


70048 SIMON WIESENTHAL: The Life and Legends by Tom Segev


In Tel Aviv, on June 26th, 1949, 30 porcelain urns were buried in one grave. They contained the ashes of 200,000 Jews who had been murdered in the Holocaust and whose remains had been collected from concentration camps across Austria. The man who organized this historic spectacle was Simon Wiesenthal, then 41 years old, who - from the day he was released from the Mauthausen concentration camp - had occupied himself with searching out Nazi war criminals and would dedicate the rest of his life to the punishment of these unspeakable torturers and murderers. Although, in the eyes of many people, he was a hero, he was still attacked by those who preferred to try to forget the past. In order to produce this definitive biography of the Nazi hunter, Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthal’s hundreds of thousands of private papers, and to 16 archives, including records of the US, Israeli, Polish and East German secret services. Here is chronicled the nature of his hatred for Elie Wiesel, head of the Memorial Council that worked on the Holocaust Museum, and with whom he had disagreements about the inclusion of Gypsies as victims of the Nazis and his role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann. A revelatory and very moving 482 pages, b/w photos. £20 NOW £7


69259 ALL MUCK, NOW MEDALS: Landgirls by Landgirls by Joan Mant


The Women’s Land Army was actually founded in 1917, but it was during WWII that it attracted the kind of attention which assured its place in the history of the British war effort. Here is Elsie Druce, leaving home for the first time, Betty Schibler in a hostel up a steep hill, threshing - a filthy and noisy job, adventures at silage time, work on a ‘market garden’ and reminiscences of dozens of ‘green’ girls. Getting up at 4am, eating raw potatoes, they cover all facets of the WLA experience, from initial volunteering, training, uniforms and dealing with bombing raids to all aspects of the farming and building work they undertook and, of course, their limited but heartily enjoyed social lives. 259pp paperback with b/w photos.


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69402 48 HOURS OF KRISTALLNACHT by Mitchell G Bard PhD


Subtitled Night of Destruction/ Dawn of the Holocaust/ An Oral History. On the night of November 9th 1938, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and the Südetenland freely attacked Jews in the street, in their homes and at their places of work and worship. Over the next 48 hours, at least 96 Jews were killed and hundreds more injured, as many as 2,000 synagogues were burned, almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed and 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. This pogrom has been named Kristallnacht or Night of the Broken Glass. Chronicles these pivotal 48 hours by presenting a wide array of eye-witness testimony. 240 pages.


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68534 CHURCHILL: The Struggle for Survival 1945-60 by Lord Moran


Charles McMoran Wilson became Winston Churchill’s doctor in 1914 just as the curtain was rising on one of the greatest dramas in our history. His interest in the effects of war on the individual informed his study of this titanic figure when Churchill was battling against declining political influence and the handicaps of old age. The period 1945-60 saw Churchill’s defeat by Attlee, his re- election, the start of the Cold War and the handover of power to Eden. 480pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3.50


69094 ROSIE’S WAR: An English Woman’s


Escape from Occupied France by Rosemary Say and Noel Holland January 1939, and 19-year-old Rosie Say is waving goodbye to her family on the platform of Victoria Station. She is bound for Avignon in the south of France, full of hope and excitement, to begin her new job as an au pair to the Odette family. Her arrival home, three years later, made front-page news. She had been placed in a women’s internment camp. Conditions, though primitive, were not terrible and, as she remarks, the privations of an English boarding school education had armoured her against the horrors of camp life! What followed was a perilous trek over the Pyrenees to war- ravaged Spain, then through neutral Ireland and back to London. Photos, drawings, telegrams and documents. 256pp, colour and b/w illus. £17.99 NOW £5


69502 TALES BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS by Kazuo Tamayama and John Nunneley Over 305,000 Japanese soldiers fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945 of which 180,000 died. Our book tells how the common soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army lived, fought and died in that most terrible conflict. Here are harrowing, honest accounts, translated from Japanese, of what it was like to fight a strange war in a strange country, short of food and weapons, confused and far from home, facing death and disease, starvation as well as enemy action. The 62 ‘tales’ trace the Burma campaign in chronological sequence and together offer a new perspective of a long and arduous war. 254pp in paperback with maps. £8.99 NOW £4.50


69834 EXTREME RISK: A Life Fighting the Bombmakers


by Major Chris Hunter


Hunter joined the army at 16 from a flick-knife comprehensive and had to make his way at Sandhurst alongside the 85% of cadets with a university degree. When the suicide of his drug-addict brother provoked a personal crisis, his commanding officer persuaded Hunter that as a bomb-disposal expert he would have maximum opportunities for fighting the drugs trade which terrorists use to finance their weapons. Hunter is first deployed in Mostar. At an illegal vehicle checkpoint he meets a Yorkshireman, Omar, who has reacted by becoming a jihadist. He experiences several hair’s breadth situations, for instance when he has to neutralise a stash of exploding chemical drums, and the job puts a strain on his relationship with his girlfriend and then wife, Lucy, who gives birth on the day of the Twin Towers attack. Hunter describes being in the bomb disposal control room as events unfold on 7/7, followed by deployment in Colombia and Afghanistan. Raw, funny, moving and horrific by turns. 354pp, maps, colour photos. £17.99 NOW £6


69598 BETTY’S WARTIME DIARY 1939- 1945 by Betty Armitage


Edited by Nicholas Webley from scribblings and scraps of paper which were badly decomposed when found, here is the wartime diary found in a small house in Norfolk written by a seamstress born in the 1880s. Betty Armitage was a theatrical dresser during the first part of the century and moved to Norfolk during the war. Her unusual diary recounts her day to day struggle through an ordinary small-town wartime life, and it is full of wry observations. Here is privation relieved by the occasional poached pheasant, upheaval as thousands of bright young US servicemen ‘invade’ East Anglia, quiet heroes and small-time rural villains. 260pp in paperback. Artworks.


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69613 TASTE OF WARTIME BRITAIN edited by Nicholas Webley


The aim of this entrancing volume is to tell the stories of those who would not normally get their words into print, and to provide vivid background info on life at one of the most fascinating and pivotal periods in history. Here are tales of hardship and stoic endurance, including the legend that was the Home Guard, the second great fire of London and the misery of rationing. The last section is given over to recipes ‘from the Home Front’ such as Home Guard Soup, Nightfighter Stew and Sausages Tucked Up In Bed, which will bring back many nostalgic memories for those who had to endure them as well as amazing those who have no idea what being at war is really like. 175 paperback pages illus with newspaper pictures and personal photos in b/w. £9.99 NOW £4


68949 BLITZ SPIRIT compiled by Jaqueline Mitchell


Here are the songs that were sung, such as the new version of the Lambeth Walk, which became the Blackout Walk, and Noël Coward’s poignant London Pride. And here are the cartoons that kept people laughing as well as warned. ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ blares a poster showing two women gossiping while, behind them on the bus, sit Hitler and Goering. 208 pages, contemporary drawings, archive b/w photos and colour plates.


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Most anthologists…of quotations are like those who eat cherries…first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.


- Nicolas Chamfort 70646 WICKED WIT OF


WINSTON CHURCHILL by Dominique Enright Churchill’s inspiring leadership of the British people, and the war-winning relationships he forged with America and the Soviet Union, won him worldwide fame, and he became an overwhelming presence on the international stage. What was not universally known about him was that he had boundless humour, much of it mischievous, as well as


an enormous wit. His most famous speeches and sayings have passed into history and everyday language, but many of his aphorisms, puns, bons mots and jokes are not public property. Anyone who describes General de Gaulle as looking ‘like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath’ is all right by us, and his definition of golf takes the biscuit: ‘… a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for the purpose’. This unrivalled selection gathers hundreds of his most humorous and wickedest quips in homage to the exhilarating wit of a great-hearted, infuriatingly conceited, wildly funny and brilliantly talented man. 160 pages with b/w illustrations. £9.99 NOW £5


70644 GOOD SAMARITAN


BITES THE DUST by Ferdie Addis


Subtitled The Amazing Way the Bible Influences Our Everyday Language, we only have to flick through to spot dozens of well known phrases lifted from the Bible - no rest for the wicked, no room at the inn, live by the sword, die by the sword, a leopard can’t change his spots, to hide one’s talent under


a bushel, one’s hearts desire, fire and brimstone, my cup runneth over, to crucify, man does not live by bread alone and dozens and dozens more. Have you ever referred to a family member as your flesh and blood or encouraged your friends to eat, drink and be merry? Well wittingly or not, you have been quoting from the Bible. This exciting book explores the origins of countless expressions all found in the Good Book, taking in there usage in popular culture as well as language development. 192pp. £9.99 NOW £4.50


70481 JANE AUSTEN ON


LOVE AND ROMANCE by Constance Moore Finding Your Squire, Dressing To Impress, Shall We Dance?, The Gentle Art Of Conversation, How To Act, Compatibility, Falling In Love, Declarations of Love, Men And Women In Love, Engagement And Marriage, Breaking Up, Unrequited Love and Happily Ever After are the chapter titles. [Emma


Woodhouse] ‘Emma’ said, ‘I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love’ indeed. For those wishing to live happily ever after like Elizabeth Bennett with a man who owns half of Derbyshire, arm yourself with this Austen-tatious guide to flirting and courtship. Wonderfully browseworthy, 128pp in paperback with line art and silhouettes. £4.99 NOW £2.25


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70526 SOLDIERS AND WARRIORS: An Illustrated


History by Jack Coggins From Mongol warriors, Roman soldiers and the Vikings, to Swiss Pike Men, British Redcoats and the French Foreign Legion, this crackling survey examines military might from the time of the Pharaohs to the modern era. Spotlighting frontline foot soldiers, Coggins’s


encyclopaedic effort focuses on the world’s great fighting forces looking at their weapons, tactics and training and uniforms. The ambitious work considers conflicts in the ancient world, siege warfare by the Greeks, raids by the Norsemen and the exploits of England’s Bowmen. It also probes combat histories of the Germans, Japanese, the Samurai code, Russians, Americans and troops from other lands, the Ghurkhas, the Sikhs, the Dervishes, the Ethiopians and the Zulus. Artistry, accuracy of detail and more than 200 of the author’s own black and white drawings make this a now classic compendium, here is bargain priced facsimile reprint of the 1966 original. 372 very large pages with diagrams, maps and line art. £20.99 NOW £7


70603 COMPLETE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF KNIVES, SWORDS, SPEARS AND DAGGERS


by Harvey J. S. Withers and Dr. Tobias Capwell


Knives, swords, spears and other bladed implements are central to the way civilisation has developed, both domestically and in the public


spheres of defence and combat. This beautifully produced encyclopedia includes a compendium of sharp- edged instruments, with 1500 superb colour photos giving detailed profiles of all implements and weapons described. The story starts with hand-held flint knives, revolutionised by the introduction of bronze over 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, and then again by iron in Roman times. From the 11th to the 16th centuries the dagger was the main battlefield weapon, and medieval daggers featured here include cross-hilt daggers for piercing armour and an ornately decorated roundel dagger. Around 1500 the rapier became the sword of choice for the gentleman. The dagger was transformed into the bayonet, which still had a role in 20th century warfare, and cruder weapons such as poleaxes and scythes were also used well into the modern period around the world. Swords and sabres were radically redesigned in the 18th century, and Napoleon’s Heavy Cuirassier Trooper’s Sword had a four-bar brass hilt and a blade over three feet long, designed to instil terror in the enemy together with a high level of destruction. Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese, African and Ottoman weapons are featured alongside their European counterparts in this comprehensive guide. 512pp, softback, lavishly illustrated with 1500 colour photos and authoritative historical survey, glossary, bibliography. ONLY £6.50


70478 ILLUSTRATED


CATALOG OF HANDGUNS by David Miller


Handguns are traditionally regarded as close range weapons, intended for either offensive or defensive use by military, paramilitary and police forces - yet they are also popular among sportsmen for competitions and in some cases for game


shooting. They are designed to be carried in a holster and fired using only one hand. The pistol has a history going back to the 16th century and vast numbers of


68082 MY GRAMMAR AND I (OR SHOULD THAT BE ME?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English


by Caroline Taggart and J. A. Wines Can you tell when a sentence contains more clichés than you have had hot dinners, or if it is tautological and pointlessly repetitive? Is a preposition necessarily a bad thing to end a sentence with? Are you able to immediately spot a split infinitive? The English language is a veritable minefield, but this book explains, in a humorous way, the rules of our troublesome tongue, highlighting the most common mistakes of which we can all be guilty. 191 pages. £9.99 NOW £6


69556 DAMP SQUID: The


English Language Laid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield Among the hundreds of words and phrases which Shakespeare bequeathed to English is ‘sea change’ which is exactly what the somewhat traditional world of dictionary-making has undergone. This super Oxford University Press paperback looks at how many words we have, our


Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English origins and where these words come from, why spelling wobbles, meaning in context, word groupings, idiomatic phrases, what we mean by grammar, usages people hate, and dictionaries then and now. 180pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £4


69297 GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES by James Abbott McNeill Whistler Whistler (1834-1903) was an American-born and British- based artist who was famed for his refusal to accept criticism of any kind of his work. Here is the 1967 edition from Dover Publications, an unabridged facsimile of the 1892 second edition with a 1967 foreword. It is dripping throughout with the biting sarcasm and stinging remarks of one of the wittiest and most controversial men of the 19th century, and his celebrated “passages- at-arms” with the likes of Oscar Wilde, terse and barely restrained “letters to the editor”, rebuttals of criticism, scathing marginal notes to contemptuous comments on his paintings and the hostile reviews themselves are all part of this record of the artist’s vendettas. Most celebrated of all was the libel case he initiated in 1878 against John Ruskin. 340pp paperback. £13.99 NOW £5


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different designs have been produced to meet a seemingly insatiable demand. Gun makers decided to use a single barrel and to place several bullets (usually six) in a rotating cylinder, thus giving birth to the revolver which took several decades to perfect. It led to such excellent and reliable weapons as the products of Colt and Smith & Wesson in the US and Webley in the UK. An alternative approach came with the self- loading automatic pistol which, as with the machine gun, used the recoil of one bullet to load the next with the rounds being contained in a magazine. Some pistols and revolvers were fitted with detachable butts, thus producing weapons which are virtually sub- machine guns like the Glock Model 18. 500 clear colour photos arranged in alphabetical order within five historical periods - Historic, American Civil War, The Frontier, Two World Wars and Modern. A real gallery of craftsmanship, these are fine colour close up images. 256pp in large softback. £14.99 NOW £6


70479 ILLUSTRATED CATALOG OF RIFLES AND


SHOTGUNS by David Miller Apologies for the spelling in the title in what is in fact a British book and a brilliant introduction to Historic Rifles, The American Civil War, Taming The Frontier, Two World Wars, Modern Rifles and Shotguns. A ‘rifled’ firearm is one in which the projectile is made to


spin as it travels up the bore. The ‘rifle’ was originally applied to muskets to differentiate them from the earlier smooth bore weapons and is used today to designate the infantryman’s personal weapons, fired from the shoulder or the hip. The rifle progressed from being a muzzle-loader to a breechloading, bolt-operated weapon, then to a semi-automatic weapon and finally to the lightweight ‘assault rifle’. The emphasis has been always on reducing the weight and making the weapons more accurate, simpler to fire, more reliable and easier to maintain. The shotgun is a smooth ball weapon originally developed as a hunting device for killing fast moving, flying or running prey. Loaded with shot (many small projectiles) the chance of hitting a moving target was greatly enhanced. The weapon has also seen military use in trench warfare and special operations. With over 500 clear colour photographs, each entry has a description and technical specification and is arranged alphabetically within the categories listed above. A super quick reference text and a real gallery of fine craftsmanship. 256pp in large softback. £14.99 NOW £6


64624 COMPLETE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUNS: Pistols, Rifles, Revolvers, Machine and Submachine Guns Through History by Will Fowler, Anthony North, Charles Stronge and Patrick Sweeney


Featuring all the most significant


and famous firearms including Mauser and Lee-Enfield rifles, the Colt .45 pistol, the MP38 submachine gun and the Hotchkiss machine gun, here is an unparalleled guide to the world’s most important firearms from the medieval period to the present day. If contains directories of arms from many parts of the world, organised according to country of manufacture, and incorporates specially commissioned colour illustrations including cutaway diagrams to show internal components and gun operation. Key specifications are given for each weapon, including calibre, magazine capacity, barrel length and unloaded weight, and the authoritative text is by leading firearm experts in their field. 512 softback pages with 1,100 colour photos. ONLY £7


69790 BALDERDASH AND PIFFLE: One


Sandwich Short of a Dog’s Dinner by Alex Games


Published by BBC Books to accompany the eponymous BBC2 show, Balderdash and Piffle is an etymologist’s delight, a riotous ride through the world of the English language and its lexicon, idioms and phrases. Games has sniffed out the remarkable stories behind some of our best-loved expressions and words. We were horrified to discover that a word we considered a gentle put-down - pillock - is in fact an extremely uncomplimentary comparison to the male member, and that insult for all occasions - a**hole - goes back over 1,000 years! As may be expected with us Brits, there are plenty of euphemisms and metaphors for bodily functions, body parts and the sexual act. 238pp, fully indexed. £9.99 NOW £4


69859 SPILLING THE BEANS ON THE CAT’S PYJAMAS: Popular Expressions - What They


Mean and Where We got Them by Judy Parkinson


The English language is littered with linguistic quirks that seem utterly fantastical. To make no bones about it, there is a different flavour of the month for each generation - which leaves many of us up a gum tree - but take a dekko through these pages and you’ll be in seventh heaven because this book is the bee’s knees, the cat’s whiskers and the cat’s pyjamas all rolled into one. The familiar, well-worn expressions that all of us use originate from the most diverse of sources. From the High Street to Homer and from advertising to America this helpful manual is an all-singing, all-dancing trip through the history of our language. 192 pages, line drawings. £9.99 NOW £4


69914 HOW TO TALK LIKE A LOCAL: From


Cockney to Geordie A National Companion by Susie Dent


Here are hundreds of words that you would never find in an ordinary dictionary - all of them simply crying out to be read aloud to long-suffering friends and family, especially the ones like chav which has apparently been around for centuries, would you believe? We cannot wait to call someone in the office a dardledumdue or point out that there is a forkin robbin on their desk. As for learning how to talk like a Brummie or an Ulsterman, nothing could be simpler. And how could you resist a book that is packed with such words as tittamatorter and antwack? We can boast, though, that we knew what stovies were. Delicious! 244 pages. £12.99 NOW £4.50


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