Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics – serie
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Guests of War
Häftad, 2026
139 kr
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When the children of Gowburgh - a soot-streaked industrial town known for its razor gangs and slums - are evacuated to the quiet Scottish Borders village of Langrigg at the outbreak of the Second World War, the contrast is stark. Langrigg, with its clipped hedges and clipped vowels, prides itself …
From The City, From The Plough
Häftad, 2019
126 kr
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January 1944, the south coast of England. The Fifth Battalion, Wessex Regiment wait patiently and nervously for the order to embark. There is boredom and fear, comedy and pathos as the men - all drawn from different walks of life - await the order to move. From The City, From The Plough is a vivid …
Trial By Battle
Av David Piper
Häftad, 2019
122 kr
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October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India and taken under the wing of the dogmatic, overbearing Acting-Captin Sam Holl. Following the Japanese advance on Singapore, the men are deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the …
Plenty Under The Counter
Häftad, 2019
126 kr
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London, 1942. Flight-Lieutenant David Heron, home in London on convalescent leave, awakes to the news that a murder victim has been discovered in the garden of his boarding house. With a week until his service resumes, David Sets out to solve the murder. Drawn into a world of mystery and double …
Patrol
Häftad, 2020
126 kr
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He stared desperately into the dark trying to force his eyes to see, so that they ached more than ever . . . He sensed that the eyes of men were drilling into the back of his neck, so that it felt prickly. Being lost when you are the leader is the worst thing of all. He hated them because he was …
Warriors for the Working Day
Av Peter Elstob
Häftad, 2020
126 kr
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"Brook was overcome by the most powerful feeling of sheer animal terror. It was as though his whole body and soul had suddenly rebelled against what he was doing and where he was. For a fraction of a second he wanted to scream and fly in panic, and only the physical impossibility of getting out of …
Green Hands
Häftad, 2020
124 kr
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It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in ruralScotland. Here they are introduced to the realities of 'lending a hand on the land', as back-breaking work and inhospitable weather mean they struggle to keep their spirits …
Pathfinders
Av Cecil Lewis
Häftad, 2021
126 kr
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A new edition of Cecil Lewis’s 1944 aviation classic.Over the course of a single night in 1942, the crew members of a Wellington bomber reflect on the paths of their own lives as they embark on a fateful mission deep in the heart of Nazi Germany. Based on his own experience as a World War I fighter …
Sword of Bone
Häftad, 2021
126 kr
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A reissue of Anthony Rhodes’s acclaimed 1942 novel detailing his own wartime experience during the evacuation at Dunkirk. It is September 1939. Shortly after World War II is declared, Anthony Rhodes is sent to France, serving with the British Army. His days are filled with the minutiae and …
To All the Living
Häftad, 2021
124 kr
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A seminal novel of factory life in wartime England. Praised for its detailed portrayal of the roles of women in wartime society, Monica Felton's 1945 novel gives a lively account of the experiences of a group of men and women working in a munitions factory during World War II. Detailing the …
Paid to Be Safe
IWM Wartime Classic
Av Margaret Morrison, Pamela Tulk-Hart
Häftad, 2023
126 kr
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When Singapore falls to Japan's Imperial army in early 1942, the life that Susan Sandyman has lovingly created abroad is shattered. Forced to flee home to the hamlets of southern England, she can either succumb to grief or find solace in war work. When a chance encounter with the elusive Air …
Eight Hours from England
Häftad, 2019
126 kr
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Autumn 1943. Realising that his feelings fro his sweetheart are not reciprocated, Major John Overton accepts a posting behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Albania. As he struggles to complete his mission amidst a chaotic backdrop, Overton is left to ruminate on loyalty, comradeship and the futility …
Squadron Airborne
Häftad, 2020
126 kr
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In the summer of 1940, the Battle of Britain rages in the skies over southern England. Nineteen-year-old Pilot OfficerPeter Stuyckes arrives at RAF Westhill and is immediately put to the test.Based on the author's own service as an RAF Flight Engineer,Squadron Airborne takes place over one …
Mailed Fist
Av Cedric Foley
Häftad, 2022
126 kr
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The story of a troop in the British Army during World War II as told by the man who led them. In April 1943, newly commissioned John Foley was posted to command Five Troop and their trusty Churchill tanks Avenger, Alert, and Angler--thus beginning his initiation into the Royal Armoured Corps. This …
Three Men in New Suits
Häftad, 2025
146 kr
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It is spring 1945. Three men who have been serving together overseas return, demobilised, to the same village. Coming from very different walks of life, the war has brought them together in unexpected friendship. Following each man as he returns home and must come to terms with what he finds there, …
