❦The Guns of August
The Guns of August
The opening month of the First World War, told hour by hour, as Europe's plans collide with reality and the long stalemate begins.
The Shelves
The World Wars
The two global conflicts of the twentieth century — causes, battles and the people who lived through them.
12 books on this shelf
❦The Splendid and the Vile
The Splendid and the Vile
Churchill's first year as prime minister, as Britain faces the Blitz, seen through his family, his advisers and private diaries.
❦Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers
One company of American paratroopers, from training camp to D-Day, Bastogne and the end of the war in Europe.
❦Dead WakeThe Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The final voyage of the Lusitania in 1915, told through passengers, a U-boat captain and secret intelligence, with mounting, page-turning tension.
❦In the Garden of Beasts
In the Garden of Beasts
An American ambassador and his daughter arrive in Hitler's Berlin in 1933 and slowly realise what the new regime truly is.
❦Night
Night
Elie Wiesel's short, searing memoir of deportation and survival in the Nazi camps as a teenage boy with his father.
❦Stalingrad
Stalingrad
The battle that turned the tide on the Eastern Front, told through generals' decisions and the brutal experience of soldiers and civilians.
❦The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
The diary Anne Frank kept while hiding from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam: honest, observant and profoundly moving.
❦The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A monumental history of Nazi Germany, from Hitler's rise to the regime's collapse, written by an American journalist who reported from Berlin.
❦The Second World War
The Second World War
The whole of the Second World War in one volume, from Europe to the Pacific, told through strategy and the experiences of ordinary people.
❦The SleepwalkersHow Europe Went to War in 1914
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
How did a murder in Sarajevo drag a whole continent into war? A gripping, even-handed look at the road to 1914.
❦UnbrokenA World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
An Olympic runner becomes a bomber crewman, survives weeks adrift in the Pacific and endures prison camps: an extraordinary true story.
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