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GATHERING STORM Book 1 : From War to War 1919-1939 Book II : The Twilight War September 3, 1939-May to, 1940

By Churchill( Winston Spencer. 1951

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LOST PEACE: LEADERSHIP IN A TIME OF HORROR AND HOPE 1945 - 1953

By Robert Dallek. Harper Perennial 2010

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HISTORY OF INDIAN AIRFORCE

By Sandeep Chopra. Allahabad Meenakshi Prakashan 2012 9789382634003

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UNFORGIVING YEARS :

By Serge, Victor. New York : New York Review Books, 2008 , Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer’s works. The book is arranged into four sections, like the panels of an immense mural or the movements of a symphony. In the first, D, a lifelong revolutionary who has broken with the Communist Party and expects retribution at any moment, flees through the streets of prewar Paris, haunted by the ghosts of his past and his fears for the future. Part two finds D’s friend and fellow revolutionary Daria caught up in the defense of a besieged Leningrad, the horrors and heroism of which Serge brings to terrifying life. The third part is set in Germany. On a dangerous assignment behind the lines, Daria finds herself in a city destroyed by both Allied bombing and Nazism, where the populace now confronts the prospect of total defeat. The novel closes in Mexico, in a remote and prodigiously beautiful part of the New World where D and Daria are reunited, hoping that they may at last have escaped the grim reckonings of their modern era. A visionary novel, a political novel, a novel of adventure, passion, and ideas, of despair and, against all odds, of hope, Unforgiving Years is a rediscovered masterpiece by the author of The Case of Comrade Tulayev. 9781590172476 (alk. paper) | 1590172477 (alk. paper)

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KARL DOENITZ AND THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH

By Turner,Barry. UK Icon 2015 , Among the military leaders of World War II, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remains a deeply controversial figure. As chief of the German submarine fleet he earned Allied respect as a formidable enemy. But after he succeeded Adolf Hitler—to whom he was unquestioningly loyal—as head of the Third Reich, his name became associated with all that was most hated in the Nazi regime. Yet Doenitz deserves credit for ending the war quickly while trying to save his compatriots in the east. His Dunkirk-style operation across the Baltic rescued up to two million troops and civilian refugees. He was sentenced to ten years at Nuremberg—a penalty acknowledged as a blatant example of victor's justice—and after his release from Spandau kept well away from politics. Barry Turner's closely examined and even-handed portrait gives a fascinating new perspective on this complex figure, to whom history has not been kind. 9781785780547

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INDIA'S WAR Making of modern South Asia,1939-1945 (World War II)

By Srinath Raghavan. Haryana Penguin 2016 , "Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent irreversible change when Indians suddenly found themselves fighting in World War II, and the author paints a picture of battles abroad and life on the home front, arguing that the war is crucial to explaining why colonial rule ended in South Asia,"--NoveList. 9780670086115

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ARDENNES 1944 : Hitler's Last Gamble

By Beevor,Antony . UK Viking 2016 , The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day and Stalingrad reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp and forcing the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the east. Many were exultant at the prospect of striking back. The allies, taken by surprise, found themselves fighting two panzer armies. Belgian civilians abandoned their homes, justifiably afraid of German revenge. Panic spread even to Paris. While some American soldiers, overwhelmed by the German onslaught, fled or surrendered, others held on heroically, creating breakwaters which slowed the German advance. The harsh winter conditions and the savagery of the battle became comparable to the Eastern Front. In fact the Ardennes became the Western Front’s counterpart to Stalingrad. There was terrible ferocity on both sides, driven by desperation and revenge, in which the normal rules of combat were breached. The Ardennes—involving more than a million men—would prove to be the battle which finally broke the back of the Wehrmacht. In this deeply researched work, with striking insights into the major players on both sides, Antony Beevor gives us the definitive account of the Ardennes offensive which was to become the greatest battle of World War II. 9780141046587

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BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE Extraordinary story of Indian VCs of World War 1

By Cardozo,Ian. New Delhi Bloomsbury 2016 , The Bravest of the Brave: The Extraordinary Story of Indian VCs of World War I [Hardcover] [Jun 01, 2016] MAJ.GEN. IAN CARDOZO ... 9789385936241

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IF THIS IS A MAN THE TRUCE

By Levi,Primo. London Everyman's Library 2000 , Summary: Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. If This Is A Man describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spent working in Auschwitz. The Truce covers his long journey home to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never raises his voice, complains or attributes blame. By telling his story quietly, objectively and in plain language he renders both the horror and the hope of the situation with absolute clarity. Probing the themes which preoccupy all his writing - work, love, power, the nature of things, what it is to be human - he leave the reader drained, elated, apprehensive. 9781857152227

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WOMEN IN SECRET AGENCIES

By Bittu K Singh (ed.). Delhi Lenin Media 2015 , Spices and secret agents played an important role in World War II. Each country had their own spy organizations that tried to get secret information about their enemies such as troop movements, supplies, bunker, locations, and new weapons. An Agent should be calm, unostentatious, and reticent, women are emotional, vain loquacious. They fall in love easily and without discrimination. They are impatient with the strict requirements of security measures. They withstand hardships poorly, Moreover, they tend to become even less capable physically and less responsible mentally for several days out of every month. Despite the success of these women who managed to gravitate into the Operations Division from the Administrative or analysis divisions, the number of direct women recruits to the Operations Division remained low till Ronald Reagan become the President, During his presidency, under the pressure of the operational requirements for the covert war against the USSR in Afghanistan, the recruitment of women operatives to the CIA increased. Today, the secret service attracted and retains professional women of all backgrounds and experiences who fill a wide range of law enforcement professional and technical positions 9789385160332

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HISTORY OF INDIAN AIRFORCE

By Sandeep Chopra. Allahabad Meenakshi Prakashan 2012 9789382634003

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ECHOES

By Steel, Danielle. New York : Bantam Dell, 2004 , "A Dell book." 0440240786 (pbk.)

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JEWELS

By Steel,Danielle . New York Dell Books 1992 9780440214229

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MIRROR IMAGE

By Brown,Sandra. New york Warner Books 1990 0446353957

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ENGLISH PATIENT

By Michael Ondaatje. Picador 1993 9780747572596

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GERMAN WAR A Nation Under Arms,1939-45

By Stargardt,Nicholas. London Vintage 2015 , In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials—personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence—to answer this question. He offers an unprecedented portrait of wartime Germany, bringing the hopes and expectations of the German people—from infantrymen and tank commanders on the Eastern front to civilians on the home front—to vivid life. While most historians identify the German defeat at Stalingrad as the moment when the average German citizen turned against the war effort, Stargardt demonstrates that the Wehrmacht in fact retained the staunch support of the patriotic German populace until the bitter end. Astonishing in its breadth and humanity, The German War is a groundbreaking new interpretation of what drove the Germans to fight—and keep fighting—for a lost cause. 9780099539872

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SECRETS AND STORIES OF THE WAR : A SELECTION OF THE ARTICLES AND BOOK CONDENSATIONS IN WHICH THE READER'S DIGEST RECORDED THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Volume 1

By The Reader's digest. London Readers Digest Association

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WORLD WAR 3 A Military Projection Founded on Today's Facts

By Bidwell,Shelford. England Hamlyn 1978 0600394786

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PATH TO THE SPIDERS NESTS

By Calvino,Italo. England Penguin 2009 , DESCRIPTION Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in the adults' war. Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include "Cosmicomics" (1968), "Invisible Cities" (1972), and "If on a winter's night a traveler" (1979). He died in Siena in 1985. Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College. In addition to his published academic works he is the English translator of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino among many others. REVIEWS 'An insight into the making of a European' Observer 'The crucial novel of Calvino's early years' Mail on Sunday AUTHOR DESCRIPTION Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985. Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College. In addition to his published academic works he is the English translator of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino among many others. 9780141189734

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STORM OF STEEL

By Junger,Ernst. UK Penguin 2016 , 'Out of the hideously scarred soil of Flanders rose black, splintered trunks of trees' In one of the greatest war memoirs ever written, an ordinary German soldier recalls the horror and bloodlust of combat on the Western Front with brutal, unflinching candour and stark simplicity. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the Author Ernst Jünger, the son of a wealthy chemist, ran away from home to join the Foreign Legion. His father dragged him back, but he returned to military service when he joined the German army on the outbreak of the First World War.Storm of Steel was Jünger's first book, published in 1920. Jünger died in 1998. 9780241261996

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LOST ESTATE

By Alain-Fournier,Henri. UK Penguin 2016 , 'He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the château...' A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers. About the Author Alain-Fournier was born in 1886, the son of a country school-master. He was educated at Brest and in Paris, where he met and fell in love with the original Yvonne, who influenced his whole life and work. The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes), his only completed novel, was published in 1912. Two years later, Alain-Fournier was killed in action on the Western Front. 9780241258910

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GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK

By Jaroslav Hasek. New Delhi Penguin 2016 , Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards, getting drunk and becoming a general nuisance, the resourceful Švejk uses all his natural cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the doctors, police, clergy and officers who chivvy him towards battle. The story of a 'little man' caught in a vast bureaucratic machine, The Good Soldier Švejk combines dazzling wordplay and piercing satire to create a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. Cecil Parrott's vibrant, unabridged and unbowdlerized translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing Hašek's turbulent life as an anarchist, communist and vagranty, and the Everyman character of Švejk. This edition also includes a guide to Czech names, maps and original illustrations by Josef Ladas. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions Reviews: Graven Images Had to go to Amazon for this - couldn't find it in a bookstore. Classic Eastern European dry wit and ironic fatalism . . . the perfect attitude for an unenthusiastic soldier marching off to a war he doesn't understand, doesn't care to be involved in, and has nothing to gain by participating - except maybe a marble headstone with his name on it, if even that. If you appreciate Eastern European "dark humor" in the vein of Kundera, Wolfe, Gogol, or Bulgakov, you'll love this work. The same can be said for Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five," Joseph Heller's "Catch-22," or Mark Twain's hilarious short story "A History of a Campaign that Failed" . . . appreciate the ironic, "dark humor" of these works, get "The Good Soldier Svejk." Highly recommended by this ex-professor of English and lover of sarcastic, raucous, and irreverent literature. A must-read, once perhaps, for any serious military historian or historian of early 20th Century Europe. Hasek's writing style is varied, depending on circumstances (and sobriety), which can make the book a challenge to read sometimes but that's part of the story too. At times absurdly hilarious and often scandalous in its treatment of the royalty, this book was banned throughout much of Europe in the 1930s. While not as powerfully simple as "All Quiet on the Western Front," this book carries a strong message about the waste and folly of military campaigns of the day. I enjoyed reading this book and I passed it along to another historian because, as good as it was, I doubted I'd reread it anytime soon. 9780241260036

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FIRST WORLD WAR

By Williams,Brian. London Ladybird Books , This Ladybird Histories Book is perfect for children learning about the First World War at school. It looks at life in the trenches, the countries that took part, where the battles took place and how the war changed the lives of people around the world. Packed full of interesting and entertaining details that will delight all readers - from lifestyles, battles, and important characters, to the influence that events in history have played on the world around us today. Everything you need to know about the First World War for school homework! 9780723270850

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ITHU CYCLE YATHRAYALLA : JEEVITHATHILEKKULLA ENTE MADAKKAYATHRA (It's not about the bike : my journey back to life) (ഇത് സൈക്കിൾ യാത്രയല്ല : ജീവിതത്തിലേക്കുള്ള എന്റെ മടക്കയാത്ര ) (ലാൻസ് ആംസ്ട്രോങ് )

By Amstrong,Lance. Kottayam D C 2016 9788126473908

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AWARD

By Steel, Danielle. London Bantam Press 2016 , Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France. In a matter of months, her father and brother are killed, her mother descends into madness, and her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, is sent to a detention camp. Taking terrifying risks, Gaëlle becomes a member of the Resistance, fearlessly delivering Jewish children to safety underneath the eyes of the Gestapo and their French collaborators. Conducted in secret, her missions for the Resistance will mark her for years. In the final days of the war, she executes a plan to help save France's art treasures. But when the war draws to a close, she is falsely accused of collaboration, and flees to Paris in disgrace. There, she begins a new life that eventually takes her to New York, from a career as a Dior model to marriage and motherhood, unbearable loss, and mature, lasting love when she returns to France. The ghosts of the past are always near. No matter where she goes, her label as a collaborator remains, until her granddaughter, a respected political journalist, embarks on a journey to see her grandmother recognized as the war hero she was . . . Danielle Steel is famous for her inspirational stories about family, love and life. Her novels will be enjoyed by readers of Penny Vincenzi, Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain. 9780593068977

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PALESTINE-ISRAELI CONFLICT

By Cohn-Sherbok,Dan . Oneworld Publications 2015 , Giving a thorough and accessible account of the Palestine-Israeli conflict past, present and future, this introduction is jointly authored by an American rabbi and Professor of Judaism, and a Palestinian lecturer on Islam. The result is a real insight into the bitter truths at the heart of this situation, with each author giving full vent to the emotions behind the two sides of the debate without avoiding any issues, however confrontational and conflict-ridden. The conclusion is a direct exchange between the two authors, which raises many further issues, but which does see both sides holding out hope for resolution and a real solution in the future. 9781780743806

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DANGLING MAN

By Bellow,Saul. England Penguin Books 1944

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FINAL SOLUTION : Fate of the Jews 1933-1949

By Cesarani, David. London Pan Macmillan 2016 , David Cesarani's Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust. Not only does David Cesarani draw together and engage with the latest scholarly research, making extensive use of previously untapped resources such as diaries and letters from within the ghettos and camps (many of them in Polish or Yiddish and therefore previously largely inaccessible to Anglo-American scholars) but by adopting a rigorously Judeocentric approach the whole narrative of the march to genocide and its aftermath the book presents a subtly different timeline which casts afresh the horror of the period and engenders a significant re-evaluation of the how and why. Eschewing some of the more fevered theses about the guilt of the perpetrators (and indeed recasting how wide that net should be spread), David Cesarani's measured and skilful negotiation of a crowded field is, as a result, all the more devastating. 9780330535373

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YUDHABHOOMIYILE STHREEPORALIKAL /യുദ്ധഭൂമിയിലെ സ്ത്രീപോരാളികൾ/war's unwomanly face

By Alexievich,Svetlana. Thrissur Green Books 2017 , UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR സ്ത്രീ മാതാവാണ്. അവൾ ജീവൻ നല്കുന്നവളാണ്. കുഞ്ഞിനെ മുലയൂട്ടുന്നവളാണ്. യുദ്ധമുഖത്ത് അവർക്കെങ്ങനെ മറ്റൊരു ജീവൻ കവർന്നെടുക്കാനാകും? അമ്മമാരുടെ നെഞ്ചിലൂറിയ യുദ്ധകാലത്തെ ആയിരമായിരം കഥനകഥകൾ കൊണ്ട് ഈ പുസ്തകം കണ്ണുനീരണിഞ്ഞു നിൽക്കുന്നു. കഠോരമായ യുദ്ധഭൂമിയിലും അവൾ പൂക്കൾ പെറുക്കുന്നു . ചോരപ്പാടുകൾ മായ്ച്ചു കളഞ്ഞു എപ്പോഴും മുഖം മിനുക്കി നടക്കുന്നു. ഒരു ചോക്ലേറ്റ് മിട്ടായി യുദ്ധത്തിലും അവളെ മോഹിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. അവൾ സ്ത്രീയാണ്. സ്നേഹത്തിന്റെ നീരുറവയാണ്. യുദ്ധം അവസാനിച്ചിട്ടും ഒരു പേക്കിനാവ് പോലെ അവർ തങ്ങളുടെ ഓർമ്മകൾ കൊണ്ട് നടന്നു. മനുഷ്യജീവിതത്തിന്റെ തീവ്രതകളെ ചാലിച്ചെഴുതിയ സ്വെറ്റ്ലാന അലെക്സിവിച്‌ എന്ന എഴുത്തുകാരി “എല്ലാ യുദ്ധങ്ങളെക്കാൾ മേലെയാണ് മനുഷ്യൻ“ എന്ന് 9789386440150

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HOLOCAUST : New History

By Rees,Laurence . UK Viking - Penguin 2017 , This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Now, in his magnum opus, he combines largely unpublished testimony with the latest academic research to create the first accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust in over three decades. Rees argues that whilst hatred of the Jews was always at the epicentre of Nazi thinking - and the Holocaust was the most appalling crime in history - what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside other Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well. He also reveals the inner machinations of the Nazi state and shows how there was no single "decision" to start the Holocaust; instead, a series of escalations cumulatively created the horror. Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring the latest historical research and enthralling eyewitness testimony, this is the compelling story of humanity's lowest point. 9780241298183

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INDIAN SPY : True Story of the Most Remarkable Secret Agent of World War II

By Mihir Bose. New Delhi Aleph 2017 , Bhagat Ram Talwar, a Hindu Pathan from the Northwest Frontier Province of British India, was the only quintuple spy of World War II, spying for Britain, Italy, Germany, Japan and the USSR. His exploits and the people he worked with were truly remarkable. His spying missions saw him walk back and forth 24 times from Peshawar to Kabul eluding capture and certain death. He fooled the Germans so successfully that they gave him £ 2.5 million, in today’s money, and awarded him the Iron Cross. His British spymaster was Peter Fleming, the brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Fleming, operating from the gardens of the Viceroy’s House in wartime Delhi, gave him the code name Silver. Talwar became a spy after he helped Subhas Chandra Bose escape India via Kabul. Bose was seeking help from Germany and Japan to free India and never discovered that Talwar was betraying him to the British. Talwar settled in UP after India won independence; he died of natural causes in 1983. Based on research in previously classified files of the Indian, British, Russian and other governments, The Indian Spy tells for the first time the full story of the most extraordinary agent of World War II 9789386021588

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N OR M ?

By Christie,Agatha. UK Harper Collins Publishers 2001 9780007282272

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CAVENDON HALL

By Bradford,Barbara Taylor . London Harper 2014 9780007503216

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WHERE MY HEART USED TO BEAT

By Faulks,Sebastian . London Vintage 2015 , On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks - an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer - is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host is Alexander Pereira, a man who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. 9780099549253

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MISCHLING

By Konar, Affinity . London Atlantic Books 2016 , It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks - a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin - travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it. 9781786490858

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WAVE ME GOODBYE

By Wilson, Jacqueline . UK Doubleday 2017 , September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesn't know where she's going, or what's going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she's going on 'a little holiday'. Shirley is billeted in the country, with two boys from East End London, Kevin and Archie - and their experiences living in the strange, half-empty Red House, with the mysterious and reclusive Mrs Waverley, will change their lives for ever. 9780857535177

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UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR

By Alexievich,Svetlana . UK Penguin 2017 , The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front, and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers, pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familiar with, creating an extraordinary alternative history from their private stories. Published in 1985 in Russia and now available in English for the first time, The Unwomanly Face of War was Alexievich's first book and a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union, establishing her as a brilliantly revolutionary writer. 9780141983523

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By Steel,Danielle. London Corgi Books 2017 , Ga lle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France. In a matter of months, her father and brother are killed, her mother descends into madness, and her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, is sent to a detention camp. Taking terrifying risks, Ga lle becomes a member of the Resistance, fearlessly delivering Jewish children to safety underneath the eyes of the Gestapo and their French collaborators. Conducted in secret, her missions for the Resistance will mark her for years. In the final days of the war, she executes a plan to help save France's art treasures. But when the war draws to a close, she is falsely accused of collaboration, and flees to Paris in disgrace. There, she begins a new life that eventually takes her to New York, from a career as a Dior model to marriage and motherhood, unbearable loss, and mature, lasting love when she returns to France. The ghosts of the past are always near. No matter where she goes, her label as a collaborator remains, until her granddaughter, a respected political journalist, embarks on a journey to see her grandmother recognized as the war hero she was . . . Danielle Steel is famous for her inspirational stories about family, love and life. Her novels will be enjoyed by readers of Penny Vincenzi, Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain. 9780552166188

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SPINNING HISTORY : politics and propaganda in World War II /

By Lande, Nathaniel. New York Skyhorse 2017 , In this fascinating book, more relevant than ever in today's political climate of "alternative facts," bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the war as a drama that evolved and developed as it progressed, a production staged and overseen by four contrasting masters: Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin. Each leader used all the tools at his disposal to present his own distinctive vision of the global drama that was the Second World War. Each area of the media was fully exploited. Brilliantly conceived oratory was applied to underscore each vision. Impression management, the art of political spin, was employed to drive the message home with the careful use of black and white propaganda. Each side employed uniforms, meticulously staged events, and broadcast their messages via all media available--motion pictures, radio broadcasts, songs, posters, leaflets, and beyond. Their ambitions were similar, but each leader had his own distinct methods, his own carefully created script for elaborately produced and often wildly successful acts and campaigns of deception to win hearts and minds on the frontlines and the home front. The result of this investigation is a wholly distinctive and often surprising work of history, a book that manages to cast a fresh light on the most obsessively studied conflict in human history. 9781510715868 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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THEEKKATTILOOTE / തീക്കാറ്റിലൂടെ

By Mathew,K P. Kottayam NBS 2016 , Book Name in English : Theekkattiloote രണ്ടാം ലോകമഹായുദ്ധത്തില്‍ കോണ്‍സെന്‍ ട്രേഷന്‍ ക്യാമ്പുകളില്‍ തീക്കാറ്റില്‍ അമര്‍ന്ന പരകോടി ജീവിതങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് സ്മരണാഞ്ജലിയായി സമര്‍പ്പിക്കുന്ന നോവല്‍. 9780000308870

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PROMISED LAND

By Remarque,Erich Maria . London Vintage 2014 , The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving account of an emigrant's experience of New York during World War II From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years of wandering through a perlious, suffering Europe. Remarque's final novel, left unfinished at his death, tells of the precarious life of the refugee – life lived in hotel lobbies, on false passports, the strange, ill-assorted refugee community held together by an unspeakable past. For Somner, each new luxury - ice cream served in drugstores, bright shop windows, art, a new suit, a new romance - has a bittersweet edge. Memories of war and inhumanity continue to resurface even in this peaceful promised land. A haunting snapshot of a unique time, place and predicament, this is another powerful comment from Remarque on the devastating effects of war. 9780099577096

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MIRROR IMAGE

By Brown,Sandra. New york Warner Books 1990 0446353957

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HONOUR AND FIDELITY : India's military contribution to the great war 1914-18 /

By Amarinder Singh. New Delhi Roli Books 2015 , Second impression. First published: 2014. | Accompanied by DVD. | DVD attached to page 3 of cover. 9788174369888 | 8174369880

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JAI-HIND : Diary of Rebel Daughter of India with the Rani of Jhansi Regiment

By nil. Kolkata Akanksha 2015 , In Aid of Relief Fund for Families of the Azad Hind Fauj Soldiers 9789381092255

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IVAN : STORY

By Vladimir Bogomolov. Ghaziabad Creative Books 2017 9788192575766

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BATTLEFIELDS OF IMPHAL : Second World War and North East India

By Katoch, Hemant Singh,. London Routledge 2016 9781138203549

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UNTOUCHED HOUSE

By Hermans,Willem Frederik . London Pushkin Press 2018 , A partisan fighting with the Red Army in Germany comes across a grand, abandoned house, seemingly untouched by the devastation sweeping the country. Exhausted, he falls asleep in the living room, but wakes to find a German patrol marching up the garden path. His only hope is to pose as the house’s owner, but how will he keep up the pretence when the real owner returns? Dazzling, dark and scorchingly violent, with the breakneck pace of a thriller, this timeless classic is a vivid depiction of what happens when the mask of decency is cast aside in the savagery of war. 9781782274445

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I AM DAVID

By Holm,Anne . London Modern Classics 1963 , ‘Summary: You must get away tonight,' the man had told him. David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone, who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure that they won't catch up with him. This is the remarkable story of David's introduction to the world: sea, mountains and flowers, the colours of Italy, the taste of fruit, people laughing and smiling, all are new to David. David learns that his polite manner, his haunted eyes and his thin features are strange to other people. He must learn to fend for himself in this strange new world. 9781405288736

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