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1	Those Who Save Us more books like this by Jenna Blum add to wishlist A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
2	Letters to a Young Poet more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.82! \| first editions
3	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II more books like this by Douglas A Blackmon add to wishlist Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off the debt as unpaid laborers. see all copies from £6.73! new only from £6.77!
4	Dreamers of the Day more books like this by Mary Doria Russell add to wishlist Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates modern headlines. As enlightening as it is entertaining, "Dreamers of the Day" is a memorable, passionately written novel. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	To Hell and Back more books like this by Audie Murphy add to wishlist Originally published in 1949, TO HELL AND BACK was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty years later, this classic wartime memoir is just as gripping as it was then. Desperate to see action but rejected by both marines and paratroopers because he was too ... see all copies from £5.79! new only from £5.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Flags of Our Fathers more books like this by J Bradley add to wishlist The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima is told through the lives of six young men pictured in the famous news photo of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi. Hailing from different parts of the United States, these young men can be seen as representative of the generation that grew up in the '30s and went off to fight in the '40s. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde more books like this by Jeff Guinn add to wishlist Bestselling author Guinn combines exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of Bonnie and Clyde--two kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more important, fame. see all copies from £6.35! new only from £7.64! \| first editions
8	Catch-22 more books like this by Joseph L Heller (Preface by) add to wishlist Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced--quite rightly, ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Betsy-Tacy and Tib more books like this by Maud Hart Lovelace add to wishlist The story of three best friends growing up in America at the turn of the century. The adventures in this book take place during the year that the girls are 8 years old. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.83! \| first editions
10	The Sacrifice more books like this by Beverly Lewis add to wishlist Abram's Daughters book 3, the sequel to the bestselling The Betrayal. This powerful family saga features four Amish courting-age sisters growing up in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, beginning in the 1940s. Life in Gobbler's Knob was all Leah Ebersol ever wanted until her older sister Sadie abandoned faith and family, leaving Leah no choice but to ... see all copies from £3.97! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
11 view cover	Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 more books like this by Bryan Burrough add to wishlist Journalist Bryan Burrough, grandson of an FBI agent, details the spread of both a new type of crime and a new type of crime-catcher in the early 1930s. The socioeconomic conditions in the U.S. during the Great Depression facilitated the rise in flashy, bloody crime sprees across state lines, committed by limelight-seeking perpetrators such as ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	War and Remembrance more books like this by Herman Wouk add to wishlist This novel continues the story begun in "The Winds of War", following the dispersed lives of the Henry clan from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill more books like this by Maud Hart Lovelace add to wishlist The continuing story of Betsy, Tacy, and Tib--three friends growing up in America at the turn of the century. Now almost 10, the girls have just learned that a Queen of Summer is going to be crowned for their neighborhood. In order to gather enough votes to ensure that Tib will be named Queen, the girls venture into an unfamiliar neighborhood- ... see all copies from £2.34! new only from £2.34! \| first editions
14 view cover	Farewell to Arms more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist Hemingway's second full-length novel, published in 1929, calls on his own experiences during World War I, when he worked for the Red Cross in Italy, was wounded after only six weeks on duty, and recuperated in a hospital in Milan, where he had a romance with a nurse. The blend of fact and imagination in A FAREWELL TO ARMS, however, is artful; ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.84! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Secret Scripture more books like this by Sebastian Barry add to wishlist Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 more books like this by Professor Stephen E Ambrose add to wishlist Historian Ambrose evokes what it was like to be in a B-24 as pilot, gunner, bombardier, or navigator, as these planes flew missions over German territory during World War II. He chronicles their training and assesses their contribution to the Allied victory--which was often at great cost to these freedom-loving men who made a difference. Much of ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Angelas Ashes more books like this by Frank McCourt add to wishlist After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he told about it. ANGELA'S ASHES traces the tortuous path of his life from his days in abysmal poverty in Limerick ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. more books like this by Ron Chernow add to wishlist A biography of the famed American industrialist and benefactor. Widely reviled during his lifetime for his rapacious business practices, Rockefeller amassed the greatest fortune of his times and eventually became as adept at giving away funds as he was at making them. see all copies from £2.93! new only from £9.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Soldier Spies more books like this by W E B Griffin add to wishlist The third book in this series of World War II spy novels follows fearless, libidinous secret agents Major Richard Caniday and Eric Fulmar on their dangerous mission to save the life of a scientist and his enticing daughter. While the Nazis are holding the scientist captive for his expert assistance in the Third Reich's development of jet engines, ... see all copies from £3.24! new only from £3.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Secret Honor more books like this by W E B Griffin add to wishlist This installment in W.E.B. Griffin's best-selling historical thriller series pits World War II fighter pilot Cletus Howell Frade against the OSS and their search for a father/son team of assassins. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Fighting Agents more books like this by W E B Griffin add to wishlist In 1943, Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer, has assembled a band of guerrillas in Japan to bring chaos into the Japanese war effort. The American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) struggles to get supplies to Fertig and his men. In a parallel plot, the OSS is also engaged in a vital mission on another front: smuggling a pivotal atomic scientist ... see all copies from £3.24! new only from £3.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Runner more books like this by Christopher Reich add to wishlist At the end of WWII Erich Seyss, former SS officer and Olympic sprinter, known as the 'White Lion', uses his skills as a trained killer and escapes from the American POW camp holding him. He finds refuge with a shadowy organisation of former Nazis who plan to use his expertise in a breathtaking plot - a conspiracy that could change the destiny of ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	The Last Town on Earth more books like this by Thomas Mullen add to wishlist Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced--the 1918 flu epidemic--Mullen's powerful, sweeping first novel is a tale of morality in a time of upheaval. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 more books like this by David M Kennedy add to wishlist Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, ... see all copies from £4.03! new only from £12.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Secret Warriors more books like this by W E B Griffin add to wishlist International political conspiracies abound in the second volume of Griffen's Men at War series, which chronicles the covert operations of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. The clandestine maneuvers of the O.S.S. took place in major cities such as Washington, DC and London, as well as in more exotic locations like Morocco and the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.17! \| signed copies \| first editions

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