
Military History
The World Crisis: 1911-1918, Part One: 1911-1914
Reader: Christian Rodska
'The World Crisis: 1911-1918'
Part One
Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With...£9.84 £19.69£24.50
Eyewitness: The BBC at War 1938 - 1945
Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith
A special compilation from Eyewitness, a unique history of Britain in the 20th Century, written by Joanna Bourke and narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith.Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating...
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Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk
On 26th May 1940, the British Admiralty launched Operation Dynamo. Of the 850 ships that sailed to Dunkirk, 235 were sunk by Germanaircraft or mines, but over 338,000 troops were rescued. This...
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Destiny in the Desert
Reader: Jonathan Dimbleby
This is a unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed...It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in...
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The Second World War: 4: Triumph and Tragedy
Reader: Christian Rodska
The concluding volume of Churchill’s war memoirs.
1943 marked the turning-point of the Second World War. With the United States now fully involved, and Stalingrad marking the turn of...£9.84 £19.69£24.50
All Hell Let Loose - Vol 1
Reader: Cameron Stewart
A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. This shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of...
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The American Civil War: Extracts from BBC Radio 4's 'America: Empire of Liberty'
Reader: Various
Ten episodes from David Reynolds' award-winning radio series, which trace the history of the American Civil War. This narrative tells the story of the American Civil War through the voices of...
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Vasily Grossman from the Front Line
Reader: Elliot Levey
Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front...
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The Second World War: Alone
Reader: Christian Rodska
‘After the first forty days we were alone, with victorious Germany and Italy engaged in a mortal attack upon us, with Soviet Russia a hostile neutral actively aiding Hitler, and Japan an...
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When the Children Came Home
In September 1939 Operation Pied Piper began. Its aim was to place the children of Britain’s industrial cities beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe. It was the largest mass evacuation of children...
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Churchill Confidential
Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith
Norman Brook was Cabinet Under Secretary during the Second World War and took personal, handwritten notes of the exchanges between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his ministers.
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Churchill's Bunker
Reader: John Telfer
‘This is the room from which I will direct the war,’ Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. And he did just that, as the distinguished Churchill biographer Richard...
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Last of the Few
After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt.
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The World Crisis: 1911-1918, Part Two: 1915
Reader: Christian Rodska
Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs...
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Churchill: A Life, Part 1 (1874-1918)
Reader: Christian Rodska
‘Churchill: A Life’ follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph. Here, the drama and excitement of his story are ever-present. Martin Gilbert gives us a vivid...
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The Children Who Fought Hitler
When Germany invaded in 1940, the British community in Ypres was threatened. Some children managed to escape. But those who didn'twere armed with their linguistic skills and local knowledge;...
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The Western Front
Reader: Richard Holmes
Military historian Richard Holmes turns his attention to the infamous First World War trench line, the Western Front. Of the nine million British and Dominion soldiers who were killed in action in...
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The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster
Reader: Christian Rodska
Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable, for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is...
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All Hell Let Loose - Vol 2
Reader: Cameron Stewart
Max Hastings' study of the greatest and most terrible event in history continues in the second part of his epic book. There are vivid descriptions of the tragedies and triumphs of a host of...
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We Die Alone
In March 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from Britain to Nazi-occupied Norway. Their mission was to organise and support the Norwegian resistance. They were betrayed, and...
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Dam Busters
Reader: James Holland
The night of 16 May 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission:...
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The Second World War: The Grand Alliance
Reader: Christian Rodska
Churchill’s history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is...
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Rosie’s War
This is the extraordinary true story of Rosemary Say and of her dramatic escape from a German-run internment camp in Occupied France. Written in Rosemary’s own words and completed by her...
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Operation Snakebite
Southern Afghanistan: reporter Stephen Grey is embedded with B Company, 2 Yorks, during Operation Snakebite. The mission: to take the stronghold of Musa Qala, deep in hostile Taliban territory.
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Vessel of Sadness
Italy, 1944, is the setting of one of the most convincing and quietly magnificent stories about man and war that has ever been written.
They didn’t know where they were going and they...£20.50











