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With theatres of conflict spread across the globe, the Second World War was a pivotal event in twentieth-century history whose aftershocks continue to reverberate throughout the world. Here is where you will find fascinating volumes on every aspect of the war, from ground campaigns to the battle in the air and from entanglements in the Atlantic to the brutal siege of Stalingrad. Dig deeper into the military history of a multi-faceted conflict with our authoritative selection.

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Our Best Books on the Second World War

SAS: Rogue Heroes
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SAS: Rogue Heroes
Ben Macintyre
£9.99
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Colditz
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Colditz
Ben Macintyre
£25.00   £22.99
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The Escape Artist
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The Escape Artist
Jonathan Freedland
£20.00   £17.99
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SAS
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SAS
Ben Macintyre
£9.99
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Operation Pedestal
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Operation Pedestal
Max Hastings
£9.99
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Command
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Command
Al Murray
£20.00   £17.99
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A Woman of No Importance
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A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell
£9.99
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Barbarossa
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Barbarossa
Jonathan Dimbleby
£9.99
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The Pathfinders
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The Pathfinders
Will Iredale
£9.99   £8.49
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The Nine
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The Nine
Gwen Strauss
£9.99
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The Crew
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The Crew
David Price
£9.99
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Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
£9.99
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The Bomber Mafia
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The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell
£10.99
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Agent Zigzag
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Agent Zigzag
Ben Macintyre
£12.99
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The Commanders
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The Commanders
Lloyd Clark
£25.00
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Sicily '43
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Sicily '43
James Holland
£9.99
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Spitfire
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Spitfire
John Nichol
£8.99
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Devil Dogs
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Devil Dogs
Saul David
£25.00   £22.99
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Red Devils
Red Devils
Mark Urban
£25.00 £22.99
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In Britain they were known as The Parachute Regiment, but their German enemies christened them The Red Devils. Circus performers, solicitors, gravediggers, family men. . . they were ordinary people who became wartime heroes.
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Our Best New & Coming Soon Second World War Books

1942: Britain at the Brink
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1942: Britain at the Brink
Taylor Downing
£12.99
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The Greatest Raid
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The Greatest Raid
Giles Whittell
£10.99
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Resistance
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Resistance
Halik Kochanski
£20.00
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The Battle for Normandy, 1944
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The Battle for Normandy, 1944
James Holland
£10.99
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The Women Behind the Few
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The Women Behind the Few
Sarah-Louise Miller
£25.00
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Babi Yar
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Babi Yar
A. Anatoli
£20.00
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Bomber Command
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Bomber Command
Roddy MacKenzie
£25.00
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The Windsors at War
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The Windsors at War
Alexander Larman
£25.00
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Hitler's Imperfect Victories
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Hitler's Imperfect Victories
Rex Bashford
£25.00
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The Secret Dome
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The Secret Dome
Ewan F Ward-Thomas
£25.00
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The Collaborators
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The Collaborators
Ian Buruma
£20.00
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Alanbrooke The Reluctant Warrior
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Alanbrooke The Reluctant Warrior
Julian Horrocks
£22.00
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War
Lynne Olson
£10.99
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Fatherland
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Fatherland
Burkhard Bilger
£25.00
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Cinderella Boys
Cinderella Boys
Leo McKinstry
£25.00
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The remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who rescued Britain from Hitler's U-boats and made Allied victory possible.
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Our selection of classic paperbacks

Operation Mincemeat
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Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre
£10.99
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The Crew
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The Crew
David Price
£9.99
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The Second World War
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The Second World War
Antony Beevor
£14.99
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All Hell Let Loose
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All Hell Let Loose
Max Hastings
£12.99
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Hitler
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Hitler
Ian Kershaw
£18.99
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The Battle of Britain
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The Battle of Britain
James Holland
£12.99
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Stalingrad
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Stalingrad
Antony Beevor
£11.99
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Wings on My Sleeve
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Wings on My Sleeve
Captain Eric Brown
£12.99
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First Light
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First Light
Geoffrey Wellum
£9.99
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Band Of Brothers
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Band Of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose
£8.99
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The Coming of the Third Reich
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The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans
£14.99
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Mussolini's War
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Mussolini's War
John Gooch
£16.99
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The Railway Man
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The Railway Man
Eric Lomax
£9.99
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World War Two
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World War Two
Norman Stone
£9.99
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The Rape of Nanking
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The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang
£14.99
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A Writer At War
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A Writer At War
Vasily Grossman
£10.99
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Luxury Editions & Giftbooks

World War II: Infographics
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World War II: Infographics
Jean Lopez
£19.99
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The Spitfire Pocket Manual
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The Spitfire Pocket Manual
Martin Robson
£9.99
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The World War II Book
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The World War II Book
DK
£19.99
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The Secret Agent's Pocket Manual
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The Secret Agent's Pocket Manual
Dr Stephen Bull
£9.99
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The Tank Commander Pocket Manual
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The Tank Commander Pocket Manual
R. Sheppard
£8.99
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World War II Map by Map
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World War II Map by Map
DK
£30.00
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Total War
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Total War
Kate Clements
£35.00
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A Seaman's Pocketbook
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A Seaman's Pocketbook
Brian Lavery
£8.99
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World War II from Above
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World War II from Above
Julian Thompson
£20.00
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The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual
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The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual
Martin Robson
£9.99
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SOE Manual
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SOE Manual
Special Operations Executive
£8.99
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Words of War: Fiction of the Second World War

All the Light We Cannot See
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
£9.99
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V2
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V2
Robert Harris
£9.99
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Catch-22
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
£9.99
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Atonement
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Atonement
Ian McEwan
£9.99
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Empire of the Sun
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Empire of the Sun
J. G. Ballard
£9.99
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
£9.99
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The Night Watch
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The Night Watch
Sarah Waters
£8.99
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Life and Fate
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Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
£10.99
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Our Friends in Berlin
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Our Friends in Berlin
Anthony Quinn
£8.99
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The Naked and the Dead
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The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
£9.99
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The Order of the Day
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The Order of the Day
Eric Vuillard
£8.99
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The Tin Drum
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The Tin Drum
Gunter Grass
£10.99
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The Bickford Fuse
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The Bickford Fuse
Andrey Kurkov
£10.99
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Sword of Honour
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Sword of Honour
Evelyn Waugh
£14.99
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Gravity's Rainbow
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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
£10.99
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Berlin Finale
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Berlin Finale
Heinz Rein
£10.99
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The Eagle Has Landed
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The Eagle Has Landed
Jack Higgins
£9.99
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Bomber
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Bomber
Len Deighton
£9.99
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