Originally released in 1962 this is a view of WW2 not usually seen, there are many fictional books out there about fighting and war, there are lots of books now written by ex SAS soldiers giving a realism to their tales. This book from Alan White is what feels a very personal and harro...
Helen Yendall has had dozens of short stories and a serial published in women’s magazines over the past twenty years and now writes female-focused WW2 novels. She’s a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association.She studied English and German at Leeds University and has worked in a varie...
And, as befits a story set in the small, cramped world of a cipher unit, where everything is a secret and everyone lives in each other’s pocket, throughout there is a sense of claustrophobia and paranoia quite at odds with the increasingly cosy way that current WW2 novels portray Britain...
Colonel Corso also mentions in his book other pre-WW2 experiments that allude to the potential of ordinary human science being capable of creating UFO-type crafts. “If the magnetic field theory experiments carried out by engineers and electrical energy pioneers Paul Biefeld and Townsend Brown in ...
The story follows the friends Grace and Bea, two young women who were very brave in the way they went about thwarting the German soldiers. It is the young women’s story along with their family and friends and coworkers. And it is a story about the power of books. ...
All Quiet on the Western Front takes us to a time of war, and into the minds of the German soldiers during World War 1. First there was the enthusiastic delight in fighting for and defending one’s Nation and beliefs, however as the full swing of the war starts to seep in, we see ...
whose written highly acclaimed WW2 history books on Stalingrad and the Russian conflict is not fluent in Russian – nor is he born into a German or Spanish hertitage, yet he’s written some highly acclaimed military history books on them. I’m also pretty sure the English historian Sir Ian...
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which explored the lives of factory workers – particularly women – during WW2. Elizabeth Bowen also praised Wilenski’sTable Twoin a piece inThe Tatlerin 1942, highlighting the‘subtle characterisation’and the ‘study of female psychology under wartime Ministry conditions’, as mentioned by Elizabet...
The Road To The Nile: A Story Of Travel In The Western Desert And The Army Of The Nile by Wilson MacArthur (1941) is a cheerfully written story of a trip in an un-modified 1938 Standard Twelve (which the author named 'The Black Beetle') through Northern Africa, starting at Benghazi, ...