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By: Andre Hue

ISBN: 9780141042800
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Andre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to unite resistance forces in Brittany and paralyze local German troops during the Allied invasion.


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By: James Goodson

ISBN: 9780141042862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Anglo-American James Goodson's war began on Sept 3rd 1939, when the SS Athenia was torpedoed and sank off the Hebrides. Surviving the sinking and distinguishing himself rescuing survivors, Goodson signed on with the RAF. In this memoir, he presents full descriptions of aerial dogfights as well as the stories of others of the heroic 'few'.


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By: Fitzroy Maclean

ISBN: 9780141042848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Fitztroy Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. This book presents his adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.


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By: R.V. Jones

ISBN: 9780141042824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Details how Britain stealthily stole the war from under the Germans' noses by outsmarting their intelligence at every turn. This book talks about the 'battle of the beams'; detecting and defeating flying bombs; using chaff to confuse radar; and, many other ingenious ideas and devices.


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By: Heinz Guderian

ISBN: 9780141042855
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Heinz Guderian - master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank warfare - commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged across Poland in 1939. This book presents an account of one of the most effective fighting force in modern history by the man who commanded it.


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By: George Psychoundakis

ISBN: 9780141043340
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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George Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance and took on the crucial job of war-time runner. This book presents an account of George's activities across mountainous terrain, come blazing summer or freezing winter.


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By: Nicholas Monsarrat

ISBN: 9780141042831
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.