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The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known wealth and privileges, was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness.

I got this one as a freebie for my Kindle. Its as good as it looks and gives a really good at what others suffered in that arena.

 

Newly updated with historical records not available when the first edition was done. Not a lot available in English on the Soviet Air force so this could become the new standard work.

Red Phoenix Rising

 

Amazon.com: INTO THE VALLY: The Valentine Tank and Derivatives 1938 - 1960 (9788361421368): Dick Taylor: Books

I'm looking forward to seeing this one . My brother contributed a few of my Dad's photos re: the Valentine tanks.

 

There's a free old-fashioned WW2 thriller on Kindle today:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Farewell-Leicester-Square-ebook/dp/B007LO5AQ2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1332233160&sr=8-2
"A fast-paced novel in the tradition of Jack Higgins, Alistair MacLean and Alexander Fullerton."

 

Product Description
During the darkest days of the Second World War, the Allies listened intently to the messages of the enemy. Every whisper built a picture of the threat to come - weapons that were terrifying in their murderous capabilities. Target London is the dramatic tale of the inception of the German V-weapons, the Allies' epic race to discover the truth about them and the rockets' effects on the streets of London. Investigative historian Christy Campbell brilliantly interweaves the many strands of this gripping episode. At the heart of this tale is London - the target of Nazi Germany's plan to crush British morale.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408702924/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

 

Product Description
During the darkest days of the Second World War, the Allies listened intently to the messages of the enemy. Every whisper built a picture of the threat to come - weapons that were terrifying in their murderous capabilities. Target London is the dramatic tale of the inception of the German V-weapons, the Allies' epic race to discover the truth about them and the rockets' effects on the streets of London. Investigative historian Christy Campbell brilliantly interweaves the many strands of this gripping episode. At the heart of this tale is London - the target of Nazi Germany's plan to crush British morale.

Target London: Under attack from the V-weapons during WWII: Amazon.co.uk: Christy Campbell: Books

On my wishlist.

 

Ben Macintyre's new book out tomorrow.

He was on the Andrew Marr show yesterday.

BBC News - D-Day double crossing

His earlier work is very enjoyable and I'm sure Double Cross will be to the same standard.

 

A new publisher has shown up called Fonthill Books with some interesting titles in the offing.
Their website is set to launch April 1. (Here's hoping this isn't a joke!): HOME - Fonthill Media

Some of their titles have already shown up on amazon however including some of interest to people on this site I'm sure including a title on the Westland Whirlwind, a new book by Brian Cull on the air war in the Aegean (Amazon.com: Fighters over the Aegean: Hurricanes over Crete, Spitfires over Kos, Beaufighters over the Aegean 1943 - 44 (9781781550441): Brian Cull: Books)
and this one for the 1940's crowd, Amazon.com: The Merchantmen in Action: Evacuations and Landings by Merchant Ships in the Second World War (9781781550458): Roy V Martin: Books
Looking forward to seeing and buying some of their work.

 

Savage Continent - Europe in the Aftermath of WWII
Keith Lowe
Penguin-Viking
ISBN 978-0-670-91746-4
£25

5th April 2012

This book makes fascinating reading and opens your eyes to the political events in Europe since WWII - it relates the ethnic cleansing that took place from France to Russia with few European nations immune from ethnic or political revenge, reading it also points to wounds that are possibly festering still as well as showing the sources of recent conflicts.

I recommend this highly.

 

For Kindle users
Amazon have Sean Longden's book DUNKIRK the men who where left behind for only £0.99

 

For Kindle/i-Pad/i-Phone/etc users

Amazon are now offering my book
(WW1 subject, I know, but a couple
of the lads served in WW2 too )

"Up The Hammers!" The Story Of The
West Ham Battalion in the Great War

You can read a preview on Amazon,
the first five illustrated chapters...

 

Saw this in Tesco today looks good. http://www.davidblakeley.co.uk/Site/HOME_1.html

 

Due June 2012 from Osprey

 

Saw this in Tesco today looks good. http://www.davidblakeley.co.uk/Site/HOME.html

That link is already broken...

 

That link is already broken...
Cheers just checked and changed it.

 

Clare Mulley's new biography of Christine Granville - The Spy Who Loved
is published by Macmillan on 5th July

The Spy Who Loved: The secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of WWII: Amazon.co.uk: Clare Mulley: Books

 

Mission 101 The untold story of SOE and the Second World War in Ethiopia
Duncan McNab
The History Press

August 2012

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mission-101-Duncan-Mcnab/dp/0752482696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1337166847&sr=8-2


Cloak of Enemies : SOE Enemies at Home and the Cockleshell Heroes
Tom Keene
The History Press


August 2012

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cloak-Enemies-Churchills-Cockleshell-Heroes/dp/075247975X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337166911&sr=1-1

 

British Army Communications in the Second World War - Continuum

Could be interesting but please let them release a paperback!

The German Fallschirmtruppe 1936-41: Its Genesis and Employment in the First Campaigns of the Wehrmacht: Amazon.ca: Karl-Heinz Golla: Books

English translation from Helion. Says Sept but who knows with them?

 

TANKOGRAD Publishing - Verlag Jochen Vollert - Militärfahrzeug: British Military Trucks of World War 2
Coming in June from Tankograd. Looks like the new go to for British trucks of WW2

 

In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead.

Inferno is a searing account of terrifying destruction: of how and why the Allies dropped a hail of high-explosive and incendiary bombs; of blizzards of sparks, hurricane-force winds and 800-degree temperatures; of survivors cowering in basements or struggling along melting streets; of a city and its people near annihilated from above.

Inferno is an epic story of human devastation and survival against impossible odds.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inferno-The-Devastation-Hamburg-1943/dp/0241964245/ref=zg_bsnr_271411_54




Could be a worthwhile read. The last book I read on this subject was Middlebrook's.