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Original daily express war map of europe, it was published in the early part of the war known as the phoney warsend message for p&p prices and any other info read moreyou can pay by paypal or uk sterling cheque it measures when opened out inches x inches (about 101cm x 76cm)i can post by royal mail (uk only)in decent condition with very minor wear, no pin holes or tape marks so never been stuck on a wall
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Hundreds of pictures of war and afterbattlefieldsof then and now [that is twenty years after the warwar magazines showing places in france with bomb damage then 20 years after with some remedial workthey were issued in weekly partsgood condition for their age
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The author was recruited into the squadron at the outset of the second world war, and continued a distinguished career in the years after the warin good condition, there is one medium tear to the top of the dust jacketoxfam bookshop lower petergate a very nice signed copy of this work charting the history of no99 squadron of the royal air force, from 197 tosee oxfam website for delivery information read morewritten with the support of squadron association members, the author has collected individual stories to capture the flavour of past eras and events, such as the early days of the air force during the first world war, the bomber attacks of and the berlin airlift ofthe book has been signed by the author with an inscription
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Osprey's examination of the british cavalry during the english civil war ()some turned out for the king, some for parliament, and so the war startedthis book examines how the cavalry soldiers of expected to fight the civil wars, and how experience changed their ideasin march , king charles i, believing that parliament had gone too far when it issued the grand remonstrace, moved to arrest john pym and four other leadersthat summer parliament, fearing military action, tried to seize control of the army by issuing orders for soldiers to report to parliamentary, rather than royal, representativesthe king countered by ordering the bill ignored and raised his own army
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Simon wiesenthal spent four and a half years in mauthausen concentration camp during world war iiwith the exception of his wife, all his immediate family were exterminated, and he himself ended the war a living skeletonsince then, he has achieved international reknown for his tireless and successful tracking down of nazi war criminals, including notorious figures such as eichmann, the 'desk murderer' who masterminded hitler's final solution; stangl the overlord of treblinka; and the mengele of auschwitz, the dreaded 'angel of death&aposto this day his work continues, his motivation simply expressed in the words: 'justice, not vengeance&aposthis work provides an account of wiesenthal's inspired detective work
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This is the story of these devastating three decades of war, through the eyes of the men who were shaped by the battles of world war i and came to command a world on the brink of disaster decades lateroxfam books & music romsey 3 disc box set featuring roosevelt, churchill, stalin and hilter disc 1 - the rising tide, the storm explodes, disc 2 - trial by fire, the price of glory, disc 3 never surrender, peace at last with just over 20 years separating the two most cataclysmic conflicts of the twentieth century wwi and wwii many historians argue that they were not separate wars, but one bloody continuum that first gripped the people of europe but eventually spread across the entire globedouglas macarthurbefore they were giants, they were infantrymen and privates in the 'war to end all wars'and so it happens that the most iconic figures of wwii, the household names that we associate with either battlefield glory or murderous fascism, were themselves caught up in both conflictscharles de gaullebenito mussolininumber of discs: 5 region 0 language: english 300 minutes running time see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Together they must defeat wotan's terrifying war machinesthis release includes restored footage unseen since , a clip from 'blue peter' in the same year with the public unveiling of a war machine and a feature on how the story was put back together from the source materialwhen dodo is hypnotised along with wotan's controller professor brett, the doctor finds help in the form of polly, brett's secretary, and able seaman ben jacksonsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam music shop byres road the doctor and dodo arrive in london in swinging , only to discover a plot to use the computer wotan (housed in the post office tower) to take over the world
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A triumph' sunday times'harrowing, original, unforgettable' independent, the closing months of the warthe ghost road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the first world waras rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, prior and owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generationthe regeneration trilogy:regenerationthe eye in the doorthe ghost road see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brigg the booker prize-winning final novel in pat barker's classic 'regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of the silence of the girls'an extraordinary tour de forcearmy psychiatrist william rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly billy prior, who is about to return to combat in france with young poet wilfred owenone of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century british fiction' jonathan coe'powerful, deeply moving
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Indeed, the invasion on april 9th saw the first use of airborne troops in the war and was also one of the very few amphibious operations undertaken by the germans during the second world waras in niall's previous books, detailed research has been carried out using official reports, war diaries and veterans' accounts, supported by photographs and colour mapsthis includes such actions as the sinking of hms glowworm and hms glorious, the gladiators on the frozen lakes and maurice force, the sacrifice of the territorial battalions at tretten and the independent companies, to name but a fewvolume 1 focuses on the prelude to and early phases of the german invasion and allied responsethe author provides a detailed account of the german invasion and the allied reaction, including the land, sea and air battlesit is hoped that niall cherry's new two-volume work covering the allied intervention in norway will fill this significant gapsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop raeburn place condition as newbooks on the events of the early months of are dominated by the desperate fighting undertaken by the british expeditionary force in northern france and belgium following the german invasion of may 10th and it is often overlooked that prior to this another british expeditionary force was involved in fierce fighting in norway
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Through collaboration with the dowager queen elizabeth woodville, margaret agrees a betrothal between henry and elizabeth's daughter, thereby uniting the families and resolving the cousins war once and for all by founding of the tudor dynastyoxfam shop colne road the second book in philippa's stunning new series, the cousins war, brings to life the story of margaret beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - the white queen - but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of the war of the rosessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe red queen tells the story of the child-bride of edmund tudor, who, although widowed in her early teens, uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of york under the guise of loyal friend and servant, undermine the support for richard iii and ultimately ensure that her only son, henry tudor, triumphs as king of england
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The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the battle of the atlantic and the war in north africabut, though plenty has been written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction  from robert harris and ian mcewan to andrew hodges' biography of turing what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? what was life like for them an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military? sinclair mckay's book is the first history for the general reader of life at bletchley park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed angus wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) of a youthful roy jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other's workthis country house in the buckinghamshire countryside was home to britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like alan turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology  indeed, the birth of modern computingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham bletchley park was where one of the war's most famous  and crucial  achievements was made: the cracking of germany's enigma code in which its most important military communications were couched
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While other books examine the war between the states from a political, tactical, or military perspective, these books focus on the day-to-day life and the human experience of the men themselves, the union and confederate soldiers who enlisted and often fought to the death for their beliefs and those of their home regions of the young united statesoxfam bookshop brighton as dawned, the civil war, the conflict that had started the year before and that most americans thought would last only a few months, showed no signs of endingthis book provides a glimpse at the lives, weapons, and equipment of these soldiers through a collection of artifacts and exacting reproductionsillustrated with full-color photography and historical documents, engagingly written and thoroughly explained, these books are the perfect addition to children's and adults' library collections, school libraries, and personal libraries of interested readers and history lovers of all ageswithin a year, thousands of these courageous men had lost their lives on bloody battlefields or died in disease-ridden encampmentshundreds of thousands of men across the divided nation enlisted in state volunteer regiments that poured into the sprawling military camps around washington, dc, richmond, virginia, and other strategic locationssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square in this comprehensive history, john keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all timein knowledgable, perceptive analysis of the airborne battle of crete, the carrier battle of midway, the tank battle of falaise, the city battle of berlin, and the amphibious battle of okinawa, keegan illuminates the strategic dilemmas faced by the leaders and the consequences of their decisions on the fighting men and the course of the war as a wholehe focuses on five crucial battles and offers new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfaresee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Against the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries britain and france would ruleit explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the arabs and the jews, and ultimately led to war between the british and the french in and between the arabs and the jews inlawrence, winston churchill and charles de gaulle, a line in the sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when britain and france ruled the middle eastthe creation of britain's 'mandates' of palestine, transjordan and iraq, and france's in lebanon and syria, made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following thirty yearsoxfam books & music marlborough in , in the middle of the first world war, two men secretly agreed to divide the middle east between themin , after many years of intrigue and espionage, britain finally succeeded in ousting france from lebanon and syria, and hoped that, having done so, it would be able to cling on to palestinesir mark sykes was a visionary politician; françois georges-picot a diplomat with a grudgeterritory north of that stark line would go to france; land south of it, to britainsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including tthe deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the entente cordiale, drew a line in the sand from the mediterranean to the persian frontierusing newly declassified papers from the british and french archives, james barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life, and reveals, for the first time, the stunning way in which the french finally got their revenge
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham set in the years to , an ice cream war follows the fortunes of two english brothers who enlist and fight in german east africacontrasting the vibrant chaos of east africa with the quiet gentility of edwardian england, the novel tracks the brothers' very different but equally tragic experiences in the war and the pressures and sorrows of those they leave at homesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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As the war rages on, the two women's lives become intertwined - bringing love and friendship to bothoxfam bookshop st albans from the deserts of north africa, to the waters of scotland, the second world war touches the lives of two women from two very different worldsin alexandria, fran finds her world turned upside down as rommel's forces advance on the idyllic shores of egyptthe life of luxury and stability that she is used to is taken away as she finds herself having to deal with loss, heartache and political uncertaintysee oxfam website for delivery information read moremeanwhile, on the firth of clyde, catriona struggles between her quiet rural life and her dreams of nursing injured servicemen on the front lines
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Four paper cover sewn bound copies which together comprise a set of the original choral scores for the first performance of the war requiemalso includes: leaflet advertising the coventry cathedral festival with the announcement of the first performance of the war requiem, with galina vishnevskaya listed as soprano soloist, although in the event heather harper sang the premierecover stamp states: boosey and hawkes hire library and the copyright isbbc booklet published in with the full text of the requiem and a short programme note by alec robertson see oxfam website for delivery information read moreplease note: this is not the full vocal score, although photocopies of the solo parts are folded in
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It is racism that has undermined the war on poverty, and america must come to terms with this history if there is to be any hope of addressing welfare reform todayoxfam bookshop hove thirty years after lyndon johnson declared a war on poverty, the united states still lags behind most western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care supportturning to lyndon johnson's "unconditional war on poverty," she contends that though anti-poverty programs for job training, community action, health care, housing, and education have accomplished much, they have not been fully realized because they became inextricably intertwined with the civil rights movement of the s, which triggered a white backlashdrawing on extensive primary research, quadagno shows, for instance, how roosevelt, in need of support from southern congressmen, excluded african americans from the core programs of the social security actthe "american creed" of liberty, justice, and equality clashed with a history of active racial discrimination, says quadagnoin the s, the united states embarked on a journey to resolve the "american dilemmafrom reconstruction to lyndon johnson and beyond, quadagno reveals how american social policy has continually foundered on issues of raceat the same time, affirmative action clashed openly with organized labor, and equal housing raised protests from the white suburban middle-class, who didn't want their neighborhoods integratedhe realized that his grand plan for welfare reform, the family assistance plan, threatened to undermine wages in the south and alienate the republican party's new constituency-white, southern democrats-and therefore dropped itin the color of welfare, jill quadagno takes exception to these claims, placing race at the centre of the "american dilemma," as swedish economist gunnar myrdal did half a century agothe color of welfare reveals the root cause of this failure-the inability to address racial inequalityjob training programs, for instance, became affirmative action programs, programs to improve housing became programs to integrate housing, programs that began as community action to upgrade the quality of life in the cities were taken over by local civil rights groupssee oxfam website for delivery information read morequadagno shows that nixon, who initially supported many of johnson's programs, eventually caught on that the white middle class was disenchanted" yet instead of finally instituting full democratic rights for all its citizens, the policies enacted in that turbulent decade failed dismallythis shift of emphasis eventually alienated white, working-class americans, who had some of the same needs-for health care, subsidized housing, and job training opportunities-but who got very little from these programssome critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within the working class
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Edmunds using newsreel footage this documentary follows all the major battles and incidents of the three years of civil war in spainthe conflict started when the military garrisons of seventeen spanish cities rose in rebellion to the communist government, and escalated when left wing sympathisers joined the war on the side of the communists while hitler aided the right wing government in waitingoxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The story begins when the newly married couple arrive in romania at the start of world war twothe story then follows their adventures and life throughout the war and their subsequent flights from the countries around the balkans and the eastern mediterranian to escape the nazisno damage to discsoxfam books & music wells good conditionmoderate wear to slipcasesee oxfam website for delivery information read morelong-term collaborators kenneth brannagh and emma thompson star in this epic wartime drama (which cost the bbc an estimated 7 million pounds)
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Oxfam shop hebden bridge two episodes from the crime series set on the south coast of britain during the second world warin 'the german woman' detective chief superintendent christopher foyle (michael kitchen) has his request to join the war effort refused by a superior who believes his talents will be better used on the home frontin 'the white feather' foyle investigates a pro-hitler organisation known as the friday club and soon comes across a nest of suspicious activity centred on the white feather hotelsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreworking with driver sam stewart (honeysuckle weeks) and assistant paul milner (anthony howell), foyle soon finds himself investigating the murder of the local magistrate's german wife
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Oxfam shop keswick all twelve episodes from the american tv mini-series starring robert mitchum and jane seymour and set during the aftermath of the attack on pearl harbour and the beginning of world war iithe henry family cope with the impact of the war in addition to domestic troubles, with father captain victor 'pug' henry (mitchum) trying to placate his unfaithful wife rhoda (polly bergen) who is demanding a divorcethe episodes are: 'december ', 'january - may ', 'may 26 - july ', 'november 2 - december ', 'december - april ', 'april - july ', 'november - may ', 'may - june ', 'june 22 - october ', 'october - march ' and 'april 12 - august 'meanwhile, victor's sons warren (michael woods) and byron (hart bochner) are stationed on naval vessels whilst byron's wife natalie (seymour) and their son louis (rhett creighton) try to flee italysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop didsbury this large volume - transvaal in war and peace provides an early history of the boers and the causes of the wargilt edging to pages condition: goodspine and corners wornincludes detailed descriptions of the main areas of the transvaal and the natural resources mined there for example; the diamond mines of kimberley and the gold mines of johannesburgsee oxfam website for delivery information read morevirtue and company, limitedbinding tight and pages clean internally
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This is a original complete set of volumes 1 and 2 of war illustrated paper, published as the war was happening on a week by week account, intresting pages showing the british naval fleet and the reader has crossed out ships sunk up to that date, can post anywhere at buyers exspense read more
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Includes 25 names the war was known by, personal quirks of robert eoxfam bookshop cheltenham wonderfully entertaining look at some intriguing oddities, unusual incidents, and colorful personalities connected with the civil warlee and stonewall jackson, and moresee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop preston a facsimile reproduction of a collection of motoring magazines, each drawn and scripted by hand by prisoners of war in muhlberg, germany, during the second world warthe book is filled with humour, compassion, enthusiasm and authoritybikes and cars that are no longer produced, but with names that are legend are all recalledsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecontaining details of motoring adventures before the war, road tests of cars and motor cycles, a speculative motor show, advertisements, editorial comment and even a letters page nostalgically reflecting pre-war lifethe drawings and sketches are both graphic and realistic,the text full of wit and highly credible
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Two volumes: from the origins of the war to verdun and the somme the widening war to remembrance and aftermath pages: xxxviii, 347 + frontispiece + 12 plates (printed both sides); xx, + frontispiece + 8 plates (printed both sides) books are sent by registered post using postnl read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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The alex cross series proves ita fabulous read''another winner for alex cross and the great jthe best alex cross yet?here's what the fans say:'it's been a while since i last read a james patterson alex cross novel and i had forgotten what a good series this is''target: alex cross is from page 1 till the last one a warm bed for every thriller loverbut what follows will plunge the country into chaos, and draw cross into the most important case of his lifetarget: alex crossthe new president calls on cross to lead an unparalleled fbi investigation to help capture america's most wanted criminaltarget: head of statealex cross and his family join men and women from across the nation lining the streets of washington, dc to mourn the unexpected death of the president''i've been following alex cross since along came a spider and i'm not ready for his story to end yet! this was a fast, fun ride and it did not disappoint' lee child, international bestselling author of the jack reacher seriesfrom the author of sunday times noi thoroughly enjoyed this and recommend it to allsnuggling down, on a rainy day, and this book in your hands, you'll forget the rest of the world1 bestseller the president is missing!' 'once again, the author produces a very readable bookit is fast moving and the plot develops at a real paceoxfam shop colne road 'no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what jim has, in spadesas chief of detectives, alex's wife bree stone faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose her jobtarget: united states cabinetwith the country still in shock, the assassination of a prominent senator strikes another devastating blow to the heart of the nation's capitalwhere's number 27??? i want it now' see oxfam website for delivery information read more''multiple story lines woven into one keeps you interested and will make you hate yourself for finishing this book in one go
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Oxfam bookshop aberystwyth on june 11th , the desert war beganit lasted 3 years and secured for the allies the vital middle east oil supplies, without which they may have lost the warsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Hardback - undated (diary of the war cm x 22 cmsir john hammerton (editor) - the second great war - a standard history: 9 volume set - the waverley book company ltdare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikivolume pages - volume pages - volume pages - volume pages - volume pages - volume pages - volume pages - volume pages - volume pages - this set is in good condition - clean bright contents - no inscriptions - each book contains numerous illustrations from different areas of the conflict - each book also contains a small number of unusual colour-enhanced illustrations, making it an uncommon set - overall, a very nice collector's setplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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