20th Century History

THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC

John Costello & Terry Hughes
THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
The Epic Story of Britain's Wartime Fight for Survival
352 pages paperback (Fontana, 1980)
Condition: has very faded pages.

BLITZ-KRIEG

Len Deighton
BLITZ-KRIEG: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk
The surprising and dramatic account of all that contributed to the military feat of Whitsun 1940, and brought Manstein, Guderian and Rommel into world history.
320 pages hardback (BCA/Jonathan Cape, 1979)
Condition: BCA edition has slightly faded page edges and owner's signature

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Martin Gilbert
WINSTON CHURCHILL: The Wilderness Years
BCA edition published in association with ITV series, covers the ten remarkable years up to the Second World War during which Churchill reamined alone and abused in the political wilderness.
279 pages hardback (Macmillan/BCA, 1981)
Condition: good with slightly faded top page edges, good d/w and owner's signature.

BLOCKADE

Eric Morris
BLOCKADE: Berlin & The Cold War
Morris relates the whole series of events from the partition of Germany in 1945, through the Blockade of 1948, the miracle of logistics known as the Berlin Airlift to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and subsequent Cold War years.
278 pages hardback (Readers' Union, 1974)
Condition: Victorian & Modern History Book club edition. Has slightly dust-stained top page edges with some shelf-wear on back d/w

THE GOEBBELS DIARIES

Hugh Trevor-Roper
THE GOEBBELS DIARIES
Covering the last days of the Third Reich, here, with an often mordaunt wit, a pervers pride and more than a hin tof gallows humour, is the unforgettable picture of the might of the Allied victors as seen from the wrong end of the gun.
368 pages hardback (BCA/Seckar & Warburg, 1978)
Condition: BCA edition has dust-stained page edges and owner's signature

THE GOVERNANCE OF BRITAIN

Harold Wilson
THE GOVERNANCE OF BRITAIN
Hardback (Weidenfeld & Nicholson/Michael Joseph, 1976)
Condition: has dust-stained top page edges and owner's signature

THE WARSAW RISING

Gunther Deschner

THE WARSAW RISING

A volume of the Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II. In August 1914, as Russian forces approached Warsaw, the Poles rose with enthusiasm to liberate their capital city from the German oppression. They were confonted by a force of SS thugs and convicts, using methods of appalling brutality. After two months of heroic resistance they surrendered. Could the Russians have intervened to prevent the disaster?

157 pages paperback (Pan, 1972)

Condition: has worn cover and page edges