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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park:

The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There
Sinclair McKay
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...
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park:

Stranger in the House

Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War
Julie Summers
'It is as if I have been waiting for someone to ask me these questions for almost the whole of my life.' From 1945, more than four million...
Stranger in the House

Forgotten Voices of the Great War

Max Arthur
In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at...
Forgotten Voices of the Great War

The Good Soldiers

David Finkel
In January 2007, the young and optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as part of the surge....
The Good Soldiers

Tracing Your Army Ancestors

Simon Fowler
Provides a comprehensive introduction to researching army history. This book shows how to trace the careers of individual soldiers from 1760. It explains army organisation and regimental histories...
Tracing Your Army Ancestors

Finest Years

Churchill as Warlord 1940-45
Sir Max Hastings

The Storm of War

A New History of the Second World War
Andrew Roberts

The Defence of the Realm

The Authorized History of MI5
Christopher Andrews

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