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  The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World - by Jonathan Freedland

  £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529369069 | ISBN 10: 1529369061

  THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK   ‘Excellent... thrilling... Freedland’s book is rich in the kind of details that haunt you long after you have turned the last page’ Sunday Times  Anne Frank. Primo Levi. Osk ... more

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  These Wonderful Rumours! A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 - by May Smith

  £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844088119 | ISBN 10: 1844088111

  'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.  May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But ... more

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  To End All Wars: A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War - by Adam Hochschild

  £16.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780330447447 | ISBN 10: 0330447440

  In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister wh ... more

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  Bluebird: A Memoir - by Vesna Maric

  £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847081193 | ISBN 10: 1847081193

  Vesna Maric was a typical sixteen year old when the Bosnian war started. As school broke up, shelling began. Snipers appeared in the cities and suddenly a trip to a cafe or an illicit cigarette became dangerous, impossible things. Maric and her siste ... more

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  Don't Shoot the Clowns: Taking a circus to the children of Iraq - by Jo Wilding

  £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456483 | ISBN 10: 1904456480

  'Don't shoot the clowns!' As a circus performer in a war zone these are the fist words you need to know in English and Arabic, especially if you are trying to help wounded civilians in a city under siege. Don't Shoot the Clowns is Jo Wilding's accoun ... more

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