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Darling monster: the letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952

By Cooper, Diana, 1892-1986, author
Hardback. English.
Published London: Chatto & Windus, 2013
Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, society darling, an actress of stage and early screen. When she married the politician Duff Cooper, they became the...
Sisters

By Mortimer, Barbara, 1944- author
Book. English.
Published London: Arrow Books, 2013
On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school...
Gardens of stone

By Grady, Stephen, author
Book. English.
Published London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013
September 1939, Nieppe, Northern France. 14-year-old Stephen is living with his family. Stephen and his friend Marcel collect souvenirs from strafed convoys...
Auschwitz: a British POW's eyewitness account

By Rushton, Colin, author
Paperback. English.
Published Chichester: Summersdale, 2013
Revised edition
In 1942 the young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The German name for the...
These wonderful rumours!: a young schoolteacher's wartime diaries, 1939-1945

By Smith, May
Hardback. English.
Published London: Virago, 2012
'These Wonderful Rumours!' gives a unique and surprising insight into life on the Home Front. We gain a new understanding of how the people of Britain...
The secret listeners: how the Y Service intercepted German codes for Bletchley Park

By McKay, Sinclair
Book. English.
Published London: Aurum, 2012
'The Secret Listeners' tells the story of the usually very young men and women who were sent to farflung outposts to locate and monitor endless streams...
We remember the Blitz

Paperback. English.
Published [London?]: Ebury, 2012
Filled with moving but often funny memories, 'We Remember the Blitz' is a celebration of the British spirit, and clearly shows that the battle for Britain...
Doodlebugs, gas masks & gum: children's voices from the Second World War

By Rex, Christina
Paperback. English.
Published Stroud: Amberley, 2008
From Dunkirk to D-Day, through Doodlebugs to Victory, there was hardly a dull moment and remarkably little fear for children as they learned, collected...
Forgotten voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain

By Levine, Joshua, 1970-
Paperback. English.
Published London: Ebury, 2007
Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, this book brings together voices from both sides of the Blitz and the Battle...
Survivor of the long march: five years as a PoW, 1940-1945

By Waite, Charles
Book. English.
Published Stroud: Spellmount, 2012
Private Charles Waite was captured by German soliders in May 1940 and didn't regain freedom until April 1945 when he was rescued by Americans near Berlin...
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