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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > Second World War fiction

The Iron Age (Paperback): Arja Kajermo The Iron Age (Paperback)
Arja Kajermo
R248 R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Save R22 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Iron Age is part-coming-of-age novel, and part-fairy-tale told from the perspective of a young girl growing up in the poverty of post-war Finland. On her family's austere farm, the Girl learns stories and fables of the world around her - of Miina, their sleeping neighbour; how people get depressed if pine trees grow too close to the house; that you should never turn away a witch at the door; and why her father was unlucky not to die in the war. The family crosses from Finland to Sweden, from a familiar language to a strange one, from one unfriendly home to another. The Girl, mute but watchful, weaves a picture of her violent father, resilient mother and strangely resourceful brothers. In this darkly funny debut, with illustrations throughout, folk tales and traditional custom clash with economic reality, from rural Finland to urban Stockholm.

The Night Before Morning (Paperback): Alistair Moffat The Night Before Morning (Paperback)
Alistair Moffat
R305 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack. In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could change the course of history. The journal he discovers, by a young soldier, David Erskine, records an extraordinary story. When the Allies drive the Germans out of France and victory seems imminent, Erskine is in Antwerp, where he witnesses a world-changing reversal of fortune. From a high vantage point, he watches a huge mushroom cloud rise over London: an atomic bomb has been detonated by the Germans in a last desperate roll of the dice. Captor becomes captive and Erskine is held as a POW in his own land. As the brutal grip of the occupying forces tightens, he is determined to join the resistance. A daring escape leads him and his fiancee Katie on a breathless chase to the university town of St Andrews, where the Germans have established a secret research laboratory. When it becomes clear what its purpose is, David, Katie and their small, trusted band must adopt a desperate and audacious plan to thwart Nazi domination . . .

A Tapecaria de Emma (Portuguese, Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Isobel Blackthorn A Tapecaria de Emma (Portuguese, Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Isobel Blackthorn
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cesare - A Novel of War-Torn Berlin (Hardcover): Jerome Charyn Cesare - A Novel of War-Torn Berlin (Hardcover)
Jerome Charyn
R694 R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he loves "Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words. . . . [Cesare is] provocative, stimulating and deeply satisfying." -Washington Post On a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, German military intelligence. Canaris adopts the young man and dubs him "Cesare" after the character in the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for his ability to break through any barrier as he eliminates the Abwehr's enemies. Canaris is a man of contradictions who, while serving the regime, seeks to undermine the Nazis and helps Cesare hide Berlin's Jews from the Gestapo. But the Nazis will lure many to Theresienstadt, a phony paradise in Czechoslovakia with sham restaurants, novelty shops, and bakeries, a cruel ghetto and way station to Auschwitz. When the woman Cesare loves, a member of the Jewish underground, is captured and sent there, Cesare must find a way to rescue her. Cesare is a literary thriller and a love story born of the horrors of a country whose culture has died, whose history has been warped, and whose soul has disappeared. Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction. Among other honors, he has received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and his novels have been selected as finalists for the Firecracker Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn lives in New York.

The Children's Block - Based on a True Story by an Auschwitz Survivor (Paperback): Otto B Kraus The Children's Block - Based on a True Story by an Auschwitz Survivor (Paperback)
Otto B Kraus 2
R400 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times even eight. There was so little space on the berth that when one of us wanted to ease his hip, we all had to turn in a tangle of legs and chests and hollow bellies as if we were one many-limbed creature, a Hindu god or a centipede. We grow intimate not only in body but also in mind because we knew that though we were not born of one womb, we would certainly die together.'

Alex Ehren is poet, a prisoner and a teacher in block 31 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the children’s block. He spends his days trying to survive while illegally giving lessons to his young charges while shielding them as best he can from the impossible horrors of the camp. But trying to teach the children is not the only illicit activity that Alex is in

volved in. Alex is keeping a diary…

Originally published as THE PAINTED WALL, Otto Kraus’s autobiographical novel, tells the true story of 500 Jewish children who lived in the Czech Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September 1943 and June 1944.

Magnus (Paperback): Sylvie Germain Magnus (Paperback)
Sylvie Germain; Translated by Christine Donougher
R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Magnus is a deeply moving and enigmatic novel about the Holocaust. Magnus is a man searching for his own identity, attempting to piece together the complex puzzle of his life. But his true story turns out to be closer to a painting by Edward Munch than the romantic tale of family heroism and self-sacrifice on which he was nurtured by the woman he believed was his mother. In Magnus, Sylvie Germain uses imagination and intuition to unlock the enigma of human life and confer on history the power of myth and fable.

A Tapecaria de Emma (Portuguese, Hardcover, Edicao Capa Dura Padrao ed.): Isobel Blackthorn A Tapecaria de Emma (Portuguese, Hardcover, Edicao Capa Dura Padrao ed.)
Isobel Blackthorn
R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
We Germans (Hardcover): Alexander Starritt We Germans (Hardcover)
Alexander Starritt
R806 R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Save R69 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Midnight News (Paperback): Jo Baker The Midnight News (Paperback)
Jo Baker
R480 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and confidences with her best friend Elena, and dodging her difficult father. She has good reason to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. She knows what happens when she makes a nuisance of herself. On her way to work she often sees the boy who feeds the birds - a source of unexpected joy amidst the rubble of the Blitz. But every day brings new scenes of devastation, and after yet another heartbreaking loss Charlotte has an uncanny sense of foreboding. Someone is stalking the darkness, targeting her friends. And now he is following her. She no longer knows who to trust. She can't even trust herself. She knows this; her family have told so her often enough. As grief and suspicion consume her, Charlotte's nerves become increasingly frayed, and soon her very freedom is under threat . . . Riveting and deeply moving, The Midnight News is a tour de force from Sunday Times bestselling author Jo Baker - a breathtaking story of friendship, love and war.

Life And Fate (Paperback, New ed): Vasily Grossman Life And Fate (Paperback, New ed)
Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler 2
R429 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.

Fiebre De Sangre (Spanish, Hardcover, Edicion de Letra Grande En Tapa Dura ed.): Simone Beaudelaire Fiebre De Sangre (Spanish, Hardcover, Edicion de Letra Grande En Tapa Dura ed.)
Simone Beaudelaire; Translated by Ester Garcia
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Raid 42 (Paperback, Reissue): Graham Hurley Raid 42 (Paperback, Reissue)
Graham Hurley
R308 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Save R18 (6%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Spring, 1941. The war in the West is as good as won. Nation after nation has fallen before the Reich's armies. Only Britain endures, her cities under nightly bombardment from the Luftwaffe. Berlin would happily call off the bombers in exchange for a peace treaty. Hitler would like to persuade Britain to turn her back on Europe, to attend to her precious Empire instead, to allow Germany a free hand to deal with the real enemy in the East. Peace, perhaps, but at what cost? For Churchill the price is too high; but for others within the British establishment, it is a price worth paying. On both sides of the channel, advocates of total war or peace-at-all-costs are at each others' throats - all unaware that Rudolf Hess, Hitler's quiet, contemplative deputy, has already taken radical steps to change the fortunes of the war... Raid 42 is part of the SPOILS OF WAR Collection, a thrilling, beguiling blend of fact and fiction born of some of the most tragic, suspenseful, and action-packed events of World War II. From the mind of highly acclaimed thriller author GRAHAM HURLEY, this blockbuster non-chronological collection allows the reader to explore Hurley's masterful storytelling in any order, with compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe.

Fiebre De Sangre (Spanish, Hardcover, Edicion Estandar de Tapa Dura ed.): Simone Beaudelaire Fiebre De Sangre (Spanish, Hardcover, Edicion Estandar de Tapa Dura ed.)
Simone Beaudelaire; Translated by Ester Garcia
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Our Woman in Moscow (Paperback): Beatriz Williams Our Woman in Moscow (Paperback)
Beatriz Williams
R230 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R35 (15%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Don't miss the gripping new book from the international bestseller - the story of two sisters caught up in Cold War espionage In 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the estranged twin sister she hasn't seen since 1940. Since that one catastrophic summer in Rome, as war was engulfing Europe and Iris was falling desperately in love... Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of Agent Fox in a precarious plot to extract her sister from behind the Iron Curtain. But the truth behind Iris's marriage threatens to unravel everything, and as the sisters race to safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice...

Between the Regions of Kindness (Paperback): Alice Jolly Between the Regions of Kindness (Paperback)
Alice Jolly 1
R295 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R43 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Coventry, 1941. The morning after one of the worst nights of the Blitz. Twenty-two-year-old Rose enters the remains of a bombed house to find her best friend dead. Shocked and confused, she makes a split-second decision that will reverberate for generations to come. More than fifty years later, in modern-day Brighton, Rose's granddaughter Lara waits for the return of her eighteen-year-old son Jay. Reckless and idealistic, he has gone to Iraq to stand on a conflict line as an unarmed witness to peace. Lara holds her parents, Mollie and Rufus, partly responsible for Jay's departure. But in her attempts to explain their thwarted passions, she finds all her assumptions about her own life are called into question. Then into this damaged family come two strangers - Oliver, a former faith healer, and Jemmy, a young woman devastated by the loss of a baby. Together they help to establish a partial peace - but at what cost?

The Bookseller's Secret - A Novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII (Paperback, Original ed.): Michelle Gable The Bookseller's Secret - A Novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII (Paperback, Original ed.)
Michelle Gable
R432 R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Save R25 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Culture in Camouflage - War, Empire, and Modern British Literature (Hardcover): Patrick Deer Culture in Camouflage - War, Empire, and Modern British Literature (Hardcover)
Patrick Deer
R3,883 Discovery Miles 38 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Culture in Camouflage aims to remap the history of British war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the Second World War. The book offers the first comprehensive account of the emergence of modern war culture, arguing that its exceptional forms and temporalities force us to reappraise British cultural modernity.
The book explores how writers like Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, James Hanley, Rex Warner, Alexander Baron, Keith Douglas, Henry Green, and Graham Greene contested the dominant narratives of war projected by an enormously powerful and persuasive mass media and culture industry. Patrick Deer reads war literature as one element in an expanded cultural field, which also includes popular culture and mass communications, the productions of war planners and military historians, projections of new technologies of violence, the fantasies and theories of strategists, and the material culture of total war.
Modern war cultures, Deer contends, are defined by their drive to normalize conflict and war-making, by their struggle to colonize the entire wartime cultural field, and by their claim to monopolize representations and interpretation of the conflict. But the mobilization of cultural formations during wartime reveals, at times glaringly, the constitutive contradictions at the heart of modern ideas of culture. The Great War failed to produce a popular war culture on the home front, producing instead an extraordinary literature of protest, yet the strategists struggled to regain their oversight over both the enemy across no man's land, and the minds and bodies of their own mass conscript armies. The interwar years saw a massive effort to make strategic fantasies a reality; if the technology of imperial air power or mobile armoured warfare did not yet exist, culture could be mobilized to shore up the ramshackle war machine. During World War Two a fully fledged British war culture emerged triumphant in time of national crisis, offering the vision of a fully mobilized island fortress, a loyal empire, and a modernized war machine ready to wage a futuristic war of space and movement. This was the struggle that British World War Two writers confronted with extraordinary courage and creativity.

Death in Captivity - A Second World War Mystery (Paperback): Michael Gilbert Death in Captivity - A Second World War Mystery (Paperback)
Michael Gilbert; Introduction by Martin Edwards 1
R307 R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse - or was this murder? Captain Henry `Cuckoo' Goyles, master tunneller and amateur detective, takes up the case. This classic locked-room mystery with a closed circle of suspects is woven together with a thrilling story of escape from the camp, as the Second World War nears its endgame and the British prisoners prepare to flee into the Italian countryside.

The Tulip Tearooms - A compelling saga of heartache and happiness in post-war London (Hardcover): Pamela Evans The Tulip Tearooms - A compelling saga of heartache and happiness in post-war London (Hardcover)
Pamela Evans
R668 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R83 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

THE TULIP TEAROOMS is a heartwarming and poignant saga from Pam Evans, set in London just after the Second World War. Perfect for readers of Kitty Neale, Katie Flynn and Dilly Court. The Second World War is finally over when Lola Brown meets Harry Riggs at a dance. It is love at first sight but when Harry tells Lola that he is a policeman, her heart sinks. Lola's father is a petty criminal, and if Harry ever finds out and turns him in, it will destroy her family... Harry reluctantly accepts that Lola doesn't want to see him again, and eventually starts to find happiness without her. In the meantime, Lola encounters the eccentric Pickford sisters and sets about transforming their run-down tearooms in London's West End, only to find her own life transformed as well. Despite everything, Harry and Lola continue to feel drawn to each other, but the truth about Lola's family can't stay hidden for ever...

The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (Paperback): Sarit Yishai-Levi The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (Paperback)
Sarit Yishai-Levi; Translated by Anthony Berris
R548 R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Save R78 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Premiere Neige, Tome 2 - La Honte (French, Hardcover): Bun Sakashita Premiere Neige, Tome 2 - La Honte (French, Hardcover)
Bun Sakashita
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Jackdaws (Paperback): Ken Follett Jackdaws (Paperback)
Ken Follett 1
R370 R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Save R57 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jackdaws is an irresistible novel of the French Resistance, love, courage and revenge set in the Second War War.

A Failed Mission

Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance try to destroy a telephone exchange vital to Nazi communications. Heavily defended, the mission fails disastrously.

A Daring Plan

With invasion looming, Flick Clairet, a British secret agent, proposes a daring but perilous new plan. She, along with an all-female team – the Jackdaws – will infiltrate and neutralise the exchange before Allied Forces land in France.

A Race Against Time

However, unbeknownst to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant spy-catcher – Dieter Franck – to crush the French Resistance. And now Franck is closing in . . .

To Fly, to Fight and to Save - The Story of a Country Pastor Who Becomes a Fighter Pilot (Paperback): Richard Bemand To Fly, to Fight and to Save - The Story of a Country Pastor Who Becomes a Fighter Pilot (Paperback)
Richard Bemand
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is the 1930s, and young John Wilkins has been taught to fly by his ex-Royal Flying Corps father. He longs to fly in battle, but his Christian beliefs bring him into a pastoral role. When conflict looms in the shape of World War II, he has to make a hard decision. Should he continue to shepherd the flock in his village church, or should he apply for a pilot's job in RAF Fighter Command, where the need for experienced pilots is growing? An absorbing story about a fictional character set in a factual historical setting.

The Riviera House (Paperback): Natasha Lester The Riviera House (Paperback)
Natasha Lester
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Semper Fidelis (Paperback, Open market ed): W.E.B. Griffin Semper Fidelis (Paperback, Open market ed)
W.E.B. Griffin
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Shanghai to WAke Island, the Corps was America's first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, the bestselling author of the acclaimed BROTHERHOOD OF WAR saga brings to life the men of the Marine Corps--their loves and their loyalties--as they steeled themselves for battle, and prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice...

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