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Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel ...
Elizabeth David was born into a upper-class family and pursued a rebellious and bohemian life as a student of art and then an actress in ...
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ...
'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.'
March, 1941 ...
Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a ...
The Second World War Italian campaign in over 300 wartime photographs. The Second World War Italian campaign is often less well remembered than the struggle ...
Luck Was Lacking, But Valor Was Not begins by examining a number of factors relating to the Italian army's performance in the desert, including ...
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with ...
A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy.
After repulsing the ...
Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in ...
Italy's colonial adventure in East Africa, which had begun in the previous century and which ended abruptly with the defeat at Adua in 1896 ...
In early October 1935 and without any declaration of war some two hundred thousand men, comprising soldiers and airmen of the Italian armed forces, Fascist ...