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The Twilight World : A Novel
Herzog, WernerPenguin Publishing Group 2022The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog. In his first novel, Herzog tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island...
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Ice Cold Killers - The Rituals of Murderers
History, WorldSaga EgmontFrom singling out victims at bus stops, targeting women with long, blonde hair, saving trophies, or dismembering and even eating their victims, each serial killer set a unique ritu...
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Ice Cold Killers - Addicted to Death
History, WorldSaga EgmontWhat makes a serial killer? There is a huge difference between killers who kill once in the heat of the moment, mass murderers who slaughter many people at once, and serial killers...
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Blitzkrieg
History, WorldSaga EgmontOn September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. The country needed to be subjugated quickly before Britain and France could intervene. Germany’s Panzer divisions proved unstoppable. B...
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Total War
History, WorldSaga EgmontIt is 03:14 on 22nd June 1941. Along a 1,800-kilometre front line that stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north, to Romania in the South, German soldiers are ready for battle. A...
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Special Operations
History, WorldSaga EgmontThe battle is won, the enemy driven out, and everyone can breathe again. Many field generals thought this – but generals often make mistakes. Throughout World War II, specially tra...
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The Allies Fight Back
History, WorldSaga EgmontThe Germans and their Japanese allies have gone from victory to victory since the start of the war, but in the autumn of 1942, that begins to change. On the small Pacific island of...
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The Net Tightens Around Hitler
History, WorldSaga EgmontOn 27th January 1944, Stalin declares that Leningrad has been liberated. After a siege lasting two and a half years, German forces retreat with the Red Army in hot pursuit. Encoura...
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Still Life
Winman, SarahHarperCollins Publishers 2021THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021 A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD 'Sh...
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Hell on the Eastern Front
History, WorldSaga EgmontGerman tanks rolled unimpeded across the Russian steppes at the start of Hitler’s campaign against the Soviet Union. But in 1943, the so-called Slavic "untermensch" (subhumans) gai...
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Knights Templar: Lost Secrets Revealed
History, WorldSaga EgmontHistorians find the Middle Ages a period shrouded in mystery. On the one hand, sources speak of greedy kings and corrupt popes who flourished during a time of widespread hunger, di...
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Biggest Blunders of WWII
History, WorldSaga EgmontIn August 1940, Berlin was hit by British bombers. Hitler immediately ordered a series of gigantic air defences be built – each one more expensive than the city’s entire Olympic fa...
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The Age of Wood : Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
Ennos, RolandScribner 2020A "smart and surprising" (Booklist) "expansive history" (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—including human evolution and...
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Blitzkrieg
History, WorldSaga EgmontOn September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. The country needed to be subjugated quickly before Britain and France could intervene. Germany’s Panzer divisions proved unstoppable. B...
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Total War
History, WorldSaga EgmontIt is 03:14 on 22nd June 1941. Along a 1,800-kilometre front line that stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north, to Romania in the South, German soldiers are ready for battle. A...
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The Allies Fight Back
History, WorldSaga EgmontThe Germans and their Japanese allies have gone from victory to victory since the start of the war, but in the autumn of 1942, that begins to change. On the small Pacific island of...
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The Net Tightens Around Hitler
History, WorldSaga EgmontOn 27th January 1944, Stalin declares that Leningrad has been liberated. After a siege lasting two and a half years, German forces retreat with the Red Army in hot pursuit. Encoura...
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Unsolved Mysteries of WWII
History, WorldSaga EgmontNazi propaganda presented Adolf Hitler as ascetic, solitary and a brilliant Fu¨hrer. Only a few knew the real man behind World War II. His mystery has fuelled numerous conspiracy t...
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Heroes and Villains
History, WorldSaga EgmontWith Europe overrun by Hitler’s thundering war machine, Churchill is the only head of state with the courage to stand up to the Fu¨hrer. The British Prime Minister’s iron will make...
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A World at War
History, WorldSaga EgmontOn 9th August, 1945, American pilot Charles W Sweeney threw a nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. 43 seconds later, his deadly cargo exploded in the air over the port...