More than 170,000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Guests of the Third Reich will provide an overview of what daily life was like for prisoners, from staging theatre productions to keep morale up to working allotments and planning audacious escape attempts.
ISBN-13: 9781912423064
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Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
This compact edition of the bestselling Secrets of Churchills War Rooms takes you behind the glass that separate Churchill War Rooms from the public. It provides exclusive up-close photography of telling details in every room and tells the fascinating story of how the work carried out in these underground offices helped Churchill win the war.
ISBN-13: 9781912423149
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly five million pieces of Lego, much of it sea themed. In the months that followed, beachcombers started to find Lego washed up on beaches across the south west coast. Among the ......
This highly illustrated book, first published to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019, will reconstruct the historic landings and the resultant battle for Normandy using artefacts, documents, interviews, film, art and photographs from the archives at IWM.
ISBN-13: 9781912423217
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
How far is a light year? Why isnt Pluto a planet anymore? Will the Universe end? What exactly is dark energy? How much does it cost to deliver a pizza to space? Uncover the answers to some of the most puzzling questions about space in this entertaining and informative miscellany from the expert astronomers at Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Many of the most inspiring characters in comics and graphic novels began their epic journeys as orphaned or abandoned children. In these stories, the loss of a parent inflicts challenges that even superpowers cannot easily resolve. For over a century and millions of readers, the comic strip is a space in which this narrative has been continuously ......
Churchill's War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it reveals the way that Winston Churchill talked about the conflict in public and in private - and the way that he himself was viewed at the time by family, friends, politicians, military leaders, staff , ......
ISBN-13: 9781904897361
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
