Scapa Flow: The Reminiscences of Men and Women Who Served in Scapa Flow in the Two World Wars

Jackals’ Revenge (Peter Lamb, Book 2)

The sequel to The Black Jackals is determined within the turmoil of the japanese Mediterranean in 1941, with the Brits suffering to carry their line in Greece opposed to the strong German and Italian forces.

Peter Lamb and his males are halted of their retreat to England and compelled to hitch the British forces preserving the go at Thermopylae. yet their difficult stories in France haven't ready the Jackals for the savage hand at hand struggling with in the course of the mountains. Lamb’s restricted wisdom of command leaves him uncertain approximately the best way to organise the hot Zealand and Greek partisan squaddies who're extra to his troop.

When they land in Crete, Lamb turns into suspicious of a few of the civilians who, on fleeing from Greece, have taken conceal with the Jackals. but he understands that dealing with the remarkable German paratroopers for the 1st time, mixed with the determined conflict to carry Crete in any respect expenditures, will strength him to discover how to paintings along any help he's provided. His new troop could be made of partisans, allied irregulars – together with Evelyn Waugh – and Spanish volunteers.

Jackals’ Revenge paints a super photograph of the turbulent theatre of war.

Eastern Approaches (Penguin World War II Collection)

Fitztroy Maclean was once one of many real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia earlier than the battle, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialized in hair-raising commando raids at the back of enemy traces, together with the bold and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq.

Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics)

“Age can by no means boring this type of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from international battle II, filed for the hot York bring in Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human part of warfare. Writing from England in the middle of the London blitz, North Africa, and Italy, Steinbeck makes a speciality of the folk in preference to the battles, portraying every body from the blokes within the bomber team to Bob desire on his USO travel.

The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler

Whilst Adolf Hitler seized Vienna within the Anschluss of 1938, he referred to as the town "a pearl to which he may supply a formal surroundings. " however the environment he left at the back of seven years later used to be considered one of break and destruction--a actual, non secular, and highbrow desolate tract. here's a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of 1 of Europe's nice towns.