Currently browsing: World War Two
Discover The Emperor of Lies
Posted On: January 16, 2012Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Faber
Now published in over twenty languages, Steve Sem-Sandberg’s award winning The Emperor of Lies is one of the great Holocaust novels of the twenty-first century by one of Scandinavia’s most admired authors. Read an extract.
Read More...An extract from Rifleman, by Victor Gregg, with Rick Stroud
Posted On: November 28, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Bloomsbury
This is the story of a true survivor.
A Front-line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall…
Read More...Undercover with Nicholas Rankin: Ian Fleming’s Commandos
Posted On: October 25, 2011Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
In his new book, Nicholas Rankin gives us the true story of Ian Fleming’s Second World War unit – 30 Assault Unit – from which, in his rank of Commander Ian Fleming RNVR, was born the real-life inspiration for James Bond.
Read More...Anna Reid discusses her new book Leningrad
Posted On: October 5, 2011Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Bloomsbury
On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War – and of the twentieth century – would have been very different.
Read More...The Far to Go Reading Guide
Posted On: August 9, 2011Posted In: Reading Groups
Publisher: Headline
Download the reading guide to Alison Pick’s Booker long-listed novel, a powerful and profoundly moving story about one family’s epic journey to flee the Nazi occupation of their homeland in 1939, and above all to save the life of a six-year-old boy…
Read More...Read an extract from Far to Go, by Alison Pick
Posted On: May 26, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Headline
A powerful and profoundly moving story about one family’s epic journey to flee the Nazi occupation of their homeland in 1939, and above all to save the life of a six-year-old boy…
Read More...Take a sneak peek at Ghastly Business, by Louise Levene
Posted On: May 24, 2011Posted In: Articles, Competitions
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Ghastly Business conjures the world of interwar London with gleeful vigour: a time when a woman’s body was only mentioned if someone had dismembered it; when the scars of the Great War were still fresh and when a pretty young bluestocking needed to tread very carefully in order to avoid becoming yet another of its casualties.
Read More...An interview with the Rifleman
Posted On: February 10, 2011Posted In: Video
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Rifleman is the astonishing life of a young working-class man, Victor Gregg, who fought throughout the Second World War from Alamein to the invasion of Sicily, was captured at Arnhem and as a POW survived the Allied bombing raid on Dresden.
Watch an interview with the author.
Read More...We Die Alone: an introduction
Posted On: August 18, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
The following is Andy McNab’s introduction to David Howarth’s We Die Alone. During World War Two, Howarth ran a spy ring from which this volume and his previous best-seller, The Shetland Bus, both derive. Mr Howarth, who died in 1991, was the author of two dozen major books of history.
Read More...The Round-up: Military History
Posted On: June 29, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Bookhugger’s publishers present a selection of true tales of heroism, survival, strategy and tragedy from the all-conquering Ottoman Empire of the mid-sixteenth century to behind lines operations in the ‘Alpine Redoubt’ area of Austria in World War Two…
Read More...Read the first chapter of The Very Thought of You, by Rosie Alison
Posted On: April 23, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Alma Books
Fresh from its shortlisting for the Orange Prize for fiction, enjoy the first chapter of this haunting coming-of-age novel.
Read More...Read an extract from Coward at the Bridge, by James Delingpole
Posted On: April 14, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Trapped in a cupboard with a nubile blonde nymphomaniac; crossing the Waal under a hail of fire with the US paratroops of 82nd airborne; rattling in a jeep through the Dutch countryside with the men of 1st Airborne Recce Squadron; trying to take out a self-propelled gun with a ruddy useless PIAT. It’s all in a day’s work for Lt Dick Coward and Sgt Tom Price.
Read More...March non-fiction round-up
Posted On: March 24, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Enjoy Bookhugger’s roundup of the fantastically diverse non-fiction titles that have hit the bookshops this March – from Mussolini to the Mafia, and Eastenders to Okinawa, it’s all here.
Read More...The Children’s Invasion Book
Posted On: February 18, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Faber
In this second short film featuring Faber archivist Robert Brown, he introduces us to another of Faber’s wartime publications – The Children’s Invasion Book. Published in 1944, this book wasn’t a guide to help British children prepare for the possibility of a German invasion of the UK, but a display of the Allied military hardware which was about to be unleashed on D-Day…
Read More...David Peace on Occupied City
Posted On: January 28, 2010Posted In: Audio, Extracts, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
George Miller talks to David Peace about the background to and writing of his latest novel, the second in his Tokyo Trilogy, Occupied City, and we have clips of David Peace reading from the novel too.
Read More...The Booklist – Winter Warmer
Posted On: January 26, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Curl up in front of the fire, and spend some time with a loner in the woods, his cabin insulated by his books; explore the Canadian Northwest with an anthropologist gone native; warm yourself with a wonderful tales from WWII and the Napoleonic Wars; then witness explorers pushing themselves to the limit, all from the comfort of your armchair!
Read More...Andrew Roberts on If Hitler Comes
Posted On: December 18, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
A classic of ‘imaginary history’, If Hitler Comes was first published only 2 months after the Fall of France, whilst the Battle of Britain was being fought. Now republished for the first time in 68 years and, in the view of historian Andrew Roberts it deserves its place at the head of what has become an emerging literary genre.
Read More...Barbara Kingsolver on The Lacuna
Posted On: November 16, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
Barbara Kingsolver wasn’t able to come to the UK for publication of her spellbinding new novel The Lacuna (though she hope to visit in 2010), so Faber did the next best thing – went to her with their questions.
Read More...The Booklist: After the War
Posted On: October 30, 2009Posted In: The Booklist
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
The act of War has affected hundreds of millions of people in so many different ways over the centuries. These memories should never be allowed to be forgotten. Bookhugger’s publishers present some of the most haunting fiction and non-fiction you will ever read…
Read More...September non-fiction round-up
Posted On: September 29, 2009Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
If fiction’s not your thing, September sees a wealth of fascinating new non-fiction hitting the shelves, including : biographies of characters as diverse as a novelist, a poker star, a movie mogul and a top tailor; and histories of the liberation of Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Read More...Read an extract from The Maze of Cadiz, by Aly Monroe
Posted On: September 17, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: John Murray
Franco’s Spain is the setting for Aly Monroe’s debut thriller, following the adventures of British intelligence officer Peter Cotton. You can read an extract of this historical mystery here on Bookhugger…
Read More...Celebrating WW2′s greatest bomber – the Lancaster
Posted On: September 9, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: John Murray
The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take the fight to the German homeland.
Read More...
