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VE Day and WW2 Booklist Wartime West Sussex 1939-1945 website Victory in Europe: the 70th Anniversary A list of lending books on VE Day and World War Two available in West Sussex public libraries VE Day Peter BRADSHAW, Night of triumph, (Duckworth, 2013) Shelfmark: Crime Craig CABELL, VE Day, a day to remember, by Craig Cabell & Allan Richards (Pen & Sword Military, 2005), Shelfmark: 940.548141 and Large Print John DELANEY, VE Day: The Album, Photographs from the Imperial War Museum, (Ebury Press, 1995), Shelfmark: RV 940.5421 Martin GILBERT, Day the War ended, VE Day 1945, in Europe and around the World, (HarperCollins, 1995), Shelfmark: RV 940.5421 Max HASTINGS, Victory in Europe: D-Day to V-E Day, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985), Shelfmark: 940.5421 Walter KEMPOWSKI, Swansong 1945, a collective diary from Hitler's last birthday to VE Day, (Granta, 2014), Shelfmark: 940.5481 Sean LONGDEN, To the Victor the Spoils, D-Day to VE Day, the Reality Behind the Heroism, (Arris, 2004), Shelfmark: 940.54124 Vera LYNN, The Day War Ended, Voices and Memories From 1945, Foreword by Vera Lynn, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated, 2005), Shelfmark: 940.53 Charles B MACDONALD, Victory in Europe, 1945, the last offensive of World War II, (Dover, 2007), Shelfmark: 940.5421 Russell MILLER, Ten Days in May, The People's Story of VE Day, (Michael Joseph, 1995), Shelfmark: 940.546 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk Wartime West Sussex 1939-1945 website Russell MILLER, VE Day, the People's Story, by Russell Miller with Renate Miller, (Tempus, 2007), Shelfmark: 940.5312 David STAFFORD, Endgame 1945, Victory, Retribution, Liberation, (Little Brown, 2007), Shelfmark: 940.5 Ken TOUT, An end of war: fatal final days to VE Day, 1945, (History, 2011), Shelfmark: 940.5421 War in Sussex Ian GREIG, D-Day West Sussex: Springboard for the Normandy Landings 1944, by Ian Greig, Kim Leslie and Alan Readman, (West Sussex County Council, 1994), Shelfmark: 942.25 Joan STRANGE, Despatches from the Home Front, The War Diaries of Joan Strange 1939-1945, (Monarch, 1989), Shelfmark: 940.5481 World War II Richard J. ALDRICH, Witness to war: diaries of the Second World War in Europe and the Middle East, (Corgi Books, 2013), Shelfmark: 940.5481 Max ARTHUR, Forgotten voices of the Second World War, (Ebury, 2005), Shelfmark: 940.5481 Antony BEEVOR, The Second World War, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012), Shelfmark: 940.53 Antony BEEVOR, No end save victory, New Second World War Writing, Written by Antony Beevor and others and edited by Robert Cowley, (Cassell, 2002), Shelfmark: 940.54 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk Wartime West Sussex 1939-1945 website Neil DEMARCO, The Second World War, (Hodder & Stoughton, 2004), Shelfmark: 940.53 Nigel FOUNTAIN, World at War WWII: the People’s Story, (Reader's Digest, 2003), Shelfmark: 940.53 Juliet GARDINER, Children's War: the Second World War through the eyes of the children of Britain, (Piatkus, 2005), Shelfmark: 940.53161 Susan GOODMAN, Children of War: the Second World War through the eyes of a generation, (John Murray, 2005), Shelfmark: 940.53161 Carol HARRIS, D-Day diary, life on the front line in the Second World War, (History, 2013), Shelfmark 940.542142 Richard HOLMES, The Second World War in photographs, (Andre Deutsch, 2014), Shelfmark: 940.54 Jon E LEWIS, World War II, the autobiography: the history of World War II from September 1939 to VJ Day through the personal accounts of soldiers, speeches, diaries and official records, (Robinson, 2009), Shelfmark: 940.53 B.H. LIDDELL HART, A history of the Second World War, (Pan Books, 2014), Shelfmark: 940.54 Andrew MARR, Making of modern Britain, from Queen Victoria to VE Day, (Pan, 2010), Shelfmark: 942.082 Penelope MIDDELBOE, We shall never surrender: Wartime Diaries 1939-1945, (Pan, 2012), Shelfmark: 940.548141 Mavis NICHOLSON, What did you do in the war, mummy?: women in World War II, (Seren Books, 2010), Shelfmark: 940.5481 Virginia NICHOLSON, Millions like us, women's lives in the Second World War, (Viking, 2012), Shelfmark: 940.53 Richard OVERY, The Second World War: the complete illustrated history, (Carlton, 2010), Shelfmark: 940.54 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk Wartime West Sussex 1939-1945 website James OWEN, Voice of War, the Second World War Told by Those Who Fought It, (Viking, 2004) Shelfmark: 940.5481 A.W. PURDUE, The Second World War, (Macmillan, 1999) Shelfmark: 940.53 H SEBAG-MONTEFIORE, Enigma, the Battle for the Code, (Weidenfeld, 2000), Shelfmark: 940.54864 Norman STONE, World War Two, a short history, (Allen Lane, 2013), Shelfmark: 940.53 Alan WARREN, World War II, a military history, (Tempus, 2008), Shelfmark: 940.54 Gerhard L WEINBERG, A world at arms: a global history of World War II, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Shelfmark: 940.53 Amy Perry Local Studies Librarian May 2015 © West Sussex County Council Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk .
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