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Force Benedict by Eric Carter
Category: History | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories Ser.
Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not under Nazi occupation. If Murmansk fell, Soviet resistance ...Show more
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik
Category: Biography | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two Ser.
Sam Pivnik's life story is a classic testimony of Holocaust survival. In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, Sam Pivnik's life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners ...Show more
The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story by Tessa Dunlop
Category: History | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories Ser.
'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman 'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy.' Daily Mail ...Show more
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey & Rob Broomby
Category: Biography | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two Ser.
THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality me ...Show more
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