Children’s / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces

Nearly 8,000 Jewish-owned businesses, schools, hospitals and homes were destroyed during one night of brutality in November 1938.

President Franklin D.

Explores the lives and daring deeds of spies during World War II, using photos, original sources, maps, timelines and little-known facts.

Explores the lives and daring deeds of spies during World War I, using photos, original sources, maps, timelines and little-known facts.

Explores the lives and daring deeds of modern-day spies, using photos, original sources, maps, timelines and little-known facts.

Explores the lives and daring deeds of spies during the Cold War, using photos, original sources, maps, timelines and little-known facts.

World War II was the most destructive war in history.

World War I was a brutal war that left more than 9 million dead.

During World War II, between 10 July and 31 October 1940, Nazi Germany launched an attempt to invade Great Britain, beginning with air raids.

Experience Edinburgh Castle as you've never seen it before up close and personal!

In an immersive, exciting narrative nonfiction format, this powerful book follows a selection of people who experienced the D-Day landings.

Experience the events that followed the Sobibor death camp prisoner's decision to escape.

Experience the incredible story of the brave men who tunnelled to escape a German prisoner-of-war camp.

Experience the thrilling and true story of Lt Robert Grimes as he runs for his life to evade being captured by Nazi soldiers.

This is the true story of one man's bravery, ingenuity and determination as he trekked hundreds of kilometres across the mountains.

Experience haunted places as you've never seen them before-up close and personal!

Experience haunted places as you've never seen them before-up close and personal!

Experience haunted places as you've never seen them before-up close and personal!

In an immersive, exciting narrative nonfiction format, this powerful book follows a selection of people who experienced the events of the Holocaust.

In the midst of World War II, a group of Army Air Force medical workers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines after surviving a plane crash.

A twelve-year-old boy searches for his father and fights for free press amid the chilling rise of Hitler's Germany in this second book in the action-packed middle grade series Web of the Spider for fans of I Survived and A Night Divided.

A look at some of the biggest challenges facing our world today - war and conflict - and how we are tackling themHow can we build a better, fairer, more equal, cleaner world?

The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is an abridged narrative from Malory's classic text, Morte D'Arthur, edited by Alfred W.

This little books pages contain the Tale of Tommy, a little boy who decides to become a soldier.

The Stories of King Arthur are retold here, by A.

A Patriotic Schoolgirl' is a work of juvenile fiction by Angela Brazil.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Book Band: Dark Red (ideal for ages 10+)_______________The story of WWII starring the brilliant pilots you've never heard of.

Book Band: Dark Red (ideal for ages 10+)_______________The story of WWII starring the brilliant pilots you've never heard of.

From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps
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This exciting historical adventure brings the Second World War to life!

From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps____________________The North Atlantic, 1726Captain Fly is the greatest pirate to sail the seven seas - or so he says.

From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps____________________The North Atlantic, 1726Captain Fly is the greatest pirate to sail the seven seas - or so he says.

From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps_______________This brand new, thrilling adventure from Terry Deary brings the closing days of the First World War to life.

From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps_______________This brand new, thrilling adventure from Terry Deary brings the closing days of the First World War to life.

Noor Khan was a pacifist, an Indian Muslim, a poet and children's author.

Noor Khan was a pacifist, an Indian Muslim, a poet and children's author.

Darius, son of an escaped Iranian scientist, is a pupil at an exclusive Swiss school, but his father's former bosses want him back and have no regard for the boy's LIFE or his FREEDOM.

The ghettos of Rio de Janeiro are crawling with street kids.

An SAS team has been captured by a war lord who forces children to become soldiers.

About the book - The War Years World War II was a time of chaos and fear throughout the world.

Skilled assassins and saboteurs have undermined the most powerful armies with secret tactics and weapons.

On battlefields throughout history, devastating engines of war have helped armies clinch victories and preserve empires.

Great leaders commanded disciplined, fast-moving armies, but they also used stealth to gain lands and conquer peoples.

From piercing arrowheads to mighty longswords and battleaxes, weapons have clashed on the battlefield from ancient times onwards.

By the early and mid-nineteenth century, many US citizens were moving westward.

Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of their Baghdad neighborhood-when books, not bombs, ruled Mutanabbi Street.

In 1946, as part of the Cold War arms race, the US military launched a program to test nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean.

Trained to fight at sea, in the air, and on land, U.