Caddick-Adams, Peter. Monte : ten armies in hell. 2013. TB 20552. A clear and comprehensive account of the 5 month campaign to capture the monastery of Monte Cassino during the Second World War. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 14 hours 10 minutes. Christopher, John. The HMS Victory story. 2010. TB 19705. The story of Britain's most illustrious warship, the HMS Victory. TB 19705. Read by David Thorpe. 1 hour 52 minutes. Corrigan, Gordon. A great and glorious adventure: a military history of the Hundred Years War. 2014. TB21790. The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance. But despite great victories at Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the English could never hope to secure their claims in perpetuity. At its end, however, the English had become English, as opposed to Anglo-French, and France too had set out on the road to nationhood. Read by Peter Crerar. 11 hours 25 minutes. David, Saul. 100 days to victory: how the Great War was fought and won. 2013. TB21438. The people and events of the war are brought dramatically to life from young Adolf Hitler's reaction to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, through a Zeppelin raid on Scarborough, the tragic dramas of Gallipoli and the battlefields of the Western Front to the individual bravery of the first Indian VC. Read by Richard Burnip. 19 hours 40 minutes. Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Abducting a general: the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete. 2014. TB21645. One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a
Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes. 13 hours 49 minutes. Mallinson, Allan. The making of the British Army. 2011. TB 19429. From the English Civil War to today's War on Terror: in this sweeping account of nearly 500 years of military history, former soldier Allan Mallinson looks at how the Army's dramatic past has made it one of the most effective fighting forces in the world today. Read by Robert Portal. 19 hours 14 minutes. Mulley, Clare. The spy who loved: the secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of the Second World War. 2012. TB 20150. Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, was the first woman to work for the British as a secret agent during the Second World War, a prototype for the women agents of the SOE, which had yet to be formed. She was one of the most daring female secret agents and this is her story. Read by Jenny Coverack. 15 hours 2 minutes. Olusoga, David. The world's war. 2014. TB21611. A unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War, and why they were later air-brushed out of history. Every major battle fought on the Western Front, from the First Battle of Ypres to the Second Battle of the Marne, was fought by Allied armies that were multi-racial and multi -ethnic. Yet from the moment the guns fell silent the role of non-white soldiers was forgotten and airbrushed out by later historians. Read by Damien Lynch. 16 hours 19 minutes. Overy, R J. The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945. 2013. TB 21359. The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from the Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author. It is the first book to examine seriously not just the most well-known parts of the campaign, but the significance of bombing on many other fronts – the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for