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1.		Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History from Virgin Books Price: £10.27 Customer Review: There are many histories written about the Dams raid where you can glean the clinical facts - and there was the film ... but there's nothing like oral history to engage the imagination and bring you close to the people who were there. The Dambusters, far from being 'gung-ho' come over as men of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation from Chatto & Windus Price: £12.00	Click here for more information

3.		Flying Stumps and Metal Bats: Cricket's Greatest Moments by the People Who Were There from Aurum Press Ltd Price: £9.99	Click here for more information

4.		Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII from Ebury Press Price: £5.59 Customer Review: The trouble with reading too many books about our dark periods of history is the lowering effect it can have on the rest of ones life. Loved ones become accustomed to lectures over breakfast on the iniquities of Nazi Germany. Squabbling children are reminded about the consequences of unbridled human... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do from The New Press Price: £9.09 Customer Review: If you are the sort of person that ends up chatting to the bloke or woman next to them at Railway Stations then this is the book for you. Terkels basically interviewed people over a number of years about their jobs and how they feel about them. If that sounds boring then just keep your head in... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Lost Voices of the Royal Navy: Vivid Eyewitness Accounts of Life in the Royal Navy from 1914-1945 from Hodder Paperbacks Price: £6.99 Customer Review: This book details the experiences of ordinary men and women serving in the Royal Navy from 1914-45.I found it really interesting,as many accounts are told.The battle of Jutland,the disastrous Gallipoli affair.The harsh training one could expect.There's many stories from the inter-war years,that I... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain from Headline Review Price: £11.89	Click here for more information

8.		Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle For Britain: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women on Both Sides (Forgotten Voices) from Ebury Press Price: £5.21 Customer Review: At the heading to one chapter an anonymous contributor states that a woman on seeing incendiaries falling over London, puts up her umbrella and goes out 'singing in the rain'. As 'singing in the rain' was made in 1952, it quite probably isn't true! I also don't believe the one about the RAF pilot... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives from Ebury Press Price: £9.09 Customer Review: A marvellous collection of interviews from the archives of the frankly superb "The World At War" television series. The interviewees range from the civilian to the military & the victors to the defeated but all had their lives indelibly marked by the Second World War. This is a hefty... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Vanishing Ireland from Hachette Books Ireland Price: £16.84 Customer Review: This is a great two-hander if you like photography books with a little more of the background on their subjects. Fennell's portraits are very good - revealing, touching and poignant. And the stories Bunbury has written for each of the people who appear in the book add an extra, brilliant dimension.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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