Tony Rennell: 4 books
The Last Days of Glory
The Death of Queen Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 shook Britain to its core, and reverberated not just throughout the Commonwealth, but around the world. She was a woman in her eighties, and yet it seems no one could contemplate the end of a reign that had lasted so long. Most could not remember a time when...
Tail-End Charlies
The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Night after night they stifled their fears and flew through flak and packs of enemy fighters to drop the bombs that would demolish the Third Reich. The airmen of the United States 8th Army Air ForceAmerican and British Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the Second World War, defying...
The Last Escape
The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
As WW2 drew to a close, hundreds of thousands of British and American prisoners of war, held in camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, faced the prospect that they would never get home alive. In the depths of winter, their guards harried them on marches outof their camps and away from the armies advancing...
When Daddy Came Home
How War Changed Family Life Forever
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Compelling and moving real-life accounts of the impact on family life of the return of the troops at the end of the Second World War.
Summer 1945. Britain was in jubilant mood. At last, the war was over. Soon the men would be coming home. Then everything would be fine: life would get back to...