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A born raconteur, his escapes, his operations as a Spitfire pilot, his experiences as a prisoner-of-war, and his incredible escape crossing the Pyr...

Since it was first published in 1980, Terry Jones's study of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular and cont...

Originally published in 1956, former Second World War prisoner-of-war Calton Youngers No Flight from the Cage received critical acclaim. One critic...

A wide range of personal experiences are covered in the eleven chapters of this book. Nearly all the stories are written by the participants who de...

Tony Nott retired from the Dorset Police in 2002 at the rank of superintendent. He had spent most of his service as a detective, and had been invol...

For you the war is over. Last of the Kriegies tells the extraordinary stories of five of the last remaining Second World War RAF Bomber Command Pri...

After being taken prisoner at Tobruk and transported to Italy, the author was determined to escape and learnt Italian by talking to the sentries. H...

The London Blitz and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour are iconic myths for Britain and America. Few in either nation realise, however, that the...

Nazi Prisons in Britain is a ground-breaking book - a systematic study of Jersey and Guernsey prisons during the German occupation of the Channel I...

On 8 May 1945, 46-year-old Drum Major Jackson staggered towards his American liberators. Emaciated, dressed in rags, his decayed boots held togethe...

A look at the duty of nations to protect human rights beyond borders, why it has failed in practice, and what can be done about itThe idea that sta...

This thrilling new volume from Martin Bowman focusses on British, Canadian, Australian and German soldiers and airmen who were captured during the ...

In 1915, the German government published a book entitled 1915 in an attempt to portray the Germans as a civilised people who were destined to win...

Chronicling the many faces of the WWII effort, these contemporary black-and-white portraits of the longest surviving veterans remind us that the wa...

Wolfe Frank was Chief Interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials where he was dubbed 'The Voice of Doom'. A playboy turned resistance worker he had fled G...

By the laws of statistics John Wyatt should not be here today to tell his story. He firmly believes that someone somewhere was looking after him du...

In early 1942 the Third Reich opened a maximum security Prisoner Of War camp in Lower Silesia for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, t...

_The Lost Samurai_ reveals the greatest untold story of Japan''s legendary warrior class, which is that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai...

Albert Schwenn was called up by the SS Cavalry Replacement Battalion in Warsaw in October 1942, and in March 1943, was seconded to the SS Cavalry D...

The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city...

How long would you look for a missing son, even if you knew he was dead? How long could you justify such a search? Two years? Five years? A lifetim...

Over the course of many years Richard Pursehouse has painstakingly unravelled the story of a First World War prisoner of war camp which held captur...

The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.On capture, British officers...