Second World War

On Christmas morning, 1944, there was little reason to celebrate.   As the Battle of the Bulge raged, a small force of American soldersincluding th...

A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearInsightfula deft, textured work of intellectual history.Foreign AffairsA timely insig...

On New Years Day 1940, the people of Britain looked back on the first four months of the Second World War with a sort of puzzled unease. Wartime li...

This volume presents the most detailed history and accurate profiles to date of the Douglas Boston light bomber (DB-7B and A-20 models) in RAAF Pac...

The CAC Boomerang has a unique place in Australian aviation history, being the nations only home designed and produced fighter. The design was born...

The attack on Pearl Harbor shocked the nation. With the declaration of war, lines formed outside of recruiting stations as Americans desired to don...

In Racial Science in Hitlers New Europe, 19381945, international scholars examine the theories of race that informed the legal, political, and soci...

Negotiating Nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged their soldier-patients within the sensiti...

This title begins with the Soviet Victory in the Arctic and tells the story of the Soviet offensive on the Karelian Front in October 1944. We then ...

By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht's panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The t...

During World War II, over half a million men and women under Nazi occupation, who lacked German citizenship, were forcibly conscripted into the Ger...

The Convoy represents a fresh approach to the story of the Battle of the Atlantic. It is also the first to deal with the more spectacular story of ...

Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.), interweaves his story and that of his family with the larger history of World War II and the p...

This edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises historical case studies of modern sup...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death. Kirkus ReviewsWhen veteran war ...

Booms Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G.Boom (19201953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship ...

More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and researchers. Receiv...

This volume contains thirteen selected papers from the seventh international 'Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference', held in London in January...

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contr...

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contr...

The Blue-Eyed Enemy is a comprehensive account of the interwoven histories of the three major archipelago-nations of the West Pacific during the ye...

Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailandor Siam, as it was formerly knownhas succeeded i...

A powerful tale of trauma and endurance that transformed a nations understanding of Korean comfort womenDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 K...