Second World War

From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battle...

When Nazi troops invaded her home of Donetsk, Ukraine, Tatyana Artemyeff, a 27-year-old teacher, was left on her own to save her two children an...

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librari...

In Bound by Muscle, Andrew Brown details the lives and achievements of two physiologists, Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977) and Otto Fritz Meyerhof...

The American 345th Bomb Group--the Air Apaches--was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to th...

Winner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Euro...

When Pauline Terreehorst bid for a vintage Gucci suitcase at Sothebys Amsterdam, she had no idea what was inside. After picking up her prize, she f...

This book provides a guide to the people, places, artifacts, events, terminology, scientific concepts, groups, critical documents, and code phrases...

From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything fo...

The Yarnfield Yanks tells the story of the main American Army Air Force Replacement Depot at Yarnfield, Stone, Staffordshire during World War II an...

Dive into the submerged history of the Pacific theater of WWII where ships, planes, submarines, and military surplus rest beneath the waves. Explor...

Both produced and distributed in a clandestine manner in Germany in the early 1930s, Anti-Anti is an intuitive guide to refuting antisemitism. A lo...

No military organisation has fought as well against such overwhelming odds as the Waffen-SS, but few have earned such an infamous reputation in the...

Illustrated with detailed artworks of Japanese aircraft and their markings, Japanese Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the aircra...

'Deeply researched and written with verve... thoughtful as well as action packed' The Times'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore'...

Examines the role of Christianity in British statecraft, politics, media, the armed forces and in the education and socialization of the young duri...

World War II was the greatest conflict in the history of mankind. It penetrated into every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to the Pacific Ocea...

Illustrated throughout, this book explains the composition and qualities of the Soviet tank force that fought Germanys mighty Panzers at the bigges...

A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fa...

An illustrated account of the first jet-powered combat aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and its short but action-packed career during World War ...

This book explores the social roots, character, and consequences of paramilitary violence in Europe in the 1940s. Paramilitarism had an impact on t...

A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for contro...

This book, spanning the years 19541957, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry ...

This book, spanning the years 19651967the years leading up to and culminating in the June 1967 Six Day Waris the fourth in a four-volume collection...

This book, spanning the years 19611964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry ...

This book, spanning the years 19571961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry...

After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirms parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped with censor...