Second World War

A New Yorker Best Books of 2022 selectionNeed to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the origins of U.S. intelligence. Mich...

Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with veter...

If a mere seven more MPs had voted with Prime Minister JBM Hertzog in favour of neutrality, South Africas history would have been quite different. ...

Hold the Westwall is the dramatic story of Panzer Brigade 105, one of Germany's experimental independent armored brigades, and its formation, deplo...

Modern historians have consistently condemned the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence service, and its SS equivalent, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD...

Acclaimed author Andrew Thomas has chosen fifty fascinating cameos of individual actions or incidents across a wide variety of major and minor camp...

Roddy MacKenzie's father served in Bomber Command during the Second World War, but like so many brave veterans who had survived the war, he spoke l...

Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer st...

On December 7, 1941, the course of U.S. history changed forever with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Three weeks prior, Japanese Special Envoy to the ...

Rudolf Hoss has been called the greatest mass murderer in history. As the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, he supervised the killing of ...

Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer st...

In the waning years of World War II, as the tragic plight of the European Jews was coming to light in ever more horrific detail, a Jewish fighting ...

Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer st...

The war hung in the balance. In the Pacific, the Japanese had suffered their first major defeat at Midway and the German advance into the heart of ...

In Europe, World War II was four months old by Christmas 1939. The City of Flint, an American freighter, had been instrumental in rescuing 1200 ...

Major General Rea Leakey was one of the Royal Tank Regiments greatest heroes of the Second World War. As a young tank commander, he fought Rommels ...

During the Second World War, the only way Winston Churchill and his American counterpart Franklin D. Roosevelt could communicate was via a top secr...

Often appropriately described as the greatest naval battle in history, the battle of Leyte Gulf (23-26 October 1944) was actually a series of battl...

The Naval Institute Press will publish the much sought after six volumes of the Kure Maritime Museum's The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album serie...

With the onset of World War II, African Americans found themselves in a struggle just to be allowed to fight for their country. Individuals like...

Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous, gifted women risked their lives as courier pilots, flying Lancaster...

After Operation Valkyrie--the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the German government--both the Third ...

An Illustrated Guide to One of the Greatest Events of World War IIThe Allied landing in German-occupied Normandy on June 6, 1944 was the greatest a...

The extraordinary true story of the unlikely friendship between three women - Mussolini''s daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite - who ...

In World War II, the U.S. Army not only supplied its soldiers with the most modern equipment and uniforms, suitable for any combat situation, but w...

In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommels Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchil...

This, quite simply, is the definitive book on the life of the man who prepared the ground for victory in the Battle of Britain. Without him, Britai...

Sir Geoffrey Cox described Sidi Rezegh, fought during Operation Crusader in Libya over November and December 1941, as 'the forgotten battle of the ...

Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Pauluss 6th Army and...

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'The epic story of an iconic aircraft and the breathtaking courage of those who flew her' Andy McNab, bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero 'Compell...

The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of the Second World War. But there was another German cipher machine, used by ...

The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 abruptly ended author Jan Rosinski's student life, and propelled him into an activist if not leader...

A rediscovered classic of military history back in print for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II When William B. Dreux parachu...

As one of many artists confined in Stalag Luft III, Carl Holmstrom's superb artwork depicts life as a Kriegie created with the perspective only a p...

The librarian walks the streets of her beloved Paris. An old lady with a limp and an accent, she is invisible to most. Certainly no one recognizes ...

A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding C...