Second World War

A remarkable insight into the training and techniques of Allied agents operating behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Most wars have ha...

Leslie Skinner was born in 1911 and ordained as a Methodist Minister in 1941, the same year he also married and was commissioned as an Army Chaplai...

From the top ten bestselling author of Normandy 44 and Sicily 43The Second World War is the most cataclysmic and violent sequence of events in rece...

In this memoir he vividly describes living in London at that time, and how he witnessed the almost daily air battles over the city and the devastat...

This work explores the experiences of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch, authors who served in the German army during World War II, were capt...

One of the greatest and most terrible years in world history.This war has now assumed the character, wrote Benito Mussolini, before 1941 was six mo...

Brings the inherent danger of flying the Corsair to life through photographs and interviews of 15 WWII combat veteran Corsair pilots. The Voug...

This volume examines the history and development of the Ju 188 twin-engined aircraft, the Luftwaffe''s attempt to enhance and improve its peerless ...

What a brilliant book this is a terrific narrative of Hitlers Ardennes offensive of December 1944 superb storytelling that achieves a skilful bala...

While much has been written about the Battle of Britain, the air war over France and the Low Countries from September 1939 to June 1940 has been la...

Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing.Except When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, peo...

Cousins, Captain Chris Waters of the Royal Engineers and Captain Jimmy Johnson of the Royal Welch Fusiliers were with the British Expeditionary For...

After the Second World War, war crimes prosecutors charged two of King George VI''s closest German relatives with ''crimes against humanity''. Amer...

After the Second World War, war crimes prosecutors charged two of King George VIs closest German relatives with crimes against humanity. American s...

The Wirral Peninsula in north-west England experienced the tragedies and hardships of war at first hand during the two world wars. Many residents l...

While the heroic exploits of The Few of Fighter Command are rightly lauded, those of The Many of Bomber Command often remain overlooked. Night afte...

The Final Curtain: Burma 1941-1945 comprises interviews with some of the very few surviving veterans of this most arduous of campaigns. In their ow...

He who holds Hill 112 holds Normandy' seemed an unlikely maxim when the hill is viewed from a distance, but on reaching its plateau, the vistas unf...

The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century. A Jewish homosexual living o...

Part history book and part travel guide, D-Day Gunners is aimed at anyone interested in the artillery on the D-Day beaches and landing grounds. Whi...

The M3 Lee was America's first mass-produced combat tank. Its unusual configuration of hull-mounted 75 mm gun and turret-mounted 37 mm cannon was a...

Despite the limitations of the Washington Naval Treaty, USS Indianapolis was an imposing warship. She was widely used by US dignitaries in the 1930...

Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents the critically acclaimed biography with never-b...

Following the successful landings in Normandy on D-Day and consolidation during Operation Cobra, the Wehrmacht was ordered to begin a counter-offen...

A highly illustrated updated study of Pattons daring attempt to bounce the river Rhine in March 1945. In January 1945, the collapse of the German ...

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

A Nazi resistance story like none youve ever heard or read. Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate GroundEvery page is gripping, ...

A commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the WWII victory, 'Victory' covers the war through breaking news stories and photographs from the Associ...

Did Hitler - code name: `Grey Wolf' - really die in 1945? In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international jo...