Second World War

An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of W...

An detailed illustrated exploration of the Japanese raid into the Indian Ocean in April 1942 one of the largest operations conducted by the Imperi...

The first ever illustrated study of the largest and most significant clash between the Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina. The Battle of Mata...

During the Second World War, the Germans considered the Royal Artillery to be the most professional arm of the British Army: British gunners were a...

During World War 2, Hitlers engineers had pioneered an incredible array of futuristic secret weapons, from the Me 262, the first operational jet fi...

The Avro Lancaster has endured as a legendary icon of British strategic airpower from the Second World War, the ultimate aerial asset. Tough, rugge...

They were not your typical World War II soldiers. Most were not in particularly good physical shape, and many had trouble handling their weapons. T...

Defying Vichy takes us into the heart of the French Resistance: the Dordogne region (in) this moving account of the darkest and brightest period in...

When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he foun...