Second World War

Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division b...

In Hitlers Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmlers secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the ...

In Down to Earth, Nancy Cooper gives us a glimpse into the real life of a seventeen year old young woman who is recruited into the Womens Land Army...

A fully illustrated study of the defensive struggle for the Kuban bridgehead on the Eastern Front of World War II, where the Red Army repulsed a se...

Highly recommended as a sobering but enlightening account. - Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Japanese Empire In the 44 months...

In Bonzo's War, Clare Campbell told the fascinating story of what it was like for Britain's pets when the world was at war. This time, she follows ...

This pocket manual focusing on the most famous aircraft of all time presents an accessible collection of fascinating historical documents which giv...

A remarkable and important story BBC Radio 4 Woman''s Hour Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforge...

A remarkable and important story BBC Radio 4 Woman's HourUnputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettab...

Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced int...

On the morning of April 3, 1941, 'Orlando Mazzotta', a man posing as an Italian diplomat, walked up the steps of the German Foreign Office on the W...

In the aftermath of World War II, more than 4,500 Polish veterans, displaced by war and the Soviet-oriented Polish government, were resettled in Ca...

Sheila Millss story is a unique perspective of the Second World War. She is a clever, middle-class Norfolk girl with a yen for adventure and joins ...

It was inevitable that the Allies would invade France in the summer of 1944: the Nazis just had to figure out where and when. This job fell to the ...

Late in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing ...

Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. The struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylv...

Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time...

On 14 October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, one of the British navys top battleships, was destroyed at the Royal Navys main anchorage at Scapa Flow, Orkney....

''But we will do what we have always done - just get on with it.''The contributions of Northern Ireland to allied efforts in the Second World War a...

As a British airman of the Second World War, Jim Auton dropped bombs on enemy targets all over central and eastern Europe. He was also engaged in a...

In this vivid memoir, Douglas Model tells the incredible true story of his wartime childhood in Wembley amidst the horrors of the Blitz. Contrastin...

Ursula Matthews was born in Transylvania, in 1943. Her story; this story, covers European historical events, which shattered her family and communi...

A rusting anti-aircraft fort in the North Sea. A German submarine base in France. A Flak tower in a Viennese park more than 70 years after the end...

During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British ...

Why has the peoples war been such a durable and attractive myth? Creating the peoples war examines how civil defence personnel engaged with this na...

The basic concept is a series of books each of which will focus on one RAF Command during World War Two. Format for each one will be the same, whic...

The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining R...

When the Burma campaign is discussed, the turning point battles of Imphal and Kohima are most often thought of. However General Bill Slims bold but...

If ever there was a real pilot's aeroplane it was the Hunter, an outstanding multi-purpose aircraft which excelled in the roles of interceptor figh...

On 27 May 1940, in the hamlet of Le Paradis, in northern France, almost a hundred soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment were murdered. After a res...

The armoured reconnaissance units were the spearheads of Hitler's Panzer divisions, moving stealthily ahead of the tanks to locate the enemy. Otto ...