Second World War

On January 27, 1962, a concert at the Maly Theatre in Leningradisinterrupted by a gunshot and an ex-state prisonerisarrested. At the police station...

'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane As war looms, can they kee...

The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this ...

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 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written...

Sydney Litherland, at the age of 20, was called up in February 1940. After having been evacuated from Greece, he was among the 30,000 British and C...

This book examines the landscape archaeology of the Second World War on the section of the east coast of England known as the Suffolk Sandlings (th...

In defiance of the regulations, Bob Boscawen kept his daily account of his war from Normandy through to Germany where, seriously wounded, he was th...

In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the ...

George S. Patton was a colourful war leader and an eminently complex character; adored by some, but hated by others, he would lead the 3rd U.S. Arm...

A twelve-year-old boy named Peisach is snatched from his home in a shtetl near Vitebsk in 1842 and marched far away to be prepared for 25 years of ...

There is much to commend this study. Emily Greble capitalizes on a recent historiographical trend which prioritizes the local to observe the nation...

Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation dur...

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...

In this unique history from below, Destination Elsewhere chronicles encounters between displaced persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were...

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERThe great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the cla...

Cezar Danon was taken to a concentration camp with his family in 1942 when he was just 13 years old. They survived the camp and years in hiding bef...

Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the...

As German troops entered Paris following their victory in June 1940, the American journalist William L. Shirer observed that they carried cameras a...

During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Na...

In Soldiers of a Different Cloth, New York Times best-selling author and military historian John Wukovits tells the inspiring story of thirty-five ...

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past eventsit is often c...

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during ...

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past eventsit is often c...

It''s long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born...that at some point each year the dead will come home, Inara Verzemnieks wri...

The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse...

How do you get students to engage in a historical episode or era? How do you bring the immediacy and contingency of history to life? Michael A. Bar...

At the end of World War I, the United States Armydespite its recent experience with trenches, machine guns, barbed wire, airplanes, and even tanksm...

We often picture life on the Canadian home front as a time of austerity, as a time when women went to work and men went to war. A Small Price to Pa...

Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of ...

Ellen Cassedys longing to recover the Yiddish shed lost with her mothers death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the Jerusalem of the North. As...

In 1945, Germany experienced the greatest outburst of deadly violence that the world has ever seen. Germany 1945 examines the country's emergence f...

The Munich Crisis of 1938 had major diplomatic as well as personal and psychological repercussions. As much as it was a climax in the clash between...

The Second World War prompted the recruitment and training of British soldiers on a scale never seen since. Physical training, sports, recreational...

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. With political agreements in place to come to Polands aid, Britain and France both declared war on Ger...

It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Gunne, the German village close to the Mohne Dam, heard the airraid warnings...

Colour photography was a rare thing in the 1930s. Various systems of colour photography had been tried, including Dufaycolour and Kodachrome but th...

The epic battle in Egypt between Britain's 'Desert Rats' and the Axis forces led by Rommel, the 'Desert Fox'. On the night of 23 October 1942 Briti...

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck was a prolific writer, historian, art critic, translator and publisher; the quintissential Bohemian fin-de-siecle arti...

George Errington was a well-known and popular test pilot from 1935 to 1955. His name appeared frequently in aviation magazines of the time and he r...