Second World War

The Grumman-designed TBF Avenger was unquestionably the most successful torpedo bomber in the US fleet during WWII. Developed just prior to the US ...

Chronicles the design, development, and wartime use of this famous American attack bomber. The A-20 Havoc, known to the British as the Boston,...

In Unsettled Heritage, Yechiel Weizman explores what happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places of worship that remained i...

During World War II, as Allied forces sought to combat the Axis powers by conventional military means, recent advances in nuclear science led the U...

Despite their insistence that the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops was the condition for the release of prisoners of war, the Democratic Repub...

Indianapolis is the thrilling true story of the greatest naval disaster in United States history - the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during Wo...

The de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito was one of the fastest and most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. One of the first multi-role aircraft, i...

The incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War. The Channel lslands were occupied on 30 June...

Everyone is familiar with the story of D-Day and the triumphal liberation of France by the Allies: a barbaric enemy was defeated by Allied ingenuit...

In the short span of 17 years, the first 17 years of his life, he was known as Peter Korytowski, Pierre Engglenger and Pierre Boivin, depending ...

The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Admiral Chester Nimitz unleashed a relentless 18-month, 4,000-mile offensive across the Cent...

During WWII, as Canada struggled to provide its allies with food, nutritionists warned that malnutrition could derail the war effort. Posters admon...

When Odilo Globocnik, SS and police leader in Lublin, Poland, transferred to the Italian OZAK region in late 1943, he took with him a group of arou...

Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into theDea...

Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into theDea...

This revised and expanded second edition covers USN and USMC squadrons that operated the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber as the PB4Y-1 in ...

Developed to provide the US military with a fast-moving reconnaissance vehicle sufficiently armed to knock out WWII-era armored vehicles. The M8 Ar...

A rare and unprecedented look into the lives of German U- boat captains Karl-Heinz Moehle, Reinhard Hardegen, and Horst von Schroeter. This un...

Execute against Japan should be required reading for naval officers (especially in submarine wardrooms), as well as for anyone interested in histor...

On the morning of June 6, 1944, the largest and most powerful armada of warships the world had ever seen left southern England bound for the beache...

Fighting over the beaches of Dunkirk and in the Battle of Britain, guarding the night skies during the perilous months of the Blitz, pioneering ele...

Ronald Koorm has given talks and lectures on the codebreaking outstations for several years this is the last piece of the amazing Bletchley jigsaw...

Alarmstart (scramble) charts the experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as ...

'I was happy that Coventry was selected as a target, as it was an important military objective... The night was clear and flying was easy. Missing ...

As chaplain for the US Army's 102nd Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater, Renwick C. Kennedy--Ren to those who knew him--witnessed great cou...

With its battlefields paved over and its bunkers crumbled, the Third Reich of Nazi Germany nevertheless lives on in countless photographs that r...

No published work examines General Henry H. Hap Arnolds role in depth during the Pacific War of 1944-1945, in the context of planning for the destr...

Hundreds of novels have been written about young men coming of age in war. And millions of young men have, in fact, come of age in combat. This is ...

When black journalist Vincent Roi Ottley was assigned to cover the European theatre in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other ...

World War II shaped the United States in profound ways, and this new book--the first in the Legacies of War series--explores one of the most signif...

My Father's War tells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World...

Sandwiched between Nazi Germany and the Russian Bear, Sweden walked a diplomatic tightrope on if and how it should support Finland during the Ru...

The history of the carrier that launched Jimmy Doolittle's daring raid on Tokyo and saw combat at Midway and Santa Cruz The USS Hornet (CV-8),...

The Bf 109 E Emil entered service in 1938. The aircrafts DB 601 engine transformed its performance, making the Messerschmitt fighter one of the mos...

This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then where it fough...

Using the Cabinet papers from the National Archives, former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabin...

SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the s...

Heroes in the Shadows focuses on extraordinary examples of heroism during the Second World War away from the battlefield. It specifically considers...

The Blitz of 1940-41 is one of the most iconic periods in modern British history - and one of the most misunderstood. The 'Blitz spirit' is celebra...

Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.Learn about the fall of Europe in the Second World War in one of the most successful military strategies...

For nigh-on half a century, After the Battle has been exploring and photographing the battlefields of the Second World War, but now it is time to ...

Winston and Gail Ramsey This book focuses on the systems used by the Axis powers for the governance of the countries that they occupied during the...

WRECK RECOVERY IN BRITAIN THEN AND NOW By Peter J. Moran The last 50 years have seen an incredible interest in the excavation of crashed aircraft....

The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during...

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, ...

On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scape...