Second World War

In this second of Tim Saunders volumes on the opening stage of the 1945 Rhineland Campaign, the focus is to the north of the Reichswald, on the flo...

A compelling account of the heavily armed and highly mobile Soviet river gunboats which took on the Germans during World War II. Russia's enormous...

A unique comparison between the two most numerous British and German tank types from 1941 to 1943. Although much has been written about the Panzer...

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens....

A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy. After repulsing the Germa...

A compelling account of the failure of Imperial Japan's Operation Ro-Go, intended to take the offensive in the Solomons theater of the Pacific War,...

An exciting account of the aerial battles fought by the USAAF's P38 Lightnings and the Jagdflieger's Bf 109Gs for dominance over North Africa and t...

If asked to name a British aircraft of World War II, many people would pick the Spitfire. In production and frontline service throughout the war, t...

A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way - ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormou...

Often typified by the large tank battles of the Eastern Front, the hunt for U-boats in the Atlantic and the dogfights over European skies, the Seco...

Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in the Second World War: the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technolog...

ELYESA BAZNA WAS THE HIGHEST-PAID SPY IN HISTORY.Working for the British ambassador in Ankara in 1943, Bazna photographed top-secret documents and ...

Winner of the Society for Military Historys Distinguished Book AwardDeeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused pol...

One of the Second World Wars most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic historyIt could have all been over much quic...

'Moving, funny ... an exquisite story of love, hope, distance and, ultimately, disenchantment.' Mail on Sunday'A sad and truthful fragment of moder...

For those who lived through wartime Christmases, the celebrations during those years had an especially poignant flavour. This unique anthology recr...

Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, de...

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, everybody in Britain knew that the civilian population would be affected far more than they ...