Second World War

The Second World War was the most widespread conflict in human history. Involving over 100 million people from more than thirty nations, it complet...

Every General's aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across the southern portion of the ...

The greatest airborne operation in history commenced on 17 September 1944. Nine days later nearly four out five of the British 1st Airborne Divisio...

Tank War, the new supplement for Bolt Action, gives players the option to expand their games to a whole new level armoured warfare. Recreate such ...

In autumn 1943 the Italian-held Dodecanese was the setting for the last decisive German invasion of the Second World War and the last irreversible...

Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a naïve 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As ...

Britain's Secret War tells the astonishing story of how Britain's spies, boffins and special operations teams helped to win the Second World War. T...

A unique contemporary account of the epic air battle of Malta as related by fighter pilots of No. 185 Squadron, among them Flight Lieutenant H.W. C...

The Battle of Berlin was a conflict of unprecedented scale. The Soviets massed 1,600,000 troops for Operation Berlin, and but Marshal Zhukov's his ...

Dan Cohn-Sherbok has provided us with a magisterial overview of antisemitism . . . Whatever your religion, or your politics, Cohn-Sherboks Antisemi...

D-Day, 6 June 1944; a day that has gone down in history as one of the most crucial steps towards Allied victory of the Second World War. But what i...

The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlik...

The mettle of the famous First Household Cavalry Regiment was tested to the maximum in action in the mountains of Italy in 194344. This book explor...

In 1941 air gunner Sergeant Jack Newtons Wellington is hit by flak on his first bombing raid over Germany. Miraculously, the skipper makes an emerg...

When Britain declared war on Nazi Germany in 1939, it did not come as a surprise. Hitlers remilitarisation and repudiation of the Treaty of Versail...

One of The 30 Best Travel and Adventure Books of All Time, as selected by Gear Patrol, Winner 2015 US Travel and Adventure website. Fighter Pilot w...

The safe exchange of wounded or gravely ill prisoners of war, protected personnel medical staff and clergy and diplomats, civilians and alien int...

The armies of the Third Reich were a formidable foe for the Allied forces - largely thanks to the effectiveness of their equipment and weaponry. In...

During the final days of the Second World War, for 900 Allied officers, held by the Germans in Oflag IX A/H and Oflag IX A/Z, freedom was still a w...

Fleet Air Arm Handbook is the most comprehensive review available of the Royal Navys air power during the war years. Starting with a brief history,...

At the outbreak of the Second World War the government short-sightedly allowed thousands of miners to enlist in the armed services. By 1943 the war...

Hastings was often bombed during the Second World War. John Bristow, describing a raid on 23 May 1943 says 'There was a god-almighty explosion and ...

An incredible and important story, finally being told - Mishal Husain On 28 May 1940, Major Akbar Khan marched at the head of 299 soldiers along a ...

When war was declared in September 1939, young people around the world were expected to put on a uniform and fight in a conflict not of their makin...

They called it the slaughter of the innocents. The barely trained and poorly equipped men of the Labour Divisions were never meant to fight, but wh...

Major Vic Ebbage was a Colonel with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, serving in Hong Kong in 1941, when his garrison was attacked by the Japanese Arm...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...

Men captured in war, deprived of their purpose as well as their liberty, naturally think of escape. During the Second World War, when vast numbers ...

Short Stirling: Queen of the Skies is dedicated to the RAF's first four-engine heavy bomber and is the culmination of an incredible 30 years' compr...

By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of the Japanese 15 Army crossed the inhospit...

The Second World War (193945) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. Any rags of glory...

Silver was the codename for the only quintuple spy of the Second World War, spying for the Italians, Germans, Japanese, Soviets and the British. Th...

Rumours of buried Spitfires from the Second World War have spread around the world for seventy-five years. In April 2012, the press reported that t...

Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories and one of the worst Allied defeats of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the very foun...

Robert 'Bob' Maloubier, otherwise known as the French James Bond and as Churchills Secret Agent, led a life straight out of a spy thriller. At the ...

During the Second World War, the Merchant Navy suffered a higher percentage loss than any of the British armed forces, but despite this extraordina...

The adventures of some sixty pilots and ground crewmen who flew or worked on the Spitfire during the Second World War. The Spitfire was perhaps the...

September 1940: In the midst of the Second World War, The Luftwaffe unleashed a series of devastating raids on Southampton, all but destroying its ...

They were the most unlikely siblings - one, Adolf Hitler's most trusted henchman, the other a fervent anti-Nazi. Hermann Goering was a founder memb...

In May 1940 Francis Suttill was commissioned into the East Surrey regiment of the British Army. He was later recruited by the SOE, and after being ...

This book exposes the myths surrounding the propaganda films produced during the Third Reich. One, that the Nazis were infallible masters in the us...

For every USAAF heavy bomber with ten crew members on board, it required a further thirty ground support personnel to maintain, service and get eac...

The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated sys...

The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest conflicts in the history of warfare with an estimated two million casualties. Taking place from 2...

December 1941. After setting up one of the first resistance organisations in Vichy France and escaping over the Pyrenees into Spain, brothers Henry...