Second World War

Unlike other historical depictions of the fall of the Third Reich, German Accounts from the Dying Days of the Third Reich presents the authentic vo...

Within seventeen years of the first public broadcast in Britain, the nation again found itself at war. As the Second World War progressed, the BBC ...

Syndrome K is the story of how 80 per cent of Italys Jews escaped the Holocaust, with the help of their fellow countrymen, the Allies and even some...

'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pikes moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-su...

Operation Foxley was the name of the secret plan supported by Winston Churchill to assassinate Hitler in 1944-45. More than 75 years after its conc...

Born to a middle-class Viennese family and of partly Jewish descent, after marriage to (and divorce from) a German prince Stephanie von Hohenlohe b...

Hailed as the single most effective pilot at Midway (World War II magazine), Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of...

Known affectionately as Dads Army, the Home Guard was Britains very serious attempt to protect our shores from invasion by Nazi Germany in the Seco...

The McGonigal brothers, Eoin and Ambrose were fiercely independent characters. Born and educated in southern Ireland to a catholic family but raise...

The Author, who as a senior member of Mrs Thatcher's Government was tragically assassinated by the IRA, had the most distinguished of war records. ...

In the dying months of the Second World War on 31 January 1945, the first Red Army troops reached the River Oder, barely forty miles from Berlin. E...

The last British Governor of Spandau Allied Prison puts the record straight about the final years of Rudolf Hess' life, and his ultimate suicide wh...

From its onset, the Second World War changed the course of many couples lives as they were parted, not knowing if they would ever see their partner...

War in the Wilderness is the most comprehensive account ever published of the human aspects of the Chindit war in Burma. The word Chindit will alwa...

E.J. Rudsdales role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect o...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Britains manpower crisis forced them to turn to a previously untapped resource: women. For years it was th...

Mike Morgan presents 25 stories about the larger-than-life exploits of the SAS and SBS in World War II, supported by a selection of rare archive an...

Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into his 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He ...

During World War II over 400,000 Germans and Italians were held in prison camps in Britain. These men played a vital part in the life of war-torn B...

Although not in the front line of the Second World War, East Devon had its share of privation. It was home to many evacuees, some of whom stayed in...

It is no surprise that the Air Ministry chose an author of H.E. Bates' talents to portray the battle over the night skies of Britain whilst the war...

SHE CAN'T HAVE A FUTURE UNTIL SHE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO HER FAMILY AFTER THE WAR.'Deeply moving and beautifully written' ANN CLEEVES'Heart-breakin...

This book tells in detail what it was like to live in an English town constantly under siege from enemy guns in the Second World War. Many towns in...

In 1943, as war raged along the Eastern Front, the German forces attempted to push further east in the brutal Operation Citadel, which saw one of t...

Black propaganda appears over a fake signature, for example of a fictitious resistance organisation. In this book, the author examines the 'black a...

A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the...

On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the Army reporte...

The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover ...

Winston Churchill is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century. In this stimulating and original book, David Dilks presents Churchill, not ...

Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britains fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the ...

Award-winning historian Mike Walling captures the essence of the Arctic Convoys of World War II. In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the ...

When American troops arrived in Paris to help maintain order at the end of the Second World War they were, at first, received by the local populati...

German leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most controversial politicians and military commanders in all recorded history. As such, his ...

Following the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, at which the Americans refused to back Britain's plan to invade the Dodecanese Islands in the ...

Englishman Thomas Kitching died, aged 54, in Changi Prison in April 1944. Interned by the Japanese in 1942, Kitching, who was the Chief Surveyor of...

From 1939 to 1945 a generation of German men sacrificed their youth for the wrong cause and then rejoined a society that wanted to forget the horro...

In 1942 a Catalina crew of 210 Squadron, based at Sullom Voe in the Shetlands, was selected to carry out a series of highly secret operations, incl...

Andree Griotteray was only nineteen years old when the Germans invaded France. During the four years of Occupation she transformed from a teenager ...

41 Squadron RAF is one of the oldest RAF Squadrons in existence, having celebrated its 95th Anniversary in 2011. The unit has seen service from the...

During the autumn of 1944, three RAF raids - using Avro Lancaster heavy bombers - finally sank the German battleship Tirpitz. Many previous att...

Soldiers with Spanners is unique in that it tells the story of the men in the USAAF's 2nd Air Division during WWII, and better still, it shows it i...

During World War 2, the Merchant Navy's main task was to run the German blockade, bringing essential food, fuel and materials to a besieged nation....

In 2003, a heavy parcel posted from New Zealand arrived at a bungalow in Rawmarsh, Near Rotherham,Yorkshire. The parcel consisted of a huge, typewr...

Rarely does a piece of history emerge to tell a significant tale after nearly 70 years in a bedroom drawer. Recovered and brought back to Britain i...

This is the second volume, but the last to be published of a trilogy - the other volumes being Smashing the Atlantic Wall and The Battle of the B...