Second World War

The greatest deception of the Second World War and possibly in the whole of military history took place in April 1943 when a body was found float...

On 20 September 1944, a force of US paratroopers launched a desperate, near suicidal river crossing in an effort to reach their airborne brethren t...

The battle of the Falaise Pocket, fought during World War II from 1221 August 1944, was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. Taking i...

During World War II, thousands of Native Americans took part in the crusade for the defence of freedom and democracy in all theatres of operation: ...

The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius t...

Monograph commemorating German photojournalist Werner Bischof (1916-1954), who reported on devastation in Germany, France and the Netherlands after...

Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DI...

The events of a few days in August 1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half...

The attack on London between 1939 and 1945 is one of the most significant events in the city's modern history, the impact of which can still be see...

This is the Second World War career of the longest serving double agent in the Double Cross system, Harry Williamson. Harry operated from September...

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO TRULY SEPARATE FACT FROM MYTH AND LEGEND. The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy figh...

Barbara Harper-Nelson was once the nineteen-year-old girlfriend of twenty-two-year-old French airman Francis Usai, who served in the RAF Bomber Com...

I saw a mass of ME 109s and went up to attack. I looked behind and found three on each side diving to attack me. Bob Doe, Combat Report 16 August 1...

After the United States entry into the Second World War in 1941, their war department realised that, due to the increasing dominance of air power, ...

Very Special Agent Fifi was described as one of the most expert liars in the world. Employed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Churchills ...

Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of...

Marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, this commemorative book recalls the momentous events that culminated in a ferocious and uniq...

As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty...

In August 1941 Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and President Roosevelt (1882-1945) met secretly on HMS Prince of Wales, moored just off the coast of ...

The Second World War is without parallel in human history. The sheer carnage is staggering, with some estimating over 80 million people died as a r...

World War Two From Above tells the amazing story of the daring photo-reconnaissance flyers and backroom boffins whose role was key in helping the A...

During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes. In response to the severe air threat that surface ships faced, n...

The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of th...

The complete story of the Imperial Japanese Army's stunning victory over the British forces during World War II For the British Empire it was a mi...

Inspired by the exploits of the German Fallschirmjäger in the blitzkrieg campaigns, Winston Churchill called for the formation of a 5,000-strong Ai...

Nazi Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and five days later Krakow fell. Hans Frank's General Government then subjected the Polish and Jews...

This compelling new study of the Battle of the River Plate concentrates on Kapitan zur See Hans Langsdorff, the commander of the German pocket batt...

An inventive study of relations between the National Guard and the Regular Army during World War II, Guard Wars follows the Pennsylvania National G...

In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of ...

This unique account of the Second World contains extraordinary colour photographs documenting Japan's rise and fall: from its forced entrance onto ...

The extraordinary and compelling story of the 6th of June, 1944, and the Battle for Normandy is told here through first-hand testimonies from civil...

The Special Operations Executive (SOE), also known as 'Churchill's Secret Army' or the 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare', was born from Churchill...

The Allied forces'' actions in and around Monte Cassino in Italy remain some of the most controversial of the Second World War. Adolf Hitler descri...

The outbreak of war in 1939 saw the disappearance of many traditional British celebrations. Guy Fawkes Night went immediately gunpowder production...

The Ardennes, 1944. Driven back by the Allies since D-Day, Germany launches a surprise offensive on the Western Front. This assault against the u...