Second World War

'The Home Guards are an attacking force lying in wait for, and ready to destroy, any enemy who dares to set foot on out shores.' The Home Guard h...

In less than one day, the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy was destroyed and four of her great aircraft carriers sank burning into the dark dept...

Here is the shockin gstory behind the covert activity that shaped the outcome of one of the world's greatest conflicts- and the desiny of millions ...

What Soldiers Do presents a devastating new perspective on the Greatest Generation and the liberation of France, one in which the US military use t...

- Private Sidney Phillips- First Lieutenant Austin Shofner- Ensign Vernon Micheel- Private Eugene Sledge- Sergeant John BasiloneThrough the eyes of...

Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42.Most people think that England's las...

The Holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. An understanding of the ...

The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After starting to arrive...

October 1944: Soviet troops launched a powerful attack on Budapest from the south, the culmination of a series of military, political, diplomatic a...

From best-selling author of A Brilliant Little Operation, winner of the British Army Military History prize and the Royal marines History prize for...

Illustrated with detailed artworks of American, British, Canadian, Australian, French, Polish and other Western Allied nations tanks and their mark...

A unique perspective of the global history of U-boats during the entirety of the Second World War by Lawrence Paterson, one of the worlds leading U...

'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane As war looms, can they kee...

In Russia's War: 1941-1945, Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of t...

Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World...

Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Sovie...

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Welcomed as the first book about American submarines in World War II to be written by a man who actually fought them, this compelling personal acco...

From the U-boat plagued convoys in the North Atlantic to the beaches of Normandy and the Big Three Conference at Yalta, twenty-eight men and women ...

'Awe inspiring, exciting and poignant, this is a thrilling read, a piece of redemptive storytelling and a work of important Holocaust historical re...

The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabela German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division, and foug...

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan for invading the Soviet Union, has by now become a familiar tale of overreach, with the Germans blinded to thei...

Harnessing the Sky is one of the best untold stories in 100 years of naval aviation. This biography fills an important void in the history of fligh...

The Purge of the Thirtieth Division by Major General Henry Dozier Russell is the only known written work by any of the eighteen National Guard divi...

The Mediterranean Sea was the most intensely contested body of water in World War II. As the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa mee...