Second World War

In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend t...

From Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades, Engineers of Victory...

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model Aryan society in Norway during World War IIB...

The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although ...

Franklin Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews. FDR's promise of economic and social justice was consonant with the mainstays of Jewi...

The seizure of Pegasus Bridge by six glider borne platoons of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John Howard very early...

Published in association with the Imperial War Museums, this book will provide the ultimate challenge to even the most knowledgeable military histo...

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on ...

Denby & District in the First and Second World Wars: Their Ultimate Sacrifice, commemorates and celebrates the lives of the soldiers from this ...

In the many historical accounts of D-Day, the Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine, who transported troops to the invasion beaches and supporte...

Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and the Wolfson History PrizeIn March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire he...

By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained. The shortest way home for American troops was towards Berli...

The factors leading to the defeat of the Axis Powers in World War II have been debated for decades. One prevalent view is that overwhelming Alli...

While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives ...

America's Few delves into the history of US Marine Corps aviation in World War II, following the feats of the Corps top-scoring aces in the skies o...

Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communi...

In June 1942, the U.S. Army began recruiting immigrants, the children of immigrants, refugees, and others with language skills and knowledge of ene...

This new book reveals the part played by the eight Bustler Class Rescue Tugs built at the Henry Robb Shipyard during the Second World War and will ...

A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day. The USAAFs m...

On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses a...

A highly detailed illustrated history of one of the most famous tanks of World War II the German Panther. Often considered the most elegant tank ...

Since ancient times, music has demonstrated the incomparable ability to touch and resonate with the human spirit as a tool for communication, em...

It is now more than 40 years since Fighters over the Desert was published, and nearly as long since this was followed by Fighters over Tunisia. Bot...

Breaking the Silence: Lessons of Democracy from the World War II Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp in Hawaii is a collection of articles authored ...

This book looks at WWII from a largely British perspective, based upon approximately 350 photographs from the archives of Mirrorpix. It takes a loo...

This fascinating millitary history tells the intriguing tale of the bitter and attritional Winter War between the USSR and Finland in the midst of ...

Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His...

This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff ...

Lee Miller photographed innumerable women during her career, first as a fashion photographer and then as a journalist during the Second World War, ...

The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two, alongside D-Day and Staling...

In the 1930s, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was a distinguished scholar and vocal pacifist. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he had a change of heart...

Peter Caddick-Adams - one of the leading military historians of his generation - reviews one of the great final engagements of WW2: The Battle of t...

Just over a million people 923,000 men and 86,000 women served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. They enlisted after a huge recruitm...

Until 1945, Indonesia was a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East Indies. In 1930, the area had over 60 million inhabitants and was a major ex...