Second World War

In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel...

Located by the Baltic near the town of Barth in Western Pomerania, Germany, Stalag Luft I was one of a number of Stammlager Luftwaffe, these being ...

14 August 1940, which Hitler code-named Adlertag, or Eagle Day, was fated to become one of the most significant days in the Battle of Britain. It s...

Infamous Nazi war criminal Dr Aribert Heim carried out grotesque, sadistic medical experiments on Jewish prisoners at the Mauthausen concentration ...

The invasion has begun. In this gripping book, Jonathan Mayo gives a blow by blow account of the events of D-Day, revealing what happened to the pe...

A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which s...

A study of the Macchi Folgore and Veltro, the most successful Italian fighters in World War II. With specially commissioned profiles, the book exam...

Written by one of the worlds leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitlers Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers attack on Po...

A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine...

An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units again...

World War II is one of the first conflicts to be extensively recorded in detail by both combatants and journalists, and many iconic photos of the f...

Winner of The Page Turner Non-Fiction Book Award, The Page Turner Golden Author Award, and The Page Turner Best Book Award in True Stories What mak...

From the summer of 1940 until May 1941, nearly twenty German Abwehr agents were dropped by boat or parachute into England during what was known as ...

Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North...

General Stilwell's ad hoc force of Merrill's Marauders, American-trained Chinese divisions, Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate's Chindits conduc...

This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy''s failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that t...

For almost four desperate years, from 1939 to the middle of 1943, the British and, in time, American navies fought a savage, losing battle against ...

The German armoured forces lost some 10,000 armoured fighting vehicles. Today there are very few surviving vehicles from the Wehrmacht. We are for...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping untold story of one of the most heroic units that fought i...

Protesters called it an act of war when the U.S. Coast Guard sank a Canadian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929. It took a cool-headed...

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...

The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina woman who was one of the top spies for the Allies during World War II, stas...

WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE A gripping reconstruction utterly compelling reading. Adam Zamoyski...

Ten years after the close of World War II, the U.S. Navy published achronology of its operations in the war. Long out of print, the work focused on...

No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as the man who won the war for us, referring to the landing craft he perfected. Tho...

In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing...

Norwich in the Second World War is the story of the city and its people, both civilian and military, from the construction of the first air raid sh...

Released in 1969, the film _Battle of Britain_ went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected Brit...

This book brings together the best and most iconic fighters of World War II, pitted against one another in desperate aerial combat. The battle for...

In a mountain resort in the Alps, Hitler built his 'Eagle's Nest' from which he conceived and directed the war. Skiing resorts were turned into tra...

The enduring popularity of the BBC TV series Dads Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed the Bri...

A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical...

After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics. Many were shipped to concentration camps; those deemed most dangerous...

This is the inspiring and charming true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants - a 500-pound cigarettesmoking, beer-drinkin...

What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed benefits? How were they r...

After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats, along with their staffs and families, were relocated to two lavish but isolated reso...

Romania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Gran...