Second World War

When Eagles Dared is a salute to the men and women who participated in World War II and the filmmakers who have immortalised their stories on scree...

As the main interpreter for Adolf Hitler during the key prewar moments, such as the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of War and the surren...

Formed in 1916, 41 Squadron is one of the oldest Royal Air Force squadrons in existence. The unit saw service in the First World War, on Policing D...

One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese, said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it the most forbidding fighting countr...

Bursting with exciting full-colour illustrations, colour artwork and contemporary photographs, this is a handy, complete guide to the most famous m...

During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous ...

With the Third Reich on the brink of defeat Hitler's instructions to his designers were clear. He wanted a Volksjäger a People's Fighter that was ...

As Europe descended into war the newly formed state of Croatia found itself an ally in Nazi Germany. Tens of thousands of Croatians volunteered for...

With stunning artwork and detailed analysis, this volume provides a pilots view of the dramatic clashes between these two legendary fighters, as so...

Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad. This volume tells the other, equally important h...

A fascinating account of the feat of logistics which it took to supply of the hard fighting 53rd Welsh division from Normandy to Hamburg. A limite...

In this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 3...

During World War II, aviation was among the largest industrial branches of the Third Reich. About 40 percent of total German war production, and...

When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldnt accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith Skeets Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and ...

No One Avoided Danger is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on t...

A lasting tribute to the USS Enterprise, this heavily illustrated, new edition tells the classic tale of the carrier that contributed more than any...

Beginning with the D-day landings, this is a brutally frank appraisal of the planned use and actual results of the deployment of armour by both Ger...

On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save themselves and their submarine after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent...

For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when...

In January 1942, the Declaration by United Nations forged a military alliance based on human rights principles that included over 24 countries, mar...

William Francis Blackadder was a pilot of No. 607 Squadron, one of only two Auxiliary Air Force squadrons posted across the Channel during the illf...

In 1939, seventeen-year-old Austrians Jacob Silverman and Rachael Goldberg are bright, talented, and deeply in love. Because they are Jews, their f...

Wealth and family privilege are no match for the brutal forward march of two armies intent on eliminating each other. As a teenager, Anastasia Sapo...

Between the grinding battles of the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa and the finality of the atomic bomb strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U...

From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide is a history of the critical campaigns of WorldWar II that highlights the visible turning point battles...

Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secretThe men and women of the Y (for Wireless ) Service were sent out across t...

The massacre and destruction of Civitella on 29 June, 1944 by the 1st Fallschirm Panzer Division 'Herman Goring' as reprisal for the shooting of th...

Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories o...

...It is remarkable that one man should have been involved in so much action in so few years...I commend his biography to the reader: ...by any sta...

David Balme will be forever known as the 20-year-old hero who, on 9 May 1941, boarded a German U-boat in mid-Atlantic, and captured one of the grea...

Monty's desert legions - 7th Armoured Division, 51st Highland Division and 50th Northumbrian Division - helped him win at El Alamein and throughout...

On August 1, 1944, Leokadia Rowinski and fellow members of the Polish Resistance movement 1saw the culmination of their five years of training--...

The Freckleton catastrophe of August 23, 1944, occurred when an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the small village of Freckleton in north west ...

Over the past seventy years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a ma...

Facing Armageddon is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real nature of the participan...

Hugh Warren West was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, during the height of the Second World War. After nearly two years of intensive training...

Conceived in desperation after the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945, Germany's Operation Nordwind culminated in the frozen Alsatian fields surro...