Second World War

The Royal Air Force and her Commonwealth allies were thrust into war in 1939 with an ill equipped structure of aircrew and aircraft. There had been...

From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band of women came togeth...

In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme during the war. Interned in an En...

The product of a lifetimes reflection, The Last Escaper is Peter Tunstall's unforgettable memoir of his days in the RAF and as one of the most cele...

A major new TV series - MASTERS OF THE AIR How America's bomber boys and girls in England won their war, and how their English allies responded to ...

A unique insight into the U-boat war in World War II, focusing on FAGr 5, the Luftwaffe's only long-range maritime reconnaissance and U-boat cooper...

Enthralling stories of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down in the sea during World War II and those who rescued them. The RAFs Air Se...

The Sturmgeschütz, or StuG, as it is more popularly known, while conceived as self-propelled, infantry support artillery, in time, formed the backb...

A fresh exploration of the Second World War through twelve key events that shaped the conflict The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-D...

This lavishly illustrated volume details the design, development and operational history of US-made tanks in British service in the Second World Wa...

The Bismarck is perhaps the most famous and notorious warship ever built. Completed in 1941, the 45,000-ton German battleship sank HMS Hood, the ...

A comprehensive history of the legendary armoured vehicles of the Panzerwaffe, Germany's most famous fighting force. The first two volumes of the ...

This is a thorough study and exposition of the last work for which St Bonaventure was responsible before his death in 1274. The Collations on the H...