Second World War

The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by t...

Slim's Burma Boys relates the personal experiences of men who fought the Forgotten War of the Burma campaign. Hill wanted his readers to know what ...

Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2 'Extraordinary ...If they had not made our war their war also, victory might not have...

Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure e...

The Rubber Soldiers were an army of 55,000 men from the Brazilian northeast, who were sent to the Amazon basin to harvest rubber for the Allied War...

Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments.Twentieth century warfar...

The Crimean Peninsula was the setting for the destruction of a number of armies in World War II, both Soviet and German. When the Soviets fortifie...

A gripping history of Britains Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Reg...

This lavishly illustrated volume details the design, development and operational history of the British-made tanks in World War II. Plagued by unr...

The Kursk campaign was the major German offensive of 1943 and the last strategic offensive the Germans were to launch on the Eastern Front in World...

Josephine Baker (19061975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer ...

Kirsty Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautifu...

The definitive study of the topic. --Prof. Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian, POL...

Here is a fascinating record of the British Pacific Fleet during the Second World War, in particular the closing years of conflict with Japan and t...