Second World War

Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertak...

In 1946, Abram Games left the War Office armed with this testimonial: His work had to be subtly persuasive, or directly propagandist but it was a...

Theres no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influen...

Two historians--one American and one British--examine the ways in which rivalries and personality conflicts among Allied commanders adversely affec...

Now available in English for the first time, a controversial work that indicts the Vatican for its actions before and during World War II. In the ...

As expansive as it is personal, this chronicle of World War II is a firsthand account by a journalist and the woman he would marry of the dramatic ...

An account of twelve pivotal days in 1941, when a chain of interlinked events changed world history In far-flung locations around the globe, an unp...

Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In w...

At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. What will you call it? he was asked. The First World...

1.5 million Polish civilians - arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 - ...

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic, to attack Allied shipping. The ...

The Royal Navy battleship HMS Rodney was one of the most famous warships of the Second World War and remains a legend in the pantheon of naval hist...