Second World War

A revelatory and wholly fascinating work of history. Superbly researched and written with gripping fluency, this lost secret of World War II espio...

Between December 1941 and July 1945 the Allied Heads of State met nine times to decide the ongoing strategy of World War II with their chiefs of st...

Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pikes Hirohitos War offers an...

A fully illustrated and expertly researched guide to the tanks of Hitlers formidable war machine. The Panzers that rolled over Europe were Germany...

Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The bre...

An incredible insight into the origins, training and earliest operations of the special service volunteer soldiers who formed the original units of...

The first book to explore in detail the wrecks of these two vessels from Force Z which in December 1941 was sent to defend Singapore. It grippingly...

'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history ...