Second World War

* Features his decorated service in World War I, postwar duties in Japan, and role in the Korean War * Perfect complement to narrative accounts...

As June began, the situation in France was bleak for the Allies. With the evacuation of the BEF, the French Army and remaining British troops were ...

On August 19, 1943, two days after the famous Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid, bombers and fighters of the U.S. Eighth Air Force launched attacks again...

Low-level strikes by British torpedo-bombers against enemy naval vessels ranked among the most dangerous aerial tactics developed during World War ...

During the 1930''s, while Hitler and other dictators brought their boot heels down on Europe and Asia, many Americans looked the other way. Some, h...

Before Allied soldiers set foot on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, American and British bombers helped pave the way by pounding Ger...

The Knight''s Cross of the Iron Cross was principally the highest award given to German fighters to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or succes...

The severe casualties suffered by American forces on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, have led to the nickname Bloody Omaha. Why were the casu...

Military historian Joseph Balkoski, named the top living D-Day historian by USA Today, continues his acclaimed history of the U.S. 29th Infantry ...

This classic of military history tells the exciting story of the fall of St. Lo, the first major objective of the invading American armies in Norma...

In early 1942, following a string of successes, the Japanese seized nearly 10,000 American soldiers, among them Pvt. Oscar Smith, on Manila Bay and...

Aviation journalist Nicholas Veronico, author of Boneyard Nose Art, presents a detailed visual history of the well-known U.S. Eighth Air Force and ...

A vivid, eye-witness account of the fall of France and the how to Total War. In War in the West Mr. Vilroy gives us the premier authoritatively ...

Intrigued by hints of the bigger man behind the war personality of Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., the Curator of History of the West Point Museum an...

This startling book reveals the military and political plans of the Axis in the very words of its own generals and admirals. The advent of Adolf ...

By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces ...

From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day comes the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.'Rich in detail and drama. Enthra...

Special Forces Commander is the remarkable story of Peter Wand-Tetley's wartime service in the Army Commandos, the Long Range Desert Group, SAS, SO...

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have res...

''The best book about the subject I have ever read'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times''Halik Kochanski''s Resistance reads less like a work of history an...

June 6th, 1944, Norman beaches situated between Ouistreham and Sainte-Marie-du-Mount entered the history books of the humanity under their respecti...