Second World War

The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War II: Thomas Kendrick Tho...

Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victo...

Hope and opportunity can come from even the bleakest of momentsLeft homeless after the Exeter Blitz, May must find a job if shes to put a roof over...

The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany--including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg--and how they accommodated themselv...

A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history and saved thousands of American and British lives and millions of Asian lives. ...

Hanna Reitsch longed to fly. Having broken records and earned the respect of the Nazi regime, she became the first female Luftwaffe test pilot, and...

Many thousands of different types of vehicles were used by the armies during the Second World War for various roles, including the fighting vehicle...

'Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the warped ideology of ...

Examines the reputation of the Hungarian musician Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero. This book examines the reputation of the Hungari...

On March 18, 1945, the B-17G Lady Jane II lifted off from her base at Deenethorpe, England; she never returned. The story is one of deep tragedy an...

Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent parachutes do...

Captured Arms / Beutewaffen is Vol. IX in the Propaganda Photo Series on World War II German small arms. This volume is dedicated to the millions o...

''The way I look at it is this...When you''re behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you''ve got to get your bloody self out irrespective o...

Ryuji Nagatsuka did not know, when he made an application to become a pilot in October 1943, that by the following autumn Japans situation in the w...