Second World War

The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining R...

When the Burma campaign is discussed, the turning point battles of Imphal and Kohima are most often thought of. However General Bill Slims bold but...

If ever there was a real pilot's aeroplane it was the Hunter, an outstanding multi-purpose aircraft which excelled in the roles of interceptor figh...

On 27 May 1940, in the hamlet of Le Paradis, in northern France, almost a hundred soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment were murdered. After a res...

The armoured reconnaissance units were the spearheads of Hitler's Panzer divisions, moving stealthily ahead of the tanks to locate the enemy. Otto ...

On January 27, 1962, a concert at the Maly Theatre in Leningradisinterrupted by a gunshot and an ex-state prisonerisarrested. At the police station...

'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane As war looms, can they kee...

The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this ...

While the heroic exploits of The Few of Fighter Command are rightly lauded, those of The Many of Bomber Command often remain overlooked. Night afte...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written...

Sydney Litherland, at the age of 20, was called up in February 1940. After having been evacuated from Greece, he was among the 30,000 British and C...

This book examines the landscape archaeology of the Second World War on the section of the east coast of England known as the Suffolk Sandlings (th...

In defiance of the regulations, Bob Boscawen kept his daily account of his war from Normandy through to Germany where, seriously wounded, he was th...

In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the ...

George S. Patton was a colourful war leader and an eminently complex character; adored by some, but hated by others, he would lead the 3rd U.S. Arm...

A twelve-year-old boy named Peisach is snatched from his home in a shtetl near Vitebsk in 1842 and marched far away to be prepared for 25 years of ...

There is much to commend this study. Emily Greble capitalizes on a recent historiographical trend which prioritizes the local to observe the nation...

Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation dur...