Second World War

A rediscovered classic of military history back in print for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II When William B. Dreux parachu...

In this unique history from below, Destination Elsewhere chronicles encounters between displaced persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were...

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERThe great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the cla...

Cezar Danon was taken to a concentration camp with his family in 1942 when he was just 13 years old. They survived the camp and years in hiding bef...

Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the...

As German troops entered Paris following their victory in June 1940, the American journalist William L. Shirer observed that they carried cameras a...

During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Na...

In Soldiers of a Different Cloth, New York Times best-selling author and military historian John Wukovits tells the inspiring story of thirty-five ...

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past eventsit is often c...

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during ...

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past eventsit is often c...

It''s long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born...that at some point each year the dead will come home, Inara Verzemnieks wri...

The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse...

How do you get students to engage in a historical episode or era? How do you bring the immediacy and contingency of history to life? Michael A. Bar...

At the end of World War I, the United States Armydespite its recent experience with trenches, machine guns, barbed wire, airplanes, and even tanksm...

We often picture life on the Canadian home front as a time of austerity, as a time when women went to work and men went to war. A Small Price to Pa...

Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of ...

Ellen Cassedys longing to recover the Yiddish shed lost with her mothers death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the Jerusalem of the North. As...

In 1945, Germany experienced the greatest outburst of deadly violence that the world has ever seen. Germany 1945 examines the country's emergence f...

The Munich Crisis of 1938 had major diplomatic as well as personal and psychological repercussions. As much as it was a climax in the clash between...

The Second World War prompted the recruitment and training of British soldiers on a scale never seen since. Physical training, sports, recreational...

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. With political agreements in place to come to Polands aid, Britain and France both declared war on Ger...

It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Gunne, the German village close to the Mohne Dam, heard the airraid warnings...