Second World War

Colour photography was a rare thing in the 1930s. Various systems of colour photography had been tried, including Dufaycolour and Kodachrome but th...

The epic battle in Egypt between Britain's 'Desert Rats' and the Axis forces led by Rommel, the 'Desert Fox'. On the night of 23 October 1942 Briti...

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck was a prolific writer, historian, art critic, translator and publisher; the quintissential Bohemian fin-de-siecle arti...

George Errington was a well-known and popular test pilot from 1935 to 1955. His name appeared frequently in aviation magazines of the time and he r...

The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. It was also the crucible of combat tactics and logistic techniq...

The historic city of Chester in Cheshire, in the north-west of England, experienced tragedies and hardships during the two World Wars. In the First...

The men featured in this book originally came from Germanys big city police forces, where they had previously dealt with traffic control, street cr...

Early in the morning of 18 May 1942, three Dutchmen were captured in the North Sea and taken to MI5. It soon became clear that one in particular, J...

The strengths, weaknesses and sheer drama of airborne warfare are all encapsulated in 6th Airborne Divisions attacks on Pegasus Bridge and the Merv...

In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine r...

Li Wo had been built in 1935 for running a passenger service on the River Yangtse. In 1940, she was requisitioned and commissioned into the Royal N...

In The Royal Marines and the War at Sea 193945 military and naval historian Martin Watts records how marines fought at sea, their relationship with...

Spitfire Voices represents an important oral history of the Spitfire from the fighter pilot's perspective. Drawing upon the personal letters, diari...

This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The Afri...

D-Day was unprecedented. An invasion of this scale and magnitude had never been carried out before. The landings in North Africa, Sicily and Italy ...

'We recognised the place from the newsreels. There was a large desk covered with dust. An ornamental chandelier hung low from the ceiling. From her...

As Hitler's dreams of a Thousand Year Reich crumbled in the face of overwhelming assaults from both East and West in the first months of 1945 the h...

German soldiers assigned to guard the tiny Channel Island of Sark described it as a little Paradise and, because it was never bombed by the RAF, th...

This fascinating in-depth dossier is based on classified wartime reports issued by the US Military Intelligence Services, and examines the main wea...

Key title in the new Uniform Legends series. Up close and personal accounts of pilots who were there, first written in the 1960's when many of the ...

Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are designed to offer st...