Second World War

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our postCold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in ...

A history of the Soviet Navy's cruisers, from the opening shots of the October Revolution through to the combat they saw during World War II. The ...

Packed with illustrations, this is a new history and analysis of how the Royal Navy's most important fleet operated and fought the German Navy in t...

Pacific Profiles Volume 13 presents the most accurate wartime profiles and histories to date of Imperial Japanese Navy bombers, transports, flying ...

Often it is assumed that Hitlers panzers stormed into action perfectly formed, driving through the armies of the Poles in 1939 and the French in 19...

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and pr...

In the summer of 1940, a new German aircraft began appearing in the skies over the British Isles. Unlike the rest of the Luftwaffes fleet in the Ba...

Following the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, the German-Soviet non-aggression pact was officially broken. After initial successes, it q...

When America entered World War II in 1941, it was first left to the Army Air Forces to take the fight to Germany. In January 1942 the US Eighth Air...

A former Great War fighter pilot, Hermann Göring became, at his height, the second most powerful Nazi. Ambitious and ruthless, in addition to being...

If the machine gun changed the course of ground combat in the First World War, it was the tank that shaped ground combat in World War II. The tank ...

An accurate, exciting diary-like chronicle of the day-to-day machinations of the German generals as they struggle to prepare to meet the enemy in t...

On April 6, 1941, German troops along with Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian military units invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In less than two wee...

The aim of this book is to reconstruct the violent nature of the March on Rome and to emphasise its significance in demarcating a real break in the...

At age thirteen, most boys are finding trouble in all its infinite forms. In 1939, thirteen-year-old Jon Lippenss worst troubles found him in a pre...

A collection of the best stories from the classic run of Don Winslow of the Navy, one of the most popular comic books running during and after Worl...

This lieutenant gets up there and says, American soldiers dont huddle and put their hands in their pockets on a cold day. They stand at attention. ...

Why did Axis countries go to war against America? Given Americas industrial base, what was the rationale that underpinned their decision? This new ...

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among ...

Award-winning author Edward S. Miller contends in this work that the United States forced Japan into international bankruptcy to deter its aggressi...

In Autumn 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic, World War IIs longest seagoing campaign, reached a new crescendo. Anti-submarine aircraft and ships usin...

This second volume of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for generals and admirals of the Third Reich with surnames between...

The London Blitz and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are iconic myths for Britain and America. Few in either nation realise, however, that thes...

This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates. It argues that the system can be understood as the mechanism of the intersect...

The expansionist Japanese empire annexed the inhabited archipelago of Palau in 1914. The airbase built on Peleliu Island became a target for attack...

Germany's aristocratic Schulenburg family were irreconcilably divided over Hitler--some followed him devoutly while others joined the Resistance. O...

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among ...

Colonel Thurman Shuller's war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Eur...

The recent 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, combined with the threat of significant cuts to the current RAF, have highlighted the importa...

'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia Lovell, Literary Review'[A] gripping and meticulously researched account of an epi...

BOOK 12 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Kei...

The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory, for fans of ...