Second World War

A triumph of family story-telling Hugo Hamilton, author of The Pages. A tale of three journeys, the final one a successful pursuit of shadows Myle...

Singapore fell to Japanese forces on 15 February 1942. Within a matter of days, the occupying army took prisoner more than 100,000 British, Austral...

By early 1941, Great Britain stood alone against the aerial might of Nazi Germany and was in need of pilots. The Lend-Lease Act allowed for the tra...

In the late months of 1944, seventy-one men climbed aboard a runt of a ship only one-hundred-fifty-feet long and twenty-three feet wide, and headed...

This book is a rare look at Soviet combat divers from the 1930s up to the end of World War II. The initial formation of the military diving service...

This book showcases a comprehensive catalog of restored WWII color Kodachrome slides. Many were taken during the heat of battle by individuals tryi...

In June 1944, Allied forces fighting desperately to establish a foothold in Normandy and then breakout of the confining bocage found themselves opp...

Repair, logistics, recovery, tactics and movement of a panzer division compiled from post- war debriefs, contemporary intelligence reports and inte...

Osprey's trilogy on Operation Market-Garden continues with a fascinating account of the British airborne assault on the bridge across the Rhine at ...

This remarkable work pulls the lid off one of the legendary air forces in history at the very peak of its powerface=Calibri>unveiling the and ma...