Second World War

Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other,by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evo...

Major Leif Lundsten flew hundreds of Spitfires during the Second World War. As a fighter pilot with 331 Squadron and test pilot with Vickers-Armstr...

In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat thr...

This book is unusual inasmuch as the author is not worried about being controversial. He wrote this work in a frank manner using his personal exper...

The Battle of Britain was a fight for survival against a seemingly unstoppable foe. With the German army poised to invade, only the fighters of the...

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrog...

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the Panzer Graf (Armoured Count). An aristocra...

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well traine...

With exclusive access toprivate diariesand dozens of photographs, this is theincredible story of one of the most dangerous and thrilling secret mis...

A highly illustrated account of the race for the River Dnepr in 1943, one of the major campaigns on the Eastern Front in World War II, written by o...

General George S. Patton Jr. is one of the most successful yet misunderstood figures in American military history. Despite the many books and artic...

During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order redu...

A compelling and in-depth history of one of the worlds greatest armoured warfare commanders, Hermann Balck (18971982).During World War II, Balck co...

The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.Soon to be a major...

In this new paperback editon of German Automatic Weapons of World War II, the seven classic automatic weapons of the World War II German Wehrmacht ...

This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. At 11.02 am on an August morning in 1945 America dropped the worlds most...

This astonishing diary and collection of letters were written by Ryoichi Sasakawa, a wealthy business tycoon, statesman, nationalist leader, philan...

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Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable account of the build-up to and implementation of Op...