Second World War

The Forgotten Army consists of the letters, photos and sketches of a soldier fighting the Japanese in Burma that were sent home to the author's par...

When Germany occupied the originally demilitarised Channel Islands in 1940, Hitler ordered the area to be staunchly fortified with colossal permane...

Odette Brailly entered the nation's consciousness in the 1950s when her remarkable - and romantic - exploits as an SOE agent first came to light. S...

The gripping stories of RAF escapes and evasions as detailed in Escape and Liberation, 1940-45 illustrate some of the difficulties and problems fac...

A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germa...

Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT, is the interception and evaluation of coded enemy messages. From Enigma to Ultra, Purple to Lorenz, Room 40 to Ble...

Summer 1940. In the desperate fight against Nazi Germany, nothing is considered too outlandish, so the British secret services turn to figures from...

Long-awaited, the Normandy landings were the largest amphibious operation in history. Success was achieved by the advent of specialised landing cra...

As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastingss achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subj...

The Second World War was the most widespread conflict in human history. Involving over 100 million people from more than thirty nations, it complet...

Every General's aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across the southern portion of the ...

The greatest airborne operation in history commenced on 17 September 1944. Nine days later nearly four out five of the British 1st Airborne Divisio...

Tank War, the new supplement for Bolt Action, gives players the option to expand their games to a whole new level armoured warfare. Recreate such ...

In autumn 1943 the Italian-held Dodecanese was the setting for the last decisive German invasion of the Second World War and the last irreversible...

Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a naïve 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As ...

Britain's Secret War tells the astonishing story of how Britain's spies, boffins and special operations teams helped to win the Second World War. T...

A unique contemporary account of the epic air battle of Malta as related by fighter pilots of No. 185 Squadron, among them Flight Lieutenant H.W. C...

The Battle of Berlin was a conflict of unprecedented scale. The Soviets massed 1,600,000 troops for Operation Berlin, and but Marshal Zhukov's his ...

Dan Cohn-Sherbok has provided us with a magisterial overview of antisemitism . . . Whatever your religion, or your politics, Cohn-Sherboks Antisemi...

D-Day, 6 June 1944; a day that has gone down in history as one of the most crucial steps towards Allied victory of the Second World War. But what i...

The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlik...

The mettle of the famous First Household Cavalry Regiment was tested to the maximum in action in the mountains of Italy in 194344. This book explor...