Second World War

Who torched the crack French liner Normandie in New York Harbour? What happened to the priceless art treasures the Nazis looted from across occupie...

The RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight comprises three main aircraft - the Spitfire, the Lancaster and the Hurricane. The Lancaster played no ...

Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division has become one of the most famous small units in U.S. history,...

The Wiking division was the only armoured SS division to fight exclusively on the Eastern Front. It is true that it was partly composed of Flemish,...

On 6 June 1944 Commando Kieffer 177 soldiers disembarked, but they were not the only French soldiers involved in Operation Overlord. French sailors...

The Propagandakompanien, the German propaganda companies, were the primary method of communication of the Third Reich. The soldiers of the Wehrmac...

In 1943 William and Rosalie Schiff, newly married in the Krakow Ghetto, were forcibly separated and sent on individual journeys through a 'surreal ...

This wartime biography follows the life of a Second World War B-17 bombardier from the beginning of the war to its conclusion. Based on the 150 let...

Detailing the Lancasters history from 194245, this study brings everything together to tell a concise history of the worlds most famous aircraft of...

The purpose of this book is to collect, in an easily readable form, the basic technical data that concern the British army as engaged in the North-...

Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable h...

Though Anglo-American air power may be unrivalled in todays world, this was certainly not the case during Europes last great war. Decades ago, when...

Germany''s U-boat war against Russia was as fierce and unrelenting as the land war that raged along the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. From W...

For the Austrian Max Reisch, pioneer international motorist and writer of the 1930s, the Second World War offers yet more opportunities for adventu...

John Hoppy Hopgood, pilot and 2nd in command in the May 1943 Dambusters raid, died a hero at just 21 years old. Wounded by flak and with his Lancas...

In the whole course of the war, conceded Britains chief press censor, there was no story which gave me so much trouble as that of the attempted Ger...

This book explores the origins, development, combat use and lasting influence of Nazi Germanys automatic rifles, focusing on the Gew 41(W), Gew 43/...

* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of Br...

Created in 1942, and immediately placed under the command of General Doolittle, the 12th Air Force was responsible for conducting Operation Torch o...

Alongside their British and Canadian allies, the American troops landed on the Normandy beaches on the 6th of June 1944. Today, their presence in N...

The 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen, also known as SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 9, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 9 Hohenstaufen or 9. SS-Panzer-Di...

When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organise a new American army, he vow...

This is the third volume of the vast trilogy devoted to the Allied troops under the Anglo-Canadian command of the 21st Army Group. The aim of thi...