Second World War

Iwo Jima remains in the collective memory of Americans as the most horrific battle of the war in the Pacific, no doubt due to the fact that the num...

As the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe unleashed their full might against the island of Malta, the civilian population was in the eye of the st...

This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi ...

When Christine Cuss (née Pierce), was born in 1934, her doting father began a journal addressed to her. At first he recorded everyday details such ...

Few battles attract interest so much as the Battle of Kursk. Operation Zitadelle, the code name given by Hitler to the Wehrmacht's last offensive o...

Between May and October 1940, following Hitlers invasion of western Europe and the evacuation of the Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, it was feare...

In 1940 Ted Fogg and Ernest Webster joined The Desert Rats, one of the most famous divisions to fight in the Second World War. They were posted to ...

Dockers Stories from the Second World War is a collection of several true stories, drawn from Henry Bradfords time as a Registered Docker in the Po...

During the Second World War over 1.5 million of women found themselves thrust into a male working world, having to learn new skills within a matter...

After D-Day in 1944 many British troops believed the war would be over by Christmas. The German Army in Normandy had been destroyed, but by Christm...

For almost sixty years after their deaths, three men, whose brave actions shortened the Second World War by as much as two years, remained virtuall...

In the cold morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of German soldiers are in position from Port en Bessin eastwards past Colleville on the Normandy coa...

The greatest deception of the Second World War and possibly in the whole of military history took place in April 1943 when a body was found float...

On 20 September 1944, a force of US paratroopers launched a desperate, near suicidal river crossing in an effort to reach their airborne brethren t...

The battle of the Falaise Pocket, fought during World War II from 1221 August 1944, was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. Taking i...

During World War II, thousands of Native Americans took part in the crusade for the defence of freedom and democracy in all theatres of operation: ...

The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius t...

Monograph commemorating German photojournalist Werner Bischof (1916-1954), who reported on devastation in Germany, France and the Netherlands after...

Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DI...

The events of a few days in August 1945 brought WWII to an end. They also destroyed the city of Nagasaki and killed 80,000 of its inhabitants, half...

The attack on London between 1939 and 1945 is one of the most significant events in the city's modern history, the impact of which can still be see...

This is the Second World War career of the longest serving double agent in the Double Cross system, Harry Williamson. Harry operated from September...

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO TRULY SEPARATE FACT FROM MYTH AND LEGEND. The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy figh...