Second World War

Barbara Harper-Nelson was once the nineteen-year-old girlfriend of twenty-two-year-old French airman Francis Usai, who served in the RAF Bomber Com...

I saw a mass of ME 109s and went up to attack. I looked behind and found three on each side diving to attack me. Bob Doe, Combat Report 16 August 1...

After the United States entry into the Second World War in 1941, their war department realised that, due to the increasing dominance of air power, ...

Very Special Agent Fifi was described as one of the most expert liars in the world. Employed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Churchills ...

Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of...

Marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, this commemorative book recalls the momentous events that culminated in a ferocious and uniq...

As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty...

In August 1941 Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and President Roosevelt (1882-1945) met secretly on HMS Prince of Wales, moored just off the coast of ...

The Second World War is without parallel in human history. The sheer carnage is staggering, with some estimating over 80 million people died as a r...

World War Two From Above tells the amazing story of the daring photo-reconnaissance flyers and backroom boffins whose role was key in helping the A...

During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes. In response to the severe air threat that surface ships faced, n...

The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of th...

The complete story of the Imperial Japanese Army's stunning victory over the British forces during World War II For the British Empire it was a mi...

Inspired by the exploits of the German Fallschirmjäger in the blitzkrieg campaigns, Winston Churchill called for the formation of a 5,000-strong Ai...

Nazi Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and five days later Krakow fell. Hans Frank's General Government then subjected the Polish and Jews...

This compelling new study of the Battle of the River Plate concentrates on Kapitan zur See Hans Langsdorff, the commander of the German pocket batt...

An inventive study of relations between the National Guard and the Regular Army during World War II, Guard Wars follows the Pennsylvania National G...

In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of ...