Second World War

Also available in English On 12 June 1944, Britains wartime Prime Minister, Winston Spencer Leonard Churchill, crossed the English Channel to visit...

The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern FrontAt the moment of crisis in...

The formation of the Pathfinder Force in August 1942 produced a steady but certain change in the fortunes of Bomber Command. Its effectiveness agai...

The key to getting on with our closest Continental neighbours is to know the truth about what they endured during the German Occupation in the Seco...

The concept of a twin-engine fighter that could accompany bomber formations and effectively drive off defending fighters was the rationale behind t...

Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest...

Dot May Dunn grew up in Derbyshire, the daughter of a miner, during the wartime years. In 1951 she joined the NHS as an early recruit and went on t...

The Longest Day is one of the best-selling military history books of all time. Its author, war journalist Cornelius Ryan, created a new style of mi...

This first of two volumes on de Havillands Wooden Wonder covers the night-fighter and fighter-bomber variants of the deadly Mosquito. The developme...

This memoir is an intimate and sometimes irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II. Born a North Carolina farmboy, Jones...

Contrary to the common notion that news regarding the unfolding Holocaust was unavailable or unreliable, news from Europe was often communicated...