Second World War

In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a ca...

In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a ca...

WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, tur...

The U.S. merchant marine played a critical, though often overlooked, role in World War II. This reference work provides a brief narrative of eac...

For four days in November 1943, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss th...

Garbo was the British codename of Joan Puyol Garcia, perhaps the most influential spy of the Second World War. By feeding false information to the ...

The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the d...

On a hot afternoon in August 1941, a 24-year-old Belgian woman walks into the British consulate in Bilbao, neutral Spain, and demands to see the co...

From his birth at Blenheim Palace to his tumultuous political life in Westminster, Celia Sandys is uniquely placed to examine the life of one of th...

Emerging from modern history as a remarkable and much-loved family, the Mitfords have remained largely unrepentant concerning theirs and particular...

Following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940, Britain was at her most vulnerable. France had capitulated and th...

Emerging from modern history as a remarkable and much-loved family, the Mitfords have remained largely unrepentant concerning theirs and particular...

À partir dune incroyable collection de photos découverte dans la base sous-marine des U-Boote de Brest à la fin de la guerre, et restée cachée jusq...