Second World War

While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives ...

America's Few delves into the history of US Marine Corps aviation in World War II, following the feats of the Corps top-scoring aces in the skies o...

Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communi...

In June 1942, the U.S. Army began recruiting immigrants, the children of immigrants, refugees, and others with language skills and knowledge of ene...

This new book reveals the part played by the eight Bustler Class Rescue Tugs built at the Henry Robb Shipyard during the Second World War and will ...

A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day. The USAAFs m...

On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses a...

A highly detailed illustrated history of one of the most famous tanks of World War II the German Panther. Often considered the most elegant tank ...

Since ancient times, music has demonstrated the incomparable ability to touch and resonate with the human spirit as a tool for communication, em...

It is now more than 40 years since Fighters over the Desert was published, and nearly as long since this was followed by Fighters over Tunisia. Bot...

Breaking the Silence: Lessons of Democracy from the World War II Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp in Hawaii is a collection of articles authored ...

This book looks at WWII from a largely British perspective, based upon approximately 350 photographs from the archives of Mirrorpix. It takes a loo...

This fascinating millitary history tells the intriguing tale of the bitter and attritional Winter War between the USSR and Finland in the midst of ...

Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His...

This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff ...

Lee Miller photographed innumerable women during her career, first as a fashion photographer and then as a journalist during the Second World War, ...

The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two, alongside D-Day and Staling...