Second World War

This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during ...

The story of the last surviving 'Desert Rats' in their own words and their experience of war in North Africa. From 1940-3 Britain was engaged in a ...

In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel...

Located by the Baltic near the town of Barth in Western Pomerania, Germany, Stalag Luft I was one of a number of Stammlager Luftwaffe, these being ...

14 August 1940, which Hitler code-named Adlertag, or Eagle Day, was fated to become one of the most significant days in the Battle of Britain. It s...

Infamous Nazi war criminal Dr Aribert Heim carried out grotesque, sadistic medical experiments on Jewish prisoners at the Mauthausen concentration ...

The invasion has begun. In this gripping book, Jonathan Mayo gives a blow by blow account of the events of D-Day, revealing what happened to the pe...

A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which s...

A study of the Macchi Folgore and Veltro, the most successful Italian fighters in World War II. With specially commissioned profiles, the book exam...

Written by one of the worlds leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitlers Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers attack on Po...

A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine...

An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units again...

World War II is one of the first conflicts to be extensively recorded in detail by both combatants and journalists, and many iconic photos of the f...

Winner of The Page Turner Non-Fiction Book Award, The Page Turner Golden Author Award, and The Page Turner Best Book Award in True Stories What mak...

From the summer of 1940 until May 1941, nearly twenty German Abwehr agents were dropped by boat or parachute into England during what was known as ...

Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North...

General Stilwell's ad hoc force of Merrill's Marauders, American-trained Chinese divisions, Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate's Chindits conduc...

This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy''s failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that t...