Second World War

A book examining the treatment of the Jews living in the Channel Islands during German Occupation.

The North American P-51 Mustang remains one of the most famous and recognizable aircraft in the world to this day. Nimble and fastqualities that le...

The M24 Chaffee was the finest light tank developed by the US during WWII. This tank was developed by Cadillac, which, along with farm equipment ma...

Over the past 1,000 years Hurley, in the County of Berkshire, has experienced its fair share of historic events, from royal visitations to the Glor...

Early in the war, when faced with an acute shortage of accommodation for evacuees, a government official questioned whether disabled children were ...

In 1940, Japan was into its third year of war with China, and relations with the United States were deteriorating, but it was a heady time for the ...

At the beginning of World War II, Catholic priests all across Poland were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. This memoir by Fr. Henryk ...

At the height of World War II, five hundred Army flight nurses served with the Army Air Forces as members of thirty-one medical air evacuation squa...

A series of daring missions from World War II, revealed through letters and documents from the main protagonists. Winning World War II was about m...

In 1945 a joint committee of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives was appointed to investigate and hear testimony from a variety of mili...

The moving biography of Lt Col William Norman Reed, a World War II fighter ace who fought with the Flying Tigers and died in defence of the two nat...

On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account of Soviet Russia's clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our understanding of ...

Nazi Germanys assault on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Operation Barbarossa, was the largest invasion in history. Almost 3.5 million men ...

Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin,...

The life and achievements of General Omar Nelson Bradley are legendary. During World War II, the five-star general was a key figure in the D-Day...

In 1941, the U.S. Army activated the 758th Tank Battalion, the first all-black tank battalion. This took years of protests and a lot of political c...

From May 1940 the Childrens Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. Th...