Second World War

From May 1940, the Children''s Overseas Reception Board began to move children to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand for their own saf...

During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power. This ...

'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' ANTHONY HOROWITZSIX GENTLEMEN, ONE GOAL - THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S WAR MACHINE.In the spring o...

The campaign intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks had proven one front too many for the German Army. And now the offensive at Stalingrad, the ...

A highly illustrated account of the many and complex operations in the final months of World War II in Europe, detailing the behind-the-scenes poli...

Part of the bestselling hardback pocket-book series, The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual collates authentic period sources, including pilot's notes ...

More so than any war in history, World War II was a womans war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire...

I don't blame my executioners. I will pray God bless them. So said General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japan's most accomplished military commander, as he...

The air campaign that incinerated Japans cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war.As the United States pushed ...

In terms of the Second World War and Britain's wartime strategy three elements deserve close scrutiny: the paramount importance of defending the Br...

In October 1962, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War ensued, bringing the wor...

Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape....

The Sturmgeschütz, or StuG, as it is more popularly known, while conceived as self-propelled, infantry support artillery, in time, formed the backb...

A comprehensive and dramatic re-telling of the Guadalcanal and Solomons naval campaign the daring Allied offensive to protect Australia and the So...

Today USS Pampanito is a tourist destination. During WWII the submarine earned six battle stars, sank six Japanese ships, damaged four others, and ...

A Canadian medical officer and prisoner of war returns from the Second World War a hero and a very different man.In August 1941, John Reid, a youn...

'An energetic, ambitious, provocative work by a young historian of notable gifts, which deserves a wide readership' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'...

World War II irrevocably shaped cultureand much of cinemain the 20th century, thanks to its devastating, global impact that changed the way we thin...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the United Kingdom was described as one vast aircraft carrier anchored off the coast of Europe. Duri...

The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the ...

Paul Levy was a year old when his Uncle Phil was killed in World War II, and his family, like many, faced their grief with silence. Upon retirement...

In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the worlds population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thail...