Second World War

Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.Understand the longest battle of World War Two. This is an accessible, insightful and authoritative acco...

'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis...

A fascinating insight into how the Allies learned about the capabilities and limitations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force and Japanese Army...

Munich is one of Europe s most enchanting cities. Exploring its narrow cobbled streets or wide sunlight boulevards with views of the Bavarian Alps ...

With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. C...

Fought amid the most challenging terrain of any theatre during the Second World War, the campaign in the Far East saw heroic actions against the un...

When the Second World War was declared in September 1939, Northamptonshire was better prepared for the years that followed than it had been twenty-...

On 21 May 1940 during the ill-fated Dunkirk Campaign the British launched an operation spearheaded by two tank regiments to help secure the city of...

There is no other city in France that has the same associations in time of conflict that the British have with Arras. Since the campaigns of John C...

During the Second World War, the German Fallschirmjger (paratroopers) carried out many successful and daring operations, such as the capture of the...

Life in wartime London evokes images of the Blitz, of air-raid shelters and rationing, of billeted soldiers and evacuated children. These are famil...

Here, Martin Bowman brings us the first book on Operation Varsity to include both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, Brit...

When the Second World War commenced on 1 September 1939, the people of Cornwall rallied together in a way that they hadn t done since the Great War...

The holocaust will remain a stain on the history of mankind in perpetuity, long after the recollection of many of the perpetrators has faded. Some ...

On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark. Within hours and without a real fight the government capitulated; cooperating with the Nazis in ord...

As a child, Dave Gutierrez hung on every word his father recalled about his cousin Ramon, El Sancudo (the mosquito), and his service in World War I...

The Field Marshal was a born commander and, besides being a gifted linguist, was mobilised as a Subaltern for the Boer War to act as a secret agent...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...

This is not intended as a treatise on the futility of war, because that has been done before by much cleverer people. Neither is it a stirring stor...

Bursting with exciting full-colour illustrations, colour artwork and contemporary photographs, this is a handy complete guide to this iconic World ...

In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the Low Countries and France. This was a new type of warfare with air and ground forces wor...