Second World War

Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the por...

On the night of 8 August 1944, the First Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, directing their advance towards Falaise, with the intention of ...

In November 1942, as the Battle of Stalingrad continued to rage, the Red Army launched a devastating counter-attack from outside the city. The Sovi...

Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of conce...

When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to p...

Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove...

Last Post Over the River Kwai is the carefully researched account of the experiences of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion The East Surreys duri...

Joyce Ffoulkes Parry was an Australian nurse who came to Britain in 1937 to rediscover her Welsh roots. When war was declared, she signed up as a Q...

The 4th volume of our authoritative series, German Naval Artillery is fully dedicated to calibres from 20mm to 40mm. The first chapter deals with t...

This history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'. The vast majority of historical accounts have focused on the regular arm...

At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for major war criminals, a...

In July 1941 the United States, after a decade of worsening economic relations, announced a total embargo against Japan. The embargo had actuall...

Malta in the summer of 1942, a Malta wide open to air attack from the Germans and Italians and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-ai...

'Rigorously researched, The Lost Café Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that...

A photographic record of the last survivors who returned to Holland for the 70th Anniversary of the battle and their journey on to Den Bosch where ...

This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle...

Women took part in perilous resistance missions during World War II alongside a much larger number of male resistance agents. This book present...

What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the E...

In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262, the worlds first operational jet warplane. This new German figh...