Second World War

'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child'Now that's a Great Escape! How 34 members of the SAS evaded 5,000 Na...

In preparation for the liberation of the northern part of the Netherlands, Operation Amherst was launched on the night of 7 to 8 April 1945. This l...

The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment was a Canadian armoured regiment attached to the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade which landed on the beaches of Norm...

Operation Detachment, the US invasion of Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest...

**AWARDED THE GERMAN NON-FICTION PRIZE 2022**Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book strikes a balance between the forensic analysis of individual beha...

An authoritative account of the rise and fall of American sea power between 1897 and 1947 and the definitive biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. K...

Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchu...

I Am Andre is an amazing real-life story of espionage, of courage and resistance, and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden ...

What does Australia's military history reveal about us?In Beyond The Broken Years fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage's classic on Wo...

'This disturbing book is timely, relevant and important' Sir Ian KershawFrom the bestselling author of THE HOLOCAUST, a groundbreaking narrative hi...

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe...

This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghet...

Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History argues that fascist memory had a key role in the historical formation and later return of fascism. ...

The book presents various investigation into 20th-century European dictatorships, with its focus on Franco`s dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War...

WHEELS OF COURAGE reveals the never-before-told story of the world's first wheelchair athletes: U.S. soldiers, sailors, and Marines who were paraly...