True war & Combat Stories

Darling the hour has almost arrived. We leave tonight ... I am feeling it very much but I must not weaken. I must be brave. I think that will be th...

At the beginning of the Second World War Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway, but left neutral Sweden alone. Less than a year late...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensel...

'Simultaneously frightening and hilarious' - The TimesThe Men Who Stare at Goats reveals the extraordinary and completely nutty national secrets ...

This book documents the financial transaction of U.S. gold in Taiwan. This gold played a pivotal role in enabling a democratic and free China to th...

The story of the photographic intelligence work undertaken from a country house at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, is one of the great lost stories of ...

Charlotte A. Lerg is assistant professor of American history at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and managing director of the Lasky Center fo...

6 June 1944 is one of the most memorable dates of the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the end of the conflict as Allied forces invaded...

Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Pauluss 6th Army and...

In the past 30 years, the devastating effects of international terror have forced their way into the forefront of world affairs. To counter this ne...

They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, he...

An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a not...

We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.' If there was eve...

The Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighte...

1926. Wuhan is in lockdown.Fourteen years ago, its heroes toppled Chinas last emperor, but at great cost. Patriots became politicians. Reformers be...

Two sisters. Two special agents. One War. Sisters and Spies is the incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline ...

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British...