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What It Is Like To Go To War
In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a...
Blitz on Britain: Day by Day, the Headlines as They Were Made
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Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War
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The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace
'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person . can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than...
Spreading My Wings
The daughter of a millionaire racing driver, Woolf Barnato and granddaughter of Barney Barnato who co-founded the De Beers mining company, by 1936 Diana had had enough of her affluent,...
Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid
At nightfall on December 7 1942, twelve British canoeists arrived by submarine off the coast of France, tasked with infiltrating the dockyards of Bordeaux, and wreaking havoc with the German...
Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War
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Operation Mayhem
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A Promise to Remember: Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors
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A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights
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We Were Berliners: From Weimar to the Wall
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Nothing For Tears
Towards the end of the Second World War, Lali Horstmann and her husband Freddy, a retired diplomat and art collector, were living at Kerzendorf, an elegant eighteenth-century house with a...
Catalina Over Arctic Oceans
John French first took up flying in 1937 with the University of London Air Squadron and in 1938 joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. His early war years were...
Indomitable Will: Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor [...]
Some of the worst military disasters in U.S. history occurred between Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. During this period, the American...
General Mark Clark: Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome
Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men-along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley-who historian Martin Blumenson called...
Eject! Eject!
'Eject! Eject!' When the call is made to abandon an aircraft, it's only the beginning of the story... From the Sunday Times bestselling writer John Nichol, author of Spitfire, Lancaster...
Lemay
LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...
Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb
The extraordinary story of the loss of a U.S. plane with a live nuclear bomb on it during the Vietnam War in 1965, and the subsequent cover-up. On 5 December...
The Greatest Generation
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The Men Who Flew the Phantom F-4
The Phantom was developed for the US Navy as a long-range all-weather fighter and first flew in May 1958, before becoming operational in 1961. The US Air Force then realized...
Stopping Hitler
After the unprecedented death and devastation of the First World War, few people imagined that such a conflict could ever happen again. Though the belief that it was the 'war...
Among the Italian Partisans: The Allied Contribution to the Resistance
The remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in World War II Italy. The fighters included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders,...
Voices in Flight: RAF Night Operations
"The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the air. The Fighters...
Battle of the River Plate
At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from...
Outbreak: 1939
11-15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months- Britain is at war with...
Phoenix - a Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945: Volume 1 - the Phoenix is Reborn 1918-1934
Phoenix: A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945As a professional historical geographer with an all pervading interest in all things aeronautical, Richard Meredith brings a unique insight into the past...
Phoenix - a Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945: Volume 2 - the Genesis of Air Power 1935-1937
Based on forty years of detailed research, Phoenix - A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945 is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple...
Ordnungspolizei: Encyclopaedia of the German Police Battalions September 1939 - July 1942: v. 1
Author: Massimo Arico Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Babi Yar, Rumbula and Stanislaviv-these are places where apocalyptic slaughters were perpetrated during summer 1941. From June 27, 1941, this war...
The Battle of Normandy
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The First Helicopter Boys: The Early Days of Helicopter Operations - The Malayan Emergency, 1947-1960
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Doves of War: Four Women of Spain
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Ghosts of the Eto: American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theater, 1944 - 1945
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D-Day with the Screaming Eagles
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On the Warpath in the Pacific: Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers
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Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister
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The World within War: America's Combat Experience with World War II
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Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition
Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 QUEEN BEES looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor,...
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
Author: Mikail Eldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of...
Freyberg's War: The Man, the Legend and Reality
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Operations in North Africa and The Middle East 1939 - 1942
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Despatches in this volume include that on operations in the Middle East August 1939 to November 1940 by General Sir Archibald...
Peace and War: Growing Up in Fascist Italy
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When the Airlines Went to War
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A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II
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Victory
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Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World
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Wingfield at War
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Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale
Author: Victor Gregg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington,...
Second World War
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