World War 2

'The best single-volume history of the war ever written' DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES 'A masterly account of that epic conflict' ROBERT HARRIS The anniversary edition of multi-million copy bestselling author...

The book titled Letters Home by the author L./Arnold Stuart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book which is part of a series, chronologically lists combat aircraft and air strategy, giving an overview of key events in World War II. It includes descriptions of fighters,...

This book, which is part of a series, gives technical information on fighters, bombers, assault aircraft and torpedo launchers employed during World War II. It also provides chronological and general...

This expanded 176-page volume in the Legends of Warfare series includes 350 images, making it one of the most comprehensive entries in the series to date. USS Yorktown (CV-10) is...

One of the few RAF aircrew to play a central part in two of the Second World War's most momentous events, the Battle of Britain and D-Day, Cyril 'Frank' Babbage...

The book titled To Win the Winter Sky: Air War Over the Ardennes, 1944-1945 by the author Danny S. Parker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled The Thousand Plan by the author Ralph Barker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A vivid portrait of a world at the end of war, told through 12 months from around the globe. 1945 is a fresh look at the last year of the...

An important commemorative collection to mark the eightieth anniversary of VE Day, to ensure the world never forgets. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the British empire covered...

No weapon platform sank more U-boats in the Second World War than the Allied aircraft. Whether it was an American 'plane operating from American escort carriers, US aircraft from Royal...

Over sixty years ago a battle took place that, if it had succeeded, could have shortened the Second World war by six months. The operation to take the bridges at...

An account of the ill-fated RAF raid, in May 1944, on the Panzer tank depot and military barracks at Mailly-le-Camp in preparation for the D-Day landings, which resulted in heavy...

In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a Cryptographer...

May, 1941. One of the senior choristers at St Paul's, Edwin Roberts, is found beaten to death in the crypt of the cathedral and Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant...

Arriving at Ridgewell Air Base in Cambrideshire in July 1943, at a time when the loss rate for bomber crews was at its highest during the war, John Comer miraculously...

Doenitz succeeded Hitler as the last leader of the Third Reich. He is still a potent symbol of division with Germany - regarded by admirers as one of the greatest...

Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the...

The book titled Duty: A Father, His Son and the Man Who Won the War by the author Bob Greene. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This book examines the life of the little-known but highly successful man whose productions dominated London theatre for over 30 years. Following 10 years of research, the author has uncovered...

The book titled The Air War, 1939-45 by the author R. J. Overy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Here, for the first time, is the story of the victorious, the vanquished and the forgotten air forces that fought in the Second World War in more than 300 period...

The immediacy of the visual image, plus film and television's ostensible ability to take viewers back into the past, confers a sense of veracity on powerful historical films. This collection...

Between the end of August 1943 and the end of March 1944, RAF Bomber Command carried out a sustained offensive against Berlin, 19 major attacks being made. It was the...

-- The eye-opening, behind-the-scenes story of pilot training in the pre-WWII era -- Gives readers a pulse-racing, pilot's-level look at how the Flying Cadets powered America's WWII air superiority, detailed...

Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of...

Today little evidence remains of the prisoners of war who once so desperately clung to life at the 8 Mile Camp at Sandakan in North Borneo. To Sandakan is Charlie...

The book titled The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book by the author Paul R. Bartrop. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Little has been published in English on the Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF), let alone its most successful fighter pilots no less than 150 of them achieved ace status during...

As part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area in this case Kent, Surrey, East Sussex, Essex and...

There remained twenty miles or so of water between Hitler and Great Britain. Unless Hitler's Air Force had control of the skies between France and England, any attempt to send...

The fascinating details of the week surrounding the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor--seven days that would change the world forever. December 7, 1941: One of those rare days in world...

In 1920, young Olga Chekhova, the beautiful niece of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, fled Moscow for Berlinataking only a smuggled diamond ring. Olga quickly won both celebrity as an actress...

On 20 December 2017 John 'Jack' Bell will celebrate his 100th birthday; a great achievement for any person but very special when that person was seriously wounded in the Second...

After escaping a P.O.W camp with six others, Australian Lance Corporal Ralph Churches went back for his mates, all ninety of them. He got them airlifted to safety from behind...

Ultra was the code word for the method by which the Allies intercepted the German radio transmissions and broke their coded contents during World War II. The author, himself a...

The book titled No Moon Tonight by the author Don Charlwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled At Dawn We Slept: Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by the author Gordon W. Prange. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Formed in 1940 as Special Boat Section and later amalgamated into 1st SAS Regiment as part of Colonel David Stirling's expansion, the famed SBS were a commando unit designed to...

By spring 1942, Hitler's forces on the Eastern Front were suffering heavy losses. To replace these casualties, the Army requested the transfer of 20,000 men from the Kriegsmarine and 200,000...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...

Features the real-life saga of the experiences of the Pushman family in the Second World War. Illustrated with family photographs, this book gives the reader a personal glimpse into both...

The book titled Hardest Victory: RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War by the author Denis Richards. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Harrowing and redeeming, this is the history of a unique 'adoption' system. For generations, local families, grateful for the sacrifice of their liberators from Nazi occupation, have cared for not...

The start of World War 2 changed women's lives and their place in Australian society forever. Thousands of women ventured where few had gone before - into the services and...