Modern warfare

On 16 May 1811 a combined British, Portuguese and Spanish force commanded by the British general Beresford met the French army under Soult at Albuera in southern Spain.

A Soviet infantryman offers a raw and candid look at life and death on the Eastern Front of WWII in this harrowing military memoir.

The author explains how the tradition of loyalty to the regiment has served the British Army so well over the past 350 years and, in his vivid description of some of the major campaigns in which it has fought, shows what it was like at various times to have been an officer or a soldier in the British Army.

The career of General Hugh Stockwell culminated in the ill-fated Suez Operation of 1956 but no stigma can attach to him for this.

General Colin Gubbins was in charge of SOE during World War Two.

Seldom out of the news for long, code-breaking has had a bad time in the media so far, readers and viewers often finding it as perplexing as it is intriguing.

This is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century.

Longlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST 'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE SUNDAY TIMES'So far as adventure stories go, this book is tops.

'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz'Fantastic' Dan Snow'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written.

One man's powerful account of his mother's extraordinary escape from Auschwitz - and what came after 'That nickname .

Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village.

'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason.

The Battle for Berlin was the final struggle of World War II in the European theatre, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and brought an end to the Nazi regime.

'ENORMOUS FUN' GUARDIAN'SO ENTERTAINING' THE TIMES'GOSSIPY, LIGHT AND FUN' TLSQueen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefax.

What would you do if you uncovered your family's darkest secret?

'Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive .

_________________________'The kind of novel we need now more than ever, [and] achieves what the best historical fiction can .

It began with an armchair.

'Exquisitely written.

Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg (starring Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle) and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific.

A ground-breaking approach to history where YOU choose the fate of WWII - perfect for readers of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The GCHQ Puzzle Book.

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitmentsAccounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism.

'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia Lovell, Literary Review'[A] gripping and meticulously researched account of an epic effort to transport delicate scrolls, paintings and carvings thousands of miles under the threat of bombing and invasion' Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement'Brilliant and thrilling.

Two sisters.

The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.

The evening the men came I fled through the garden gate The Netherlands, World War IIWhen the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it's clear that life is changing for the girl and her family.

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Serena Katt s grandfather, whom she knew as Opa, was a Sunday s Child , one of the lucky ones for whom everything always went right.

The brand new Railway Girls novel set in Manchester during WWII.

The second novel in the uplifting railway girls series.

The first novel in the wonderful new Railway Girls series, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Ellie Dean.

THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNITJune 1942.

'A devastating new account.

Discover a story that defies belief: National Velvet meets Downton Abbey with a splash of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's The Leopard.

Settle down for the holidays with The Christmas Collection, bringing together three heartwarming festive novels:The Night Before ChristmasMarried by ChristmasJust For ChristmasDescribed as 'the Queen of Christmas chick-lit', author Scarlett Bailey - otherwise known as Rowan Coleman - brings you all the Christmas cheer you could ever need.

** SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'Astonishing' ANTONY BEEVOR 'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' MAX HASTINGSA thrilling new history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler and the Nazis to dominate Europe.

The gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer.

A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the Second World War Remarkable and compelling Edmund de Waal Thoroughly engaging Kamila ShamsieIn a Mumbai museum in 2007, Livia Manera Sambuy encounters a photograph that will change her life forever.

*A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR*WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING?

Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS pioneering founders of modern special forces.

Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS pioneering founders of modern special forces.

THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREven in hell, hope can flower'I'll be forever changed by her story' - Oprah Winfrey'Extraordinary .

In the mid-twentieth century the relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past.

Discover a daughter's journey into her father's past in this Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.

Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.

WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats.

Afghanistan was an unwinnable war.

A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday TelegraphWhat would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain?