Modern warfare

After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp at Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo.

Fuelled by hate.

How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range?

In September 1938, Hitler had been in power for more than five years, and had abrogated most of the constraints placed on German militarism by the Treaty of Versailles.

Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history.

A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front.

After the Holocaust tells the story of life after liberation from the perspective of Jewish survivors working to rebuild their lives.

Determined to take on the Nazis, Texan Bill Ash joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939 and in so doing sacrificed his citizenship.

The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy.

For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another.

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An anthology of personal experience selected and edited by John Winton.

The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society.

SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to set Europe ablaze .

Originally published in 1938, this fascinating book was 'intended for the ordinary citizen, the sort of man or woman who is going to be killed if Britain is raided again from the air'.

This early work on wartime Europe is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.

Published in early 1946, George P.

This book contains the story of Rommel, the famous German Field Marshal of World War II, commonly known as Desert Fox.

This American war-time volume is a collection of recipes, tips, and tricks for maintaining a nutritional, balanced diet during the rationing of the Second World War.

Emil, a Jewish man in 1930s Germany, loves Deta, a Lutheran, but Nazi racial purity laws forbid their marriage.

A World War II tabletop miniatures naval wargame set in the Pacific.

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.

A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries.

This volume tells the story of the evacuations of children from wartorn Britain to America during World War II.

General Montgomery lead the 8th Army to victory at El Alamein in 1942, and as Chief of Land Forces in the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 he received Germany's surrender in 1945.

For the last fifty years, the German Occupation of France has been regarded as a period characterised by four things: cold, hunger, the absence of freedom and above all fear; a time when the indigenous population was cruelly and consistently oppressed by the army of occupation.

In 1943, small teams of elite British soldiers began parachuting into the mountains of Axis-occupied Albania.

Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it was also the venue for Albert Speer's plans to forge a new 'world metropolis' and the scene of the final climactic bid to defeat Nazism.

Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East.

The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated.

Winner, 2022 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards, Unit HistoryThis second volume follows on from the first in recounting the WWII history of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion in vivid detail.

In the 1940s, nearly a quarter of a million East Londoners decamped annually for the hopfields of Kent.

_______________________The true story behind the hit NETFLIX dramaFrom the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks.

In 1939 London was not merely the greatest city in the world, it was the most tempting and vulnerable target for aerial attack.

In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all time.

'We were quickly learning to live with war.

On D-Day, Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and prepared to parachute into German-held north France.

The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep the more so in the dark and in winter.

Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot but it is not widely known that this was only one of a long series of attempts on the life of Adolf Hitler.

This astute biography brilliantly captures, in one volume, the full range of Winston Churchill's astonishing career.

At the beginning of the Second World War the Ministry of Information, through the advice of Kenneth Clark, commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front.

World's End is the story of Donald Wheal s childhood in Chelsea's World's End at the height of the Second World War.

A LOVE LOST.

A unique and enthralling anthology compiled by WWII flying ace, Laddie Lucas, Voices in the Air tells the story of the air battles of the Second World War in the voices of those who took part.

Brought together for the first time in one edition, both of Christabel Bielenberg's bestselling memoirs give an incredibly moving, emotionally charged and compelling insight into life in Nazi Germany during The Third Reich and during the aftermath of World War Two.

Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most famous war correspondent of the Second World War; the award-winning and best-selling author of books that vividly combin adventure and hisotry; the star travel-writer of the New Yorker; and a pioneer advocate of wildlife conservation.