Modern warfare

Diana Rowden was a woman of the finest character.

Early in the morning of 18 May 1942, three Dutchmen were captured in the North Sea and taken to MI5.

Shadow Warriors is a fascinating look at the women of the UK and US secret service branches during the Second World War.

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Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique collections of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre.

Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique collections of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre.

Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique collections of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre.

Birmingham's War: Voices of the Second World War is a collection of 100 accounts by local young men and women who served in the armed forces during the Second World War.

The modern London borough of Southwark was an amalgamation of the old boroughs of Southwark, Bermondsey and Camberwell in 1965.

Beginning by drawing parallels between the author's experiences at the British Embassy in Kabul from 2010 to 2013 and her grandfather's experiences of the same just after Indian Independence from 1948 to 1950, this book takes a thematic approach to analyse the role of Britain in Afghanistan since the conclusion of the Second World War.

Pat Hughes is today perhaps the greatest unsung hero of the Battle of Britain.

This book tells the story of the famous James ML military motorcycle which had originally been developed as a utility machine for the working man and was then modified for the military during the Second World War.

The Second World War was the most widespread conflict in human history.

D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, began on the night of 5-6 June 1944.

Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of courage and endurance.

British history is rich in enthralling stories: pivotal moments that changed the future of the country; moments of drama, suspense, intrigue.

These are the memories of wartime kids, Swansea children from a variety of backgrounds whose lives were dramatically changed by the brutal strategic planning and waging of war.

'I was happy that Coventry was selected as a target, as it was an important military objective.

This is a fighter pilot's memoir of four tumultuous years, 1938-1942, when he was first trained, then fought and survived in not one but two of the biggest aerial campaigns of the war, the Battle of Britain and the equally epic, but lesser known, Siege of Malta.

In 1940 a small band of academics was hired by a secret department of the Foreign Office.

This is the story of how the Second World War affected leisure boating: of the people who managed to overcome huge difficulties to go sailing during the war itself and the difficulties of re-establishing the sport in post-war years; of the sailing and yacht clubs which survived bombings, requisitioning, shortages and a host of other problems, and still thrive today.

In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the Low Countries and France.

During the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone, defying the Luftwaffe's aerial assault - the prelude to a proposed seaborne invasion.

This fascinating in-depth dossier is based on classified wartime reports issued by the US Military Intelligence Services, and examines the main weapon types - pistols, rifles, grenades, machine guns and mortars as well as anti-tank guns and infantry howitzers.

In the summer of 1940, the fate of Britain hung in the balance.

The incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War.

Barbara Harper-Nelson was once the 19-year-old girlfriend, living in Liverpool, of 22-year-old French airman Francis Usai, who was in the RAF Bomber Command.

This superb collection of wartime colour photographs brings the Luftwaffe - its aircraft and personnel - to life in a dramatically vivid way.

Colour photography was a rare thing in the 1930s.

Once described as the worst tank that ever won a war it was built in the States by car factories, railway works and vast purpose-built factories.

Based on a confidential wartime British Government report, this in-depth dossier details the inner workings of Organisation Todt, which not only built the Reichsautobahns, but also Germany's Siegfried Line and the Atlantic Wall.

This book is full of untold short stories of men who created a legend, the legend of the British airborne forces during the Second World War.

This book examines the areas of Sussex that played an important part in the Second World War.

Georgi Kondakov was sixteen years old when he was brought to Alderney in August 1942 with about 1,000 other young Russians to build part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall defences.

During the Second World War millions of men left their homes and families to fight for their country.

The elliptical shape and mighty roar of the Supermarine Spitfire continues to inspire people all over the world.

Ryuji Nagatsuka did not know, when he made an application to become a pilot in October 1943, that by the following autumn Japan's situation in the war would be so critical that the role for which he was destined would be part of the most incomprehensible phenomenon of the hostilities - that of a suicide pilot, known to the world as a kamikaze.

The Avro Lancaster took the RAF's bombing campaign right to the heart of Nazi Germany, night after night, despite sometimes suffering appalling losses.

On 4 July 1942, American airmen flew in US-built bombers against a German target for the first time.

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On 21 August 1944 German Army Group B was destroyed in Normandy and Allied troops began pressing east from the beachhead they had occupied since the D-Day landings.

As one of Britain's largest cities, Liverpool was heavily targeted during the two world wars.

The Second World War is so far the only truly global war that has ever taken place.

Volume 4 of We Were Eagles reaches the climax of the daylight bomber war which saw the Eighth Air Force B-17s and B-24s push back the boundaries and huge fleets of bombers penetrate further into the diminishing Reich.

Volume 3 of We Were Eagles covers the turning of the tide, when the air war was redirected to bombing communications targets in northern France in support of the 6 June D-Day invasion and the eventual breakout by Allied forces from the beachheads.

The Americans' second year of the war saw the Eighth Air Force finally bombing Berlin, or 'Big-B' as it was known.

Essex is populated with defensive structures that have gone some way to combating the threat of invasion.

Colwyn Bay lies in a wonderful spot on the sunny coast of North Wales.

'Kids supposed to evacuate this afternoon.

D-Day and operation OVERLORD are often regarded as one of the most important operation of all time.