Modern warfare

Though only one among hundreds of prison camps in which British servicemen were held between 1939 and 1945, Colditz enjoys unparalleled name recognition both in Britain and in other parts of the English-speaking world.

The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II.

Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside.

Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F.

Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F.

The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II.

Before the war, Normandy's Plage d'Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations.

This is the Second World War career of the longest serving double agent in the Double Cross system, Harry Williamson.

Written by 43 Squadron's intelligence officer, Hector Bolitho, Finest of the Few is full of John's first-hand accounts of his combat missions against German Me 109s, Heinkel 111s and Dorniers.

Five months, one week and three days of hell.

This is almost all of what survives of a journal Colin Perry kept between March and November 1940, when he was eighteen years old, written in his home in Tooting and in the City of London where he worked.

The Battle of Britain memoir of Hurricane pilot Barry Sutton, DFC.

HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939.

The new breed of American fast aircraft carriers could make thirty-three knots, and each carried almost 100 strike aircraft.

"e;A very nice reference book that contains a well written informative text, many subject specific photographs, well detailed captions and more, all detailing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps by allied forces during World War II.

Was World War II necessary?

'The most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich' Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler'The most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis' A.

The Sherman tank served with most Allied armies during the Second World War and it is justly famous for the role it played in the Normandy landings and the subsequent drive into Germany.

In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan.

This book tells the stories of three child survivors of World War ll.

El ejército nazi fue una maquinaria bélica implacable que, aplicando el concepto de guerra relámpago, se lanzó a la conquista del mundo.

Hundert Jahre Glücklichsein: Der über hundertjährige Holocaust-Überlebende Eddie Jaku erzählt, wie er in dunkelsten Stunden zu Freude, Dankbarkeit und Hoffnung fand - ein Jahrhundertleben und eine aufrüttelnd-anrührende Geschichte voller Weisheit.

April 1945.

Many books and memoirs have been written on prisoner of war captivity in the Far East during the Second World War.

Enemy Sighted is the story of the world’s first integrated air defense system and how the coalition of Hurricanes and Spitfires, Fighter Command’s Operations Rooms and Sector Stations, Radar Stations, Observer Corps posts, anti-aircraft gun and searchlight batteries, and balloon barrages, stood resolutely in the way of Operation Seelöwe, Hitler’s plan for invading Britain in the Summer of 1940.

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Hitler's decision to renege on his alliance with Stalin and invade Russia in June 1941 was to have the most far reaching consequences for the world.

‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up.

Tucked away in the archives of the Museum for Transport and Technology in Berlin is an old photograph of a Hawker Hurricane on public display.

Sir John Slessor was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished wartime commanders and incisive military thinkers, and William Pyke's comprehensive new biography reveals how he earned this remarkable reputation.

The Sdkfz 251 halftrack was one of the most versatile armored vehicles produced by either side in the Second World War.

This book examines the full story of the German and Soviet aerial battles in the Leningrad sector during the siege.

In August 1942, Allied forces mounted an attack on the German-held port of Dieppe; titled Operation Jubilee, it represented a rehearsal for invasion.

'The literary VC goes to without doubt to Max Hastings for his Das Reich .

This superbly researched book gives a complete account of the war in the Mediterranean on, above and beneath the sea up until Italy's armistice in September 1943.

Reluctant Warriors, 1941-1945, an autobiographical memoir set in New York, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, and the European Theater of Operations, describes the lives of young people caught up in World War II, daily life during those years, and the profound effect the war had on that life.

The whereabouts and disposal of the Nazi's remaining stolen gold has led to numerous investigations and countless conspiracy theories.

Finland was the only nation with an elected and democratic government to fight on the German side in WWII.

For most of 1992-1995, Britain stood aside while an internationally recognised state was attacked by externally-sponsored rebels bent on a campaign of territorial aggression and ethnic cleansing.

(This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations.

Throughout the 1930s the Zippo Company in Pennsylvania prospered on the growing success of its stylish, charismatic little cigarette lighter.

The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armored force sent to North Africa.

The history of 332nd Fighter Group, the only segregated Fighter Group that served in combat during the Second World War.

'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.

'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940.

Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis.

The 80th Anniversary of the historic final Battle of El Alamein is the ideal time to study the events leading up to General Bernard Montgomery's famous victory over Field Marshal Rommel's Panzerarmee Africa in Autumn 1942.