Modern warfare

The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - BerlinThroughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world.

Andy Singleton has been modelling and painting most of his life and has been a professional commission figure painter for some years now.

From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War, this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis during the Second World War.

Understand the rise of a dangerous ideology.

Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his country to annihilation.

Descubra la historia de los hombres que marcaron el desarrollo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

The first operational military jet in the world, towards the end of the Second World War the ME 262 was to be the German miracle weapon.

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

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In the Second World War, Poznań was a key river crossing and railway junction on the Polish-German border.

This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field stations just behind the front lines, in inhospitable hospitals and convalescent homes.

In December 1922, the distinguished foreign correspondent Leonard Spray warned Britain to ‘keep your eye on Hitler’.

The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies' official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool's sensational bestselling books on the Axis' war crimes decided the public's opinion.

At the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, Albert Speer, Hitler’s one-time number two, persuaded the judges that he ‘knew nothing’ of the Holocaust and related atrocities.

'He who saves one life, it is as if he saved an entire world'The Holocaust will be forever numbered amongst the darkest of days in human civilisation.

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

Following is a brief look into the episodes of the past, that have had an influence on the nations of the world, and eventually led to the outbreak of W.

En diciembre de 1937 tuvo lugar una de las masacres más brutales que se recuerdan en tiempos de guerra.

This is the story of PFC Raymond Oblinger, an American replacement soldier in the U.

National Service, Britain's name for conscription, existed between 1945 and 1963.

De Gaulle and Churchill examines the tense and complicated relationship between General de Gaulle as leader of the Free French on the one hand and Winston Churchill and the British Government on the other.

Defence of Europe by Sikh Soldiers in the World Wars is a fascinating history of the much-forgotten Sikh contribution to the two World Wars.

In June 1944, Operation OVERLORD, the greatest ever amphibious invasion, initially overwhelmed German Normandy defenses.

This book looks at the invaluable work carried out by members of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the course of the Second World War.

When young John Lebda waded ashore on that beach in North Africa during World War II, he had no idea he was walking into the biggest mess the world has ever seen.

John Sherwood was commissioned into the RAF as a pilot officer on leaving school in 1936.

With the Japanese seemingly unbeatable after their conquest of Malaya, Singapore, Thailand and much of Burma, Orde Wingates plans to conduct long range deep penetration operations behind Japanese lines in Burma were audacious to say the least.

The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat'Adrenaline-fuelled.

United States Marine Corps veteran David Hall presents a new and exciting way to experience the Second World War in Blood and Guts: Rules, Tactics, and Scenarios for Wargaming World War Two.

'I went to the public baths and after I undressed I could hear someone whistling.

'A brilliant tour-de-force' - Times Literary SupplementBomber Command is acclaimed historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War.

Meisterstücke historischer EssayistikNüchtern und doch mitreißend setzt Sebastian Haffner sich mit markanten Personen und Ereignissen aus Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte auseinander, greift politische Probleme, Phänomene und Theorien auf.

"e;Compulsively readable laugh out loud history.

The sameness in most stories about Adolf Hitler and WW II won't be found in this work.

Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War.

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For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe.

"e;The United States Merchant Marine provided the greatest sealift in history between the production army at home and the fighting forces scattered around the globe in World War II.

Sex under the Swastika is a journey through the dark secretive corridors of the Third Reich’s powerbase and it’s near-pathological sexual obsession with young women, sex, Satanism and the occult.

An account of the German experience on the front lines during the early days of Operation Barbarossa.

The Complete Idiots Guide to World War II, Second Edition, will feature updated and expanded coverage of the fateful D-Day invasion, a critical timeline of major WW II events, and a WW II timeline highlighting the crucial and most important events of the war.

Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team.

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Noted military historian Ted Barris once asked his father, Alex, What did you do in the war?

Launched during the last days of the Third Reich in an attempt to restart the Battle of the Atlantic, the majority of these revolutionary Electro-U-boats never saw action.

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In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army near the small town of Halbe, south-east of Berlin.

An Army Captain, his wife, four kids aged three to nine, and a dog were having a leisurely trip across the country in their 1941 Pontiac, bound for his new assignment in Stockton, California.

This story is taken from notes Austin Buck Buchanan wrote in notebooks he carried in his pocket all during World War II.