Modern warfare

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.

Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DIMITRI LEONIDAS.

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.

'An exceptionally vivid account by a masterly writer' Max Hastings'No book depicts all the myriad aspects better than Jonathan Dimbleby's majestic overview.

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.

The little boy did not cry or speak.

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 gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war from Sunday Times No.

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

'Touching and heartwarming .

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

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.

A remarkable series of over 200 eye-witness accounts taken from diaries, letters, speeches, interviews and memoirs of those who were there: pilots, sailors, generals, infantrymen, war correspondents and leaders.

'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.

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.

WARTIME BERLIN: The Niemann family - Karl, Minna and their four children - live in a quiet, suburban enclave.

Aurora is the story of a young school teacher from rural Alabama who ventured to New York where she fell in love with a romantic, young gentleman from old German aristocracy.

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.

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’.

In this extremely vivid account of the Pearl Harbor attack, Michael Slackman takes us right through the course of events.

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.

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.

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

Over 8 million women stayed at home during the Second World War and their story has never been told.

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.

A gripping high-concept thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Turnglass'This richly imagined thriller is set in an alternate past .

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