Modern warfare

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two months after his eleventh birthday, on 9 July 1944, the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp closed behind Ladislaus L b.

The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps.

From May to September 1940, a period that saw some of the most dramatic events in British history - including the evacuation of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the opening stages of the Blitz - the Ministry of Information eavesdropped on the conversations of ordinary people in all parts of the United Kingdom and compiled secret daily reports on the state of popular morale.

The thrilling and moving classic memoir of a spitfire pilot in World War Two.

The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill and focus on the task of war.

Although 50 years have passed since the end of World War II, there has as yet been no definitive history of that conflict.

An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.

A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'.

1942 - British troops are stranded in the desert, struggling to hold back Rommel's Afrika Corps.

An extraordinary true story of survival against all odds - and a fascinating eyewitness account of one of the darkest periods in human history.

A book that everyone should read The TimesA harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.

Long after the Battle of Britain, the aircrews of RAF Bomber Command risked their lives night after night during the Second World War.

'The book that made me think, 'yes, this is the way to write history,' was Finest Hour by Phil Craig and Tim Clayton.

The #1 testimony book that every Christian needs to read.

Understand the Second World War will show you how one of the most important events in history developed, charting the main military campaigns and examining the path to Allied victory and its impact on the countries involved.

National BestsellerForeword by Peter MansbridgeBarris tells the jaw-dropping story of a night that changed the war.

A riveting tour de force by Canadas leading military historian about the heroic Black Watchs fight for survival at Verrires Ridge Centred around one of Canadas most storied regiments,Seven Days in Helltells the epic tale of the bloody battle for Verrires Ridge, a dramatic saga that unfolded just weeks after one of Canadas greatest military triumphs of the Second World War.

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

Published to rave reviews, this is the never-before-told story of two brilliant young Canadians who became unlikely soldiers.

The definitive account of the infamous 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli forces and the continuing controversy over what really happened.

They are America's best fighter pilots -- from the Navy, Air Force, and Marines.

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Die Panzerschlacht bei Kursk im Sommer 1943 war eine der größten Schlachten der Kriegsgeschichte, an der etwa drei Millionen Soldaten mit mehr als 10.

Christmas during war-time - a memoir of community spirit and the sense of coming together and supporting each other Dot May Dunn grew up in Derbyshire, the daughter of a miner, during the wartime years.

The heart-warming tale of a wartime childhood.

A powerful and moving tale of family, love and loyalty from the author of the million-copy bestseller THE FLOWERS OF THE FIELD and A FLOWER THAT'S FREE.

Shortly before 8 am on 16 March 1968, C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, entered the hamlet of My Lai.

Ir ne N mirovsky's own life was as dramatic as any fiction.

From 1939 until 1942, Hitler's U-boats - his 'grey wolves' - threatened to accomplish what his air force had hitherto been unable to achieve: to starve Britain into submission.

Peter Caddick-Adams - one of the leading military historians of his generation - reviews one of the great final engagements of WW2: The Battle of the Bulge.

Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold.

In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen.

The night of May 16th, 1943.

A gripping account of the moral and political challenges posed by the Iraq war from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.

A gripping account of the moral and political challenges posed by the Iraq war from the Costa Award winning author of The VolunteerWhen Tony Blair plunged Britain into war he thought that, shortly thereafter, Iraq would emerge as a peaceful democracy.

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'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.

Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours.

Este primer libro traducido al castellano del prestigioso historiador Ulrich Herbert ofrece, basándose en las investigaciones más recientes, una concisa panorámica del Tercer Reich.

The legend of Betty Pack is simple enough.

From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist.

Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts - many unpublished until now - this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with Britain's Special Operations Executive and the United States' Office of Strategic Services.