Modern warfare

In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing some of the most savage atrocities in Russian history.

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

Operation Market Garden: a plan to capture the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem and outflank the German front.

'Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats.

'We believed in ourselves so much, no one ever panicked, even when the situation looked so desperate.

'A definitive record .

'THE VIETNAMESE ANNE FRANK'Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients.

'Superb.

In this remarkably powerful book, James Bradley takes as his starting point one of the most famous photographs of all time.

The subject of the new major film by Christopher NolanIt could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British Army was successfully evacuated, and 'Dunkirk spirit' became synonymous with the strength of the British people in adversity.

'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick mud walls.

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe.

EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT WAR IS WRONG.

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Part of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War series, The Eastern Front 1941-1944, is an authoritative and accessible introduction to the brutal confrontation between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union along a 1,200 mile front.

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.

Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.

Este libro analiza la importancia del periódico de la División Azul –la Hoja de Campaña (HC)– desde múltiples puntos de vista.

A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose.

Im Dezember 1939 verweigerte der Seeoffizier Hans Langsdorff einen letzten, aussichtslosen Kampf, sprengte sein Schiff vor Montevideo, rettete die Besatzung von 1.

'An extraordinary and utterly absorbing blend of the historical, the scientific and the human.

Des Powell left school with no qualifications and little in the way of formal education.

From Simpson's donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn't happen the way most people think they did.

'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child'Now that's a Great Escape!

There was a German bomber flying right towards us a Dornier, one of their biggest.

More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation.

'With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail, [Fisher's] book on D-Day is sure to impress a vast audience' Dan Snow'Stephen Fisher.

Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942.

On 10 May 1941, Rudolf Hess, then the Deputy F hrer, parachuted over Renfrewshire in Scotland on a mission to meet with the Duke of Hamilton, ostensibly to broker a peace deal with the British government.

At nightfall on December 7 1942, twelve British canoeists arrived by submarine off the coast of France, tasked with infiltrating the dockyards of Bordeaux, and wreaking havoc with the German shipping they found there.

A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe.

Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign.

The International Bestseller of the Spanish Civil War - Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeIn the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad.

One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.

Basándose en recursos sin explotar, entrevistas exclusivas y nueva investigación de archivos, La última cruzada del Papa por Peter Eisner es un emocionante relato que trae a la luz el valiente esfuerzo del Papa Pío XI para condenar el nazismo y la política del Tercer Reich —una cruzada que podría haber cambiado el curso de la segunda guerra mundial.

A New Yorker "e;Best Books of 2022"e; selectionNeed to Know is the most thorough and detailedhistory availableon the origins of U.

Visual history of Rommel and his Afrika Korps in the desert of North Africa.

This book has it all .

Story of one of the best and most battered armored divisions in the German armed forces.

Combat history of a renowned German tank regiment in World War II.

Combat history of a renowned German tank regiment in World War II.

Nyokodō, el «lugar del amor a uno mismo», es una pequeñísima cabaña de madera de tan solo cuatro metros cuadrados, construida en el corazón del barrio de Nagasaki reducido a cenizas por la bomba atómica.

This ';lively and action-packed account' of the infamous Gran Sasso raid chronicles the Nazi paratrooper operation that freed Mussolini (WWII History).

One world war.

When a bomb takes away all memory of her former life, can Nellie hope for happiness again?