Modern warfare

Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the twentieth century.

By the time he was six, John Freely had crossed the Atlantic four times.

During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in occupied Europe.

During the 1940s Greece was torn apart twice, first by World War II and second by Civil War.

Constantinople in those days represented the bridge between East and West.

April 6, 1944.

April 6, 1944.

Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the twentieth century.

During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in occupied Europe.

In a decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created.

In this book, acclaimed history David Brewer investigates explores 1940s Greece -- one of the most tumultuous decades in Greece's modern history.

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953.

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to one of the most brutal campaigns of World War II: of the estimated 70 million people who died in World War II, over 30 million died on the Eastern Front.

"e;Berlin is a city forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so it lives more powerfully in the imagination.

Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to Nazi ideology.

What characterised women's international co-operation in the interwar period?

The Blitz- the period of Nazi bombing campaigns on civilian Britain during World War II- was a formative period for British national identity.

The Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II.

During World War II, Britain enjoyed spectacular success in the secret war between hostile intelligence services, enabling a substantial and successful expansion of British counter-espionage which continued to grow in the Cold War era.

In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration.

The story of Raoul Wallenberg - the Swedish businessman who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest's Jews from the Holocaust and subsequently disappeared into the Soviet prison system - is one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II.

The Royal Navy's operations in World War II started on 3 September 1939 and continued until the surrender of Japan in August 1945 - there was no 'phoney war' at sea.

The invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in March 1939 helped to precipitate Europe's descent into World War II sis months later.

In the years following World War II, the allies occupied a shattered Germany.

Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germany has been widely condemned.

World War II marked a pivotal point in the history of Cyprus, yet surprisingly, this period of the island's history has been little studied to date.

When Eagles Dared is a salute to the men and women who participated in World War II and the filmmakers who have immortalised their stories on screen.

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work.

On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany.

In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories.

In January 1942, the Declaration by United Nations forged a military alliance based on human rights principles that included over 24 countries, marking the beginning of the UN.

This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors.

The Rhineland, scene of European conflict for generations, remained an intensely contentious area following the end of the hostilities of World War I.

Roland Hill's autobiography, "e;A Time Out of Joint"e;, is a remarkable and moving personal story and much more: it enables readers to re-live European history during the darkest period of Nazi Germany and World War II, when traditional European culture and civilisation generally seemed to be extinguished, but also to experience the return of peace and a time of hope.

This is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social, and economic contexts, from the pre-war cinema as it fell under the control of the Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, through to the end of the Second World War.

"London was ours from the hour the blacked-out night hid its beauty until the morning siren signalled the coming day.

_Reaching for the Stars_ shows why Bomber Command, in one of the largest and bloodiest campaigns of the war, with 55,000 aircrew lost and more officer fatalities than in World War I, has received so much attention and yet remains a 'lost and black sheep' among British wartime achievements.

The Austrian Centre was established in London in 1939 by Austrians seeking refuge from Nazi Germany, of whom 30,000 had reached Britain by the outbreak of World War II.

Peter Fraenkel here gives a vivid account of a childhood in a middle-class, non-observant Jewish family in Nazi Germany, forced to emigrate to Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) in 1939.

A powerful and unique study of the realities and long-term impact of occupation, "e;Mussolini's Greek Island"e; reveals the Italian dictator's imperial vision, the mechanisms of Italian occupation and its tragic consequences.

The Holocaust - the murder of approximately six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in World War Two - is the gravest crime in recorded history, committed on a human and geographical scale which is almost unimaginable.

In the early hours of 22 June 1941 units of the Wehrmacht began to pour into the Soviet Union.

Patriotism and religious belief were defining characteristics of both public and private life during the 20th century.

On the outome of the Battle of the Atlantic from 1939 to 1945 depended Britain's survival in the midst of a global war.

This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak.

Using the framework of genocide, this volume analyzes the patterns of persecution of the Roma in Nazi-dominated Europe.

While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law.

Why France, the major European continental victor in 1918, suffered total defeat in six weeks at the hands of the vanquished power of 1918 only two decades later remains moot.

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded.

What did Hitler really want to achieve: world domination.