Modern warfare

A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom'Impressive.

To discover how war can affect the status of women in industrial countries, Leila Rupp examines mobilization propaganda directed at women in Nazi Germany and the United States.

The Sunday Times bestselling, prize-winning history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace from the author of the acclaimed Appeasing Hitler'Brilliant' ANTONY BEEVOR'Superb' JAMES HOLLAND'A masterpiece' RICHARD J.

'Really outstanding' Jonathan DimblebyAt 8:15 a.

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.

"e;The Allied landings in 1944 had all the prospects for disaster.

"e;The Allied landings in 1944 had all the prospects for disaster.

'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.

A staggering 30,000 British prisoners of war liberated from German POW camps by the Soviets at the end of World War II were never returned home.

Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives.

'Propulsive.

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.

The Flying Tigers and the U.

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

How big is Germany's Air Force?

Joseph Balkoski concludes his landmark series on the U.

The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous campaign of World War II, climaxed in 1943, when Germany came closest to interrupting Allied supply lines and perhaps winning the war.

Scouts Out is the definitive account of German armored reconnaissance in World War II, essential for historians, armor buffs, collectors, modelers, and wargamers, and the first extensive treatment of the subject in English.

Originally published in the 1930's, this book is a mocking expose of European dictators, comparing them to American gangsters like Al Capone.

This startling book reveals the military and political plans of the Axis in the very words of its own generals and admirals.

Intrigued by hints of ';the bigger man' behind the war personality of Gen.

Visual history of the Allied battles for New Guinea during 1942-44.

General Douglas MacArthur was one of the most colorful, controversial, and image-conscious military figures of the twentieth century.

The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.

Armor expert Zaloga enters the battle over the best tanks of World War II with this heavy-caliber blast of a book armed with more than forty years of research.

A visual history of the German soldier on the Eastern Front of World War II.

A visual history of the US Eighth Air Force in World War II

An engaging narrative of the small-unit actions near Sedan during the 1940 campaign for France.

Detailed history of the Tiger company of Nazi Germany's notorious "e;Death's Head"e; panzer division of the Waffen-SS.

Hundreds of photos of Tiger tanks in action.

Personal accounts of those taken prisoner during World War II.

Minute-by-minute account of the offensive.

Follows a legendary unit of American fighting men from D-Day through the end of World War II.

Extraordinary story of a Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS.

Riveting accounts from the pilots who flew such planes as the F-15, B-52, C-130, and many more.

Visual history of the artillery used by both sides on the Eastern Front in World War II.