Modern warfare

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender.

How the Grand Alliance of World War II succeeded-and then collapsed-because of personal politicsIn the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

An ordinary German soldier's letters home from Poland and Russia during World War IIReluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr.

Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower.

Could you spare five minutes per day to get acquainted with some truly fascinating people and events?

'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY TELEGRAPH26th September 1939.

Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day'[The] stories are every bit as dramatic as those from the front lines and Barrett and Calvi have done an incredible job.

The Third Reich is a succinct, comprehensive examination of the major debates surrounding this crucial period in modern German history.

The Third Reich is a succinct, comprehensive examination of the major debates surrounding this crucial period in modern German history.

History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past.

History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past.

Professor Iriye analyses the origins of the 1941 conflict against the background of international relations in the preceding decade in order to answer the key question: Why did Japan decide to go to war against so formidable a combination of powers?

Professor Iriye analyses the origins of the 1941 conflict against the background of international relations in the preceding decade in order to answer the key question: Why did Japan decide to go to war against so formidable a combination of powers?

Victory at Stalingrad tells the gripping strategic and military story of that battle.

Victory at Stalingrad tells the gripping strategic and military story of that battle.

The twelve years of the Third Reich casts a dark shadow over history.

The twelve years of the Third Reich casts a dark shadow over history.

This is an updated edition of the first truly concise introduction to the history of World War II in the West.

PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War.

PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War.

This is an updated edition of the first truly concise introduction to the history of World War II in the West.

A monumental new history of British conflict, publishing for the eightieth anniversary of VE Day'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.

A Sunday Times bestselling landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace from the author of Appeasing Hitler An astonishing achievement.

'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!

Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century.

Everything you've been taught about the World War II "e;internment camps"e; in America is wrong:They were not created primarily because of racism or wartime hysteriaThey did not target only those of Japanese descentThey were not Nazi-style death campsIn her latest investigative tour-de-force, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin sets the historical record straight-and debunks radical ethnic alarmists who distort history to undermine common-sense, national security profiling.

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

'Powerful, absorbing and endlessly thought-provoking' SINCLAIR MCKAYA radical new history of history's most brutal struggle for survival between imperial powers.

A Companion to Europe Since 1945 provides a stimulating guide to numerous important developments which have influenced the political, economic, social, and cultural character of Europe during and since the Cold War.

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.

A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.

"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.