Modern warfare

With insightful analysis, factual contextual information, and illuminating historical documents, this book provides a detailed, but broad perspective on the most destructive event in history.

The wartime airfi eld at Rivenhall is typical of the many airbases that were hastily built in Britain following the entry of the US into the Second World War.

On 1 September 1939, when Germany attacked Poland, the Wehrmacht numbered 3,180,000 men.

Hundreds of novels have been written about young men coming of age in war.

Geschichte der britischen PremierministerVon Henry Addington bis Winston ChurchillGeorge C.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fearThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known.

Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen.

A highly illustrated study of the last great campaign in the Pacific Theatre in World War II: the US Navy and Royal Navy's air, surface, and submarine attacks on the Japanese Home Islands.

Secret Codes, ciphers, strategic misdirection, and more: Deception was one of the most powerful weapons utilized by the Allies in World War II.

In the spring of 1936, the Soviet effort to build an anti-Nazi alliance was failing.

An engrossing account of the military, cultural, and commercial impact of Japan and the USA on the island nation of Palau The expansionist Japanese empire annexed the inhabited archipelago of Palau in 1914.

For many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi occupation was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance movement.

Three New York Times–bestselling World War II histories, including the true story of the miraculous evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk.

The companion volume to the groundbreaking TV series, this book tells the story of the physical, emotional and psychological journey of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Normandy to the ruins of Berlin.

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.

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.

Memoirs of SOE agents have always been rare - so many were either killed in action or executed - and today they are almost unheard of.

The forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945.

The elliptical shape and mighty roar of the Supermarine Spitfire continues to inspire people all over the world.

The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War.

Drawing on recently declassified documents, and now available in paperback, this is the utterly compelling history of the successes and failures of the German Intelligence Services throughout World War II.

The perfect companion to Masters of the Air on Apple TV+, this is a superbly illustrated examination of the aircraft, pilots, crews and operations of the US Eighth Air Force.

The complete story of the pilots who 'made ace' while flying the original MiG fighters.

This interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.

At the time of publication, no single volume in English had ever appeared in the West dealing with this intriguing subject area.

'My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "e;our greatest orator"e;, "e;He's no speaker, is he?

Operation Frankton is a story of how a handful of determined and resourceful men, using flimsy canoes, achieved what thousands could not by conventional means.

The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first built-from-the-keel-up carrier, the Hosho.

The first detailed, illustrated description in English of wartime life in Germany, and the tentacles of the Nazi state as they affected every man, woman and child.

The period 1928-1942 saw some of the greatest political and social upheavals in modern British history.

Monday, June 5, had long been planned for launching D-day, the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-held Western Europe.

This early work by Richard Hillary was originally published in 1942 and we are now republishing it.

The World Turns to War weaves stories of combat veterans into an event-by-event history of the war.

At its peak in World War II, the United States Army contained over 700 engineer battalions, along with numerous independent brigades and regiments.

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past.

Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche.

In der Endphase des Zweiten Weltkrieges entstand die "Oder-Neiße-Linie", die heutige deutsch-polnische Grenze.

In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.

The US armed forces pioneered amphibious warfare in the Pacific and by the time of the D-day landings they had perfected the special equipment and tactics necessary for this extraordinarily difficult and risky form of warfare.

This revised edition of Mike Chappell's original Men-at-Arms 138 represents nearly 20 years' new research.

Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor.

Richard Overy zeichnet ein umfassendes, neues Bild des Zweiten Weltkriegs – als das letzte Aufbäumen des Imperialismus.

"e;I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could never forget it.

This book provides an intriguing and realistic account of the struggle for the possession of Malta during World War II.

In this book, aviation expert Chris Thomas - inspired to research Typhoons by his own father, who flew numerous raids in a Typhoon during World War 2 - extols the great importance of the Typhoon wings in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe.

Civilians into soldiers is an examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War.

Compared to Casablanca by the Washington Post, The Freedom Line is a page-turning story of a group of resistance workers who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots through France and into safety in Spain during World War II—perfect for fans of Apple TV's Masters of the Air.

A comprehensive and dramatic re-telling of the Guadalcanal and Solomons naval campaign the daring Allied offensive to protect Australia and the South Pacific from Japanese invasion.