Specific wars and campaigns

*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize*

In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island.

On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday.

Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment.

At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess.

In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet.

The First World War, leading to the overthrow of the Qajar regime and replacement by Reza Shah, was pivotal in the history of modern Iran.

This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II.

Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust.

On 9 July 2011, South Sudan became an independent state after more than half a century of civil conflict wrought with human rights abuse.

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'.

The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey.

Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment.

On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday.

*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize*In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island.

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945.

After the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins, the victorious Winston Churchill swore to build a peace across Europe that would last a generation.

In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population.

A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II.

On a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans.

In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet.

Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution.

What did people really believe in the Middle Ages?

During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan.

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century.

A new look for Austerity.

The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan.

David Lloyd George left a profound political legacy, despite being described by the wife of his successor, Herbert Asquith, as a 'gambler without foresight'.

His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered.

The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement.

In this classic account, Bernard Wasserstein draws on the files of the Shanghai Police as well as the intelligence archives of the many countries involved, to provide the definitive story of Shanghai's secret war.

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics.

In 1939 a girl was born in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a beautiful land steeped in history and suffused with tradition but weighed down by poverty and the 'Ndrangheta - Calabria's Mafia.

The horrors and tragedies of the First World War produced some of the finest literature of the century: including Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Goodbye to All That; the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas; and the novels of Ford Madox Ford.

'When the Nazi power was broken, I asked myself what was the best advice I could give to my fellow citizens here in this island and across the channel in our ravaged continent.

Written by the former chief foreign policy advisor to the Turkish president and based on unprecedented access to official documents and communiques, this book gives the inside story of Turkish US relations from the first Gulf War, through debates on the Iraqi Kurdish question, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and into the present day.

At a time when technological advances are transforming cultures and supporting new automated military operations, action films engage the senses and, in doing so, allow viewers to embody combat roles.

An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence.

Dmitry Likhachev (1906-1999) was one of the most prominent Russian intellectuals of the twentieth century.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.

In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism.

'An unlikely hero has a master storyteller to tell his tale.

The Vietnam War ended nearly fifty years ago but the central paradox of the struggle endures: how did the worlds strongest nation fail to secure freedom for the Republic of Vietnam?

A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a vital intellectual project.

*Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize * Winner of the Bath Novel Award * Shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award *'What a writer.

Meet the unit that posed as Nazi stormtroopers in the most daring mission ever undertaken SAS Ghost Patrol is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war.

A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World WarIn the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion.

This remarkable book details the shared experiences of Hans von Mend and his comrade in arms, Adolf Hitler, throughout almost the whole of the First World War.

It was Tuesday, 17 October 1939.

This remarkable book details the shared experiences of Hans von Mend and his comrade in arms, Adolf Hitler, throughout almost the whole of the First World War.