Specific wars and campaigns

In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it.

'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton's colourful and critically acclaimed book, The Sale of the Late King's Goods, explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I's art collection.

Now updated with a new chapter on the 7 October attacks and more.

Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun.

A special edition of The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary.

Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by Madge Lambert.

'Taylor has done us a great service in making the personal stories of what it was actually like to live through the most crucial year of the twentieth century vivid, compelling and salutary.

From 1942 Speer was the second most powerful man in the Reich and Hitler's right-hand man.

The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas.

Autumn 1944.

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances.

A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram by David M.

November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany s assault on the Jews.

From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age.

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.

Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq.

This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad.

Get the lowdown on America's Bloodiest Warthe Civil Warwith this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining event in US history.

Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis.

';Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authorityA riveting read' (Donald L.

This ';historical page-turner of the highest order' (The Wall Street Journal) tells the chilling, little-known story of an American-born Soviet spy in the atom bomb project during World War II, perfect for fans of The Americans and nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.

An astonishing untold story from the nineteenth centurya rivetingengrossingAmerican Epic (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee.

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes ';a masterwork of history' (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.

This extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II is ';liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans, and it's all true' (The New York Times).

SS-168the USS Nautiluswas the flagship of Submarine Division 12 operating out of Pearl Harbor throughout World War II.

THE LAST SURVIVOR is the incredible story of a man who survived three concentration camps and a major maritime disaster at the end of WW II.

By the time the war clouds of Europe and Asia spilled onto the shores of the United States, the allied military found itself outmanned, outgunned and out flown.

A Congressional Medal of Honor AccountExtraordinary Valor is the story of Special Forces Major John Duffy's Medal of Honor gallantry at Firebase Charlie, and the heroism of South Vietnamese paratrooper, Major L Vn M, who fought by his side.

Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists, and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.

The First Counterspyis the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web.

Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces.

From an historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese.

Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war.

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history.

Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany.

2017 is the 100th anniversary of America's declaration of war against Germany.

Never to Return is the harrowing tale of the torpedoing and sinking of a Coast Guard ship and the loss of 171 Coast Guardsmen off the coast of Iceland during WWII.

Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time.

A brutal siege.

Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II.

Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time.

The Great War ate men, machines, and money without mercy or remission.

Fought during 1916, the Battle of the Somme was conceived by the French and British as a great offensive to be waged against Germany even as France poured incredible numbers of men into the slaughterhouse that was the desperate defense of Verdun.

A soldier's eye view of Vietnam's fiercest close-quarters battle upon its 50th anniversaryKhe Sanh's Hill Fights of 1967as experienced by co-author Bobby Maras and told in this hour-by-hour, day-by-day accountwere carnage on the ground, much of it hand-to-hand fighting in the dark.

In The Hidden Places of WWII, the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made.

George S.