The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany's resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich.
As the world commemorates the hundredth anniversary of World War I, the literary canon of the war has consolidated around the memoirs written in the years after the Armistice by soldier-writers who served in the trenches.
"e;Full of mystery and intrigue surrounding the Abwehr and the Luftwaffe secret missions supporting the insertion and less frequent extraction of agents.
Over the course of many years Richard Pursehouse has painstakingly unraveled the story of a First World War prisoner of war camp which held captured German personnel in the very heart of the English countryside.
From the restoration of the western Roman empire by Charlemagne to the battles of Robert the Bruce for Scottish independence, The Mighty Warrior Kings brings to life the epic victories and struggles of nine kings, whose reigns changed the course of European history.
"e;An inherently fascinating, impressively well written, exceptionally informative, and meticulously detailed history"e; of Japanese overseas mercenaries (Midwest Book Review).
The "e;fascinating"e; story of a First World War prisoner of war camp which held captured German personnel in the very heart of the English countryside (Books Monthly).
This "e;superb account of the British Army under Wellington in India reads like one of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels, or, better still, a Flashman novel"e; (Books Monthly).
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ.
'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows.
As the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing our opportunity to understand the reality behind the conflict's myths, machines and iconography.
THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE BESTSELLING ESCAPES SERIES, FROM MILITARY HISTORIAN DAMIEN LEWISSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed by the world's most famous fighting force during WWII.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2024A WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER'Beautiful, sober and affecting - a testament to remembrance and friendship' - DALIA SOFER'A momentous historic retrieval and work of literary art' - PHILLIP LOPATENearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the full details of her past with anyone.
One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese, said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it the most forbidding fighting country imaginable.
National Bestseller One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "e;masterly"e; (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor The nation was on the brink.
