Regional / International studies

Battle of Britain is a riveting chronicle of the epic struggle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.

World's End is the story of Donald Wheal s childhood in Chelsea's World's End at the height of the Second World War.

**Celebrating 100 years of Douglas Reeman.

THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILMAmidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love.

The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944.

Considers the inter-war and wartime relationship between Britain and the USSR and its impact on the attitudes of ordinary citizens.

A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.

This is the story about Franz Hess, a Jewish scientist working at an armaments Research and Development complex in the Ruhr, Germany during World War 11.

Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The HolocaustArrested by the Gestapo in 1942 for involvement in the resistance, the author spent three years in Birkenau.

Quakers bring a special approach to political action that draws on 360 years of activism.

Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side.

In Rejoice, Maria Athanasiou uses Byzantine iconography to illustrate the story and Scriptures.

At a crucial moment, Ed Whitcomb, a B-17 navigator, made a split-second decision and thereby set off a hair-raising, spine-tingling sequence of narrow escapes, captures, unexpected breaks and bitter betrayals that culminated in his final extrication from enemy territory.

Why: To provide selected examples of World War II and early Cold War events, operations, procedures, systems, and equipment related to the use of electronics and radio measures, countermeasures, and surveillance.

Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts - many unpublished until now - this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with Britain's Special Operations Executive and the United States' Office of Strategic Services.

With over sixty million casualties World War II was the bloodiest conflict in history.

Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany.

War is far more than a series of military victories and defeats.

For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats.

Apart from the quiet chatter of a few mechanics, who were checking that one aircraft was too badly damaged ever to fly again, there was a shocked silence over the aerodrome as everyone there tried to understand the impossible.

This is the story of a people, its origin, its history, its struggle for survival and its tragic end-the life-and-death story of Polish and other Eastern European Jewries.

Desde su ocupación en 1945, la ciudad de Berlín fue el epicentro de la Guerra Fría.

This is the latest in the well-respected Battleground series of books, and covers a number of aspects of the battle of Arnhem.

A look beneath the surface at the lives of the elite force of submariners who served in the Kriegsmarine's U-boat arm during the Second World War.

A prewar Sapper, Charlie Radford served in North Africa until he returned to the UK for parachute training.

UN TESTIMONIO ESTREMECEDOR DEL HOLOCAUSTO QUE NO DEJA DE CONMOVERNOS.

Con oficio y destreza de artesana María Elena Barral ha logrado reconstruir una historia que hasta hace poco habría sido siquiera imposible de imaginar.

In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force.

Lejos de los pronosticos apocaliticos del siglo pasado que planteaban la progresiva desaparicion de lo religioso en el marco de la creciente racionalizacion y secularizacion de la sociedad moderna, lo religioso ha emergido a traves de multiples manifestaciones demostrando su persistencia, a la vez que exteriorizando tanto perspectivas novedosas como reafirmando planteos tradicionalistas y fuertemente fundamentalistas.

SURVIVOR STORIES FROM DUNKIRK, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR FILM FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLANWhen Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, thousands of young men sailed across the English Channel to fight for their country.

John Howard’s name will forever be linked to the highly successful Pegasus Bridge assault by his glider-born company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly.

The book covers the technical history of the late production P-47 Thunderbolts, with the “bubbletop” canopy.

In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees.

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards violence.