Far-right political ideologies and movements

A pulsating account of the young RAF and American fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, Thunderbolts and Mustangs during 1940-45.

"e;The tragic final year of Hitler's once highly effective U-Boat campaign against Allied shipping is graphically and grippingly told here.

The author begins this fascinating book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars.

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types.

Although over 330,000 British and French soldiers were evacuated from the Dunkirk beaches between 26 May and 4 June, many thousands remained in France, most under French command.

"e;Provides a fresh and invaluable explanation of the military and political events of that extraordinary campaign.

"e;Extremely well researched .

First published to acclaim in 1983, this book is set to impact upon the book-buying public, eager for accounts of this period of World War history.

The acclaimed historian and author of The Gathering Storm continues his in-depth study of Northern European naval warfare during WWII.

This WWII pictorial history sheds light on the armored fighting vehicles built and deployed by Italy, Hungary and other Axis powers on the Eastern Front.

The V 1, or Doodlebug or Flying-bomb came into use in June 1944 and, together with the V 2 Rocket, was Hitlers final hope in face of the advancing Allied forces sweeping across Europe towards Germany.

This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft to be found in aviation museums throughout the world.

The Battlefield General game books put you in command of the forces engaged in some of history's most famous battles.

This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War.

The Vought F4U was the best carrier based fighter of WW2.

A new assessment of the life of one of the most famous and controversial airmen of the Second World War, this book covers Guy Gibson's sometimes troubled upbringing and the impact on him of his time at St Edward's School, Oxford.

John Severne joined the RAF in 1944 and gained his wings two months after World War II ended.

An in-depth account of the invasion of Crete by Nazi Germany during World War II, the courageous civilian resistance, and the Allies' devastating defeat.

This is the story of one of the RAF's oldest and most distinguished heavy bomber squadrons in WW2, although an outline history of the unit since it was formed in WW1 and its post-war history are included.

For much of World War II England provided the only western European base from which the British and American air forces could take the war into Nazi-occupied Europe and Germany itself.

September 1941 approval was given for the formation of two long-range Air-Sea Rescue squadrons.

The history of weapons and warfare is usually written from the point of view of the battles fought and the tactics used.

Following the landings in Normandy, one of the Allies main concerns was how to supply the expanding beachhead.

A career pilot's memoir of flying fighter jets through two wars and through the evolution of aviation technology.

The six years of prolonged world-wide conflict spawned some 340 serving generals in the British Army.

The Royal Air Force's 11 Group played a leading role in the Battle of Britain.

In Spring 1945 one final hurdle faced the American and British Armies under Ike's supreme command - the Rhine.

This is a wartime escape memoir that ranks with the finest.

Dramatic photographs of Nazi Germany's shocking Ardennes Offensive that nearly turned the tide of World War II-from the author of In Pursuit of Hitler.

A decorated British officer's wrenching and inspiring firsthand account of the worst battle of the Burma campaign.

This is the story of Allied fighter pilots and the part they played in all the principal operational theatres of World War II.

This memoir of a Soviet POW's escape from a Nazi concentration camp is a remarkable account of cruelty and courage during WWII.

The RAF Regiment was created in the early years of World War II for the active dedicated defense of RAF airfields and installations.

Major General Sir Roy Redgrave has enjoyed an unusual, some might say eccentric, life.

In an attempt to outflank the German Gustav Line running across Italy, Operation SHINGLE was launched on January 22nd 1944.

This pictorial history shows the full extent of captured foreign aircraft used by Nazi Germany during WWII.

A history and guide to the historic British airfields where American bombers had to be ready to go at a moment's notice-includes photos.

Early in WW2, King George VI was deeply impressed by the heroic deeds of servicemen out of the front line and civilian non-combatants in acts connected with the war such as bomb disposal and rescues after air raids.

"e;A quite enlightening book that discusses the most important group of heavy cruisers serving during WW2 and how the type evolved.

A celebration of the renowned WWII aircraft and the aviators who flew them-includes rare photographs.

In early 1942, shipping losses in the Atlantic threatened Britain's very survival.

The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s.

Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served.

The inter-war years between 1918 and 1939 saw the newly created Royal Air Force fighting for its very existence politically, being dispatched to the remotest corners of the British Empire and its Protectorates in various policing roles and then finally engaged in a headlong rush to modernize in the face of the new German Fascist regime that was threatening British and European freedom.

A detailed account of "e;the last great set piece operation carried out by the western Allies during the Second World War .

Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fuslier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of an Australian killed in action at Messines in 1917; the action in 1914 that initiated the birth of the infamous 'Birdcage' on the western edge of Ploegsteert Wood and other stories of interest to enthusiasts of the Great War.

"e;One of Britain's best-known aviation historians .

A comprehensive history of the Allied attack on German-occupied France during World War II, examining its planning, execution, and failure.

Follow the infamous 2nd SS Panzer Division on its march through Southwest France to the Massacre at Oradour with this illustrated battlefield guide.

Drawing upon a new international archive of the Second World War, the support of veterans world-wide and from archives overseas, the author uses previously unpublished letters, diaries, photographs and reminiscences to tell the story of D Day in a way which brings the reader closer to the actual experience.