Military and defence strategy

One of only two survivors of the famous Cockleshell Hero raid, Bill Sparks' war and postwar career has never before been told in full.

Thanks to the perseverance and editorial effort of his son Allan, Jim Hunter's splendid war memoirs of flying and captivity can now be enjoyed by a wider audience.

Ken Adams, as a trained medic, was sent out to the Far East and immediately saw action on the Malay Peninsula.

The WWI military expert presents his authoritative study of the German Army's operations during the First Battle of Ypres.

'Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.

All is fair in love and war.

A fully illustrated survey of the Soviet infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.

Time's running out for The Tobacco Girls in this penultimate books in this bestselling series from Lizzie Lane.

Our story is about the genesis and evolution of these phantoms and men-who-never-were, these artists and magicians at the front line who operated in stealth and secrecy.

On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur.

A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met.

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War.

Work played a central role in Nazi ideology and propaganda, and even today there remain some who still emphasize the supposedly positive aspects of the regime s labor policies, ignoring the horrific and inhumane conditions they produced.

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia.

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

In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies.

Prior to Hitler s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis.

A rich and accessible introduction to the role of the German railway system in the Holocaust, a topic that remains understudied even today.

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz.

Written between 500 BCE and 700 CE, these seven texts have inspired generals for millennia, both in China and the wider world.

A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met.

The Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series deals with a wide range of issues relating to global environmental hazards, natural and man-made disasters, and approaches to disaster risk reduction.

The Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series deals with a wide range of issues relating to global environmental hazards, natural and man-made disasters, and approaches to disaster risk reduction.

While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal.

Between 1994-2014, Israels security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world.

Between 1994-2014, Israels security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world.

Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the 'war on terror'.

Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the 'war on terror'.

The world's fastest growing continent demographically, Africa displays nearly all the features of today's global security challenges: armed conflict, terrorism, irregular migration, organized crime, great power competition, public discontent, and economic turbulence.

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

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.

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.

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?

Choice Outstanding TitleThroughout its existence, the Red Army was viewed as a formidable threat.

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

In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies.

Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in history.

Political instability is nearly always accompanied by fuller prisons, and this was particularly true during the long Second World War, when military mobilization, social disorder, wrenching political changes, and shifting national boundaries swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened the carceral reach of the state.

Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans.

Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians.

Available in paperback for the first time, this book assesses the strains within the 'Special Relationship' between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence during the Korean War.

A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape.

A memoir of a graduate of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School and her experience during World War II.

A thorough introduction to the German Navy's advanced designs during World War II, exploring lesser-known weapons, submarines, and high-speed vessels.

A thorough introduction to the German Navy's advanced designs during World War II, exploring lesser-known weapons, submarines, and high-speed vessels.

An illustrated history of one brigade of German World War II armored fighting vehicles and the action they saw along the Eastern Front.

'A fascinating anthology which sheds new light on the Bletchley Park story and shows that there is still more to tell.

'A fascinating anthology which sheds new light on the Bletchley Park story and shows that there is still more to tell.

A look at the truth behind the story of organized crime's role in World War II.

The true and dramatic testimony of a German grenadier during World War II.